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Tornado rips through Blackman, North Murfreesboro

By: TMP Reports

Posted: Friday, April 10, 2009 12:56 pm

Tornado rips through Blackman, North Murfreesboro | TORNADO, weather

One of the tornadoes passed over Broad Street near Toots. TMP photo by Michelle Willard

Emergency crews were responding to multiple reports of tornadoes touching down in Gresham Lane, Riverview subdivision and Medical Center Parkway.

Editor Mike West saw a funnel cloud passing over Trinity United Methodist Church on Jones Boulevard near Northfield Boulevard.

Power is out in the area.

Police and other emergency personnel are advising people to stay home, get off the streets in the areas the storms struck. Emergency personnel have having trouble responding due to the traffic.

Police responded to people trapped in houses, a car caught up in the tornado and destroyed homes in the Riverview subdivision off Thompson Lane.

Northwest Broad Street is closed, as is Medical Center Parkway at Interstate 24. Two separate tornadoes were spotted in the area of Old Salem Pike and Highway 96 with sightings on Windrow Road.

At 12:20 p.m. heavy hail was reported at NW Broad and state Route 840 with officers reporting that the tornado was following Highway 96.

A touchdown was reported in Blackman as the one storm approached I-24.

Touchdowns reported on Sulphur Springs, Regency Park, Highland Park and at New Vision Church.

A funnel cloud was spotted over Fortress Boulevard.

Multiple structures are believed destroyed on Gresham Lane and Wilkinson Pike near The Avenue Murfreesboro.

Significant damage reported at Haynes Drive and Sulphur Springs. Residents pinned inside a house on Battleground. Gas leaks are reported at some of the homes in the area and the Murfreesboro Fire Department is checking home.

Murfreesboro Police calls in second shift.

Report of resident possibly trapped from Manus Road in Woodbury.

Houses are down in Indian Creek.
Burn injuries reported on Memorial-Thompson area.

3501 Sanford house half demolished.

Power outages widespread on Memorial, especially near Osborne.

Cell phone service is intermitent. Penny Lane – Meadow Lake so far no injuries – report of problems 1:38 Search and rescue team: Wilkinson be shut down at Thompson

1:40 Tomahawk someone trapped in residence

Problems on Cornwall Court 1:41 Possible gas leak on Gresham Lane

1:42 Haynes at Memorial and Thompson – going house by house checking for trapped residents–

1:43 Highland Park – gas line being shut off

1:45 Tedder Boulevard several houses demolished in that area

1:46 Unit heading to Battleground

1:47 - Person may be trapped in house on Avon.

2:10 - Police reported personal injury auto accidents at Memorial and Thompson Lane and on NW Broad Street.

2:22 - Officials were investigating reports that the tornado touched down in the Asbury Lane area.

StoneCrest Medical Center in Smyrna reports its emergency room is on alert and ready to accept patients.

Requested authorities check the area for damage and injuries.

EMS requested at 1307 Tomahawk for back and neck injuries

Electric line possibly down apparently on Gresham Lane. 2:26 p.m. Fire trucks being dispatched to Cason Kennedy Nursing Building on the MTSU campus. That incident wasn't storm related, authorities report.

Watch for updates.

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Member Opinions:

By: smans on 4/10/09
Does anyone have any idea of what kind of damage was done to the Blackman Community in Murfreesboro?

By: mikewest on 4/10/09
We have reporters in the area watch for updates.

By: theredbaron on 4/10/09
Can you find out any information at the airport? Looks like the storm went quite close to the airport.

By: smans on 4/10/09
Well, there are confirmed fatalities in Blackman area. Also in other parts of Murfreesboro.

By: mikewest on 4/10/09
No fatalities have been confirmed by police, EMS or MTMC.

By: lpoole on 4/11/09
What an excellent job done by the news staff at the Post! Thank you!

By: Boo on 4/11/09
Excellent coverage by the Post! If people Not hit by this tornado would get their news from the Post and stay away from the damaged areas it would not tie up traffic, making it hard for medical crews, law officers, utility workers, and others who NEED to be there to get there. Stay at home, read the news, spend your time figuring out how to help, not how to get in the way.

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