Murfreesboro is about 30 miles from Nashville. A tornado was also reported in Western Kentucky, per The Kentucky Post.
Several Twitterers in Murfreesboro confirmed the tornadoes, and provided live tweets during the storm.
andde I just walked my ass in walmart and they said they are under tornado warning. I said hell nah and left.. the weather crazy I'm soaked haha
phillipmaddox I saw the tornado dude. It was freakin huge. We got super lucky. They shut down 24 over here. Cars flipped with people in them
lisasasse A tornado just hit the neighborhood behind our house, thank God for His protection!
metonymy4sale . .another tornado just tore through murfreesboro . houses are 'gone' . absolute chaos ...
some_coreopsis They're saying at least ten houses were destroyed by the tornado. Not my area of town, thank the Lord. All is safe out here.
brandon_felder Again, for those wondering. Yes, I am fine. I did see the tornado out front of my work place which was awesome and scary.
Several twitterers in Murfreesboro found out about the tornadoes through sirens.
semicaustic Crap. Are those tornado sirens?! I can't tell. I don't know what they sound like! But it doesn't sound like anything else I've heard.
natetallman Tornado sirens going of. I'm out and about.
zhak just woke up to tornado sirens! o_O Woooooo!
scottiemills just heard the sirens go off in Murfreesboro and a guy say "SEEK SHELTER NOW!" If I never see you tweets again.. I love you.
Some tweeted a link to a YouTube video with footage of one tornado:
