The Super Tuesday Tornado Outbreak was not a single tornado. 2008 Super Tuesday Tornado Outbreak – Counting the Losses Few Americans can forget the 2008 Super Tuesday Tornado Outbreak, the deadly tornado outbreak that affected the southern part of the United States and the lower Ohio Valley. Super Tuesday voters in Tennessee were rerouted to other polling stations after deadly tornadoes ripped through the state.

This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate. It was an outbreak of 86 tornadoes across a large portion of the southeastern U.S. Deadliest tornadoes in Tennessee since the April 27, 2011 Tornado Outbreak in East Tennessee Worst tornadoes in Middle Tennessee since the February 5, 2008 Super Tuesday Outbreak 10 tornadoes touched down across Tennessee from the late evening on … A powerful low pressure system combined with moist and unstable atmospheric conditions to produce this now-infamous tornado outbreak. The tornadoes killed 57 people, effecting large metropolitan areas like Memphis and Jackson, Tennessee. The tornadoes started on Super Tuesday as twenty-four states […] Tre Hargett, the Tennessee secretary of … I. At the time, it was the worst tornado outbreak since 1985. Brett Carlsen/Getty Images Related The 5 February 2008 (Super Tuesday) tornado outbreak ranks as the deadliest tornado outbreak in 23 years for the United States, and the deadliest since 3-4 April 1974 in the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys (Fig. The tornadoes also hit populated areas. Eighty-four tornadoes occurred during the course of the outbreak, killing 57 people directly in Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Tornado intensity is measured by the Fujita scale, which ranges from … World Bulletin / News Desk. Super Outbreak of 1974, also called Tornado Super Outbreak of 1974, series of tornadoes that caused severe damage to the Midwestern, southern, and eastern United States and Ontario, Canada, on April 3–4, 1974.One of the largest outbreaks of tornadoes ever recorded, it consisted of 148 tornadoes and resulted in more than $1 billion in damage and 330 deaths. The power of the twisters during the Super Outbreak of 1974 was truly epic. A tornado passed through the Nashville area early Tuesday morning which left Putnam County with 18 killed and 38 unaccounted for. It has since been eclipsed by the April 2011 Super Outbreak, in which 348 people were killed. Tennessee was hit hard on the evening of the Super Tuesday tornado outbreak of Feb. 5, 2008. Yeah. The 2011 Tornado Super Outbreak by contrast, had 362 confirmed tornadoes. 1).