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6A SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2009 RUTHERFORD TORNADOES THE TENNESSEAN mtmmmbBM" 1 teLF-- 1 ABOVE: Carrie Warren embraces her boyfriend in BHHBH I LYTLE JV front of her house, which was destroyed by a tor- IHHII I SQUARE I nado Friday, daily news journal jl iBl AT LEFT: A funnel cloud is seen from Lytle Square in "JH I I Murfreesboro. aaron Thompson daily news journal DEVASTATION A Murfreesboro police officer surveys an area of Manson Pike in Murfreesboro where a tornado swept through Friday, jae s. lee the tennessean TENNESSEE'S KILLER STORMS Some of the state's worst storms: March 21, 1952: 38 killed in West Tennessee, most of them in Chester County. April 3, 1974: Multiple tornadoes in the 1974 "super outbreak" kill 47 people across the state and injure 774. May 18, 1995: 56 tornadoes roar across Tennessee, killing three.

Property damage costs millions of dollars, including widespread destruction at RiverGate Mall. April 16, 1998: Tornadoes tear through Nashville, heavily damaging neighborhoods in East Nashville. The damage totals $176 million. Officials estimate 20,000 trees were leveled, including hundreds at The Hermitage, home of President Andrew Jackson. Jan.

22, 1999: A monster storm destroys the Clarksville courthouse, dozens of historic downtown buildings and two large churches. Austin Peay State University suffers extensive damage. Nov. 11, 2002: Two lines of storms churn through West and Middle Tennessee, killing 18. Damage is spread from Tipton County, at the state's southwestern edge, to the Cumberland Mountains in East Tennessee.

Sixteen counties are declared disaster areas. May 4, 2003: Middle and West Tennessee were slammed with tornadoes, killing 11 people in Madison County. Parts of downtown Jackson were leveled. April 2, 2006: Tornadoes and hailstorms leave 11 people dead and destruction across West and Middle Tennessee, with Gallatin and Hendersonville hit hardest. Feb.

5, 2008: Tornadoes plow through West and Middle Tennessee, damaging several counties and killing 33 people. Hundreds of homes and businesses are destroyed. The hardest-hit areas are Madison, Sumner and Macon counties. SOURCES: National Weather Service's Nashville office online database of Middle Tennessee tornadoes; The Tornado Project (www.tornadoproject.com); Tennessean archives; National Weather Service's Bobby Boyd Karolyn Lane, 14, left, and her friend Leslie Hibdon react as they look at tornado damage in the Blackman community of Murfreesboro. jae s.

lee the tennessean Businesses on Thompson Lane in Murfreesboro sustained significant damage from Friday's twister. AARON THOMPSON DAILY NEWS JOURNAL.