Among them was the Beaty Swamp tornado, a violent F4 that struck shortly after midnight CST on May 11, 1933, in Overton County, Tennessee, killing 35 people, injuring 150 others, and devastating the unincorporated communities of Beaty Swamp and Bethsaida. The storm was the second-deadliest tornado in the history of Middle Tennessee, even though it struck a sparsely populated, rural area.
The Beaty Swamp tornado, an F4 that struck Overton County, Tennessee, on May 11, 1933, near midnight CST, caused 35 deaths and injured 150 people. It destroyed unincorporated areas of Beaty Swamp and Bethsaida. This storm was the second-deadliest in Middle Tennessee history despite its rural location.