<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ut1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">A similar storm hit the Clinchport/Speers Ferry area three or four years ago. You could track the direct path by the line of broken trees, some of them three or four feet thick. Thankfully, the damage was mostly in the wooded areas along US 23.</div></div>

That storm was the one that actually produced the tornado in Lee County (May, 2004), started from Flatwoods and tracked up near Jonesville. I think the NWS said it could have briefly touched down in other areas throughout the storm's path (and may have produced multiple funnels). If I'm not mistaken that storm was the same one that the public reported seeing a funnel cloud over Bristol from too.