NWS Forecast Office Nashville, TN

On March 26, 1944...A F3 tornado moves NE across Lawrence and
northern Giles Counties, passing 1 mi SE Lynnville. A widow and four
of her six children were killed in a home near Lynnville. A neighbor,
500 yards away, was unaware of the tragedy until an injured child
wandered into the house at daybreak. The mother was thrown 700 yards.
A book from the house was carried three miles.