AccuWeather's Kristina Shalhoup explains how December can still be a month of severe storms and tornadoes.
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00:00 It is secondary severe weather season. Remember folks, generally through the fall and early winter, we see a ramp up in severe activity and the month of December.
00:11 The past three years in a row, we've really seen that severe weather not just become problematic, but sadly deadly.
00:18 Starting in 2021, December 10th and 11th, we had a horrible outbreak, which included a tornado that absolutely destroyed Mayfield, Kentucky, sadly leading to dozens of deaths across Mayfield.
00:29 Now in 2022, there was December 12th through 15th, where the South Central and Gulf Coast saw a tremendous number of tornadoes, many of which were damaging and again even deadly.
00:39 Now just this past weekend, on Saturday, December 9th, we had another outbreak, this one in Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky, which sadly led to six people dying as a result.
00:49 One of those tornadoes that became deadly was this EF3 traveling through Montgomery County, through the city of Clarksville, and then up into Southern Kentucky.
00:57 The second tornado, which sadly became deadly, was here in Davidson County around the town of Madison.
01:03 This was an EF2 tornado that tore through Davidson County.
01:06 Now I do want to mention in between here, reports coming from Springfield, Tennessee.
01:11 This is in Robertson County and we actually have viewer video. Look at this video from Chris Thurman.
01:18 I'm going to be quiet for a second so you can just observe. Listen.
01:21 "Poor Jesus, please. Poor Jesus, please." "Tornado! Take cover! Tornado!"
01:29 Just a terrifying situation in Springfield. Chris said that this tornado was actually moving right toward his neighborhood.
01:35 And about 30 seconds after this video ended, he and his family were in the basement taking cover and the tornado just skirted their house.
01:43 Just another reason why, remember friends, you always want to make sure that you have that safe space in mind so you can take quick action when severe weather is near you.