Tennessee Tornado

Susan Morton looks for items to salvage in a second-story bedroom Thursday, May 15, 2003, at her home in Knoxville, Tenn. A series of severe thunderstorms swept across east Tennessee on Thursday, uprooting trees, damaging homes and causing power outages that left thousands in the dark.

A Rural/Metro firefighter from Station 28 is overcome by heat while fighting this fire Thursday, May 15, 2003, in Knoxville, Tenn. No one in the home was injured in the fire and the firefighter is fine. A series of severe thunderstorms packing heavy rain, hail and wind swept across east Tennessee on Thursday, causing scattered power outages and damage.

From left, Charlie Leatherwood helps City of Knoxville Service Department employees Tommy Peace and Goble Bell try to remove a downed power line from Wade Davies' car after a large oak tree fell, taking a power pole with it, during a storm Thursday, May 15, 2003, in Knoxville, Tenn. Davies, who was driving the week-old car when the tree fell, was not hurt.

Tobler Lane in Knoxville, Tenn., is blocked by a tree downed in a heavy storm, late Thursday afternoon, May 15, 2003. A series of severe thunderstorms packing heavy rain, hail and wind swept across east Tennessee on Thursday, causing scattered power outages and damage.

City of Knoxville Public Service department employees Tommy Peace, left, and Dustin Hammond use their chain saws to clear away the branches of an oak tree that fell across Kingston Pike on Thursday, May 15, 2003, in Knoxville, Tenn.

Damage from a tornado is shown Thursday, May 15, 2003, in Jamestown, Ind. The tornado, which was determined by the National Weather Service as an F-1 tornado, touched down Wednesday night.