The Morgan County Community Foundation, an affiliate fund of the East Tennessee Foundation, has announced $40,000 in 12 local grants for nonprofits serving Morgan County. These grant awards were ...

WARTBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — Morgan County is all too familiar with severe weather, including tornadoes. It has been over a month since an EF2 tornado ripped through the Deer Lodge and Lancing ...

Oak Ridge Anderson Decades old checks from Deer Lodge business found in Anderson County after tornado hits Morgan Co. The checks are dated back to 1992 and were issued by Williams Market and Deli.

Several tornadoes have touched down in Morgan County since 1965, including an F3 in 2002, which killed seven people some 20 miles southeast of Deer Lodge and an EF1 tornado last year in Sunbright.

The Morgan County tornado – with a preliminary intensity of EF2, according to the National Weather Service – slammed the small communities of Deer Lodge and Sunbright around 8:27 p.m. and ...

Another tornado also struck farther east in the state. The National Weather Service confirmed Friday that Deer Lodge in Morgan County was hit by a tornado.

The tornado tore through the Deer Lodge area, killing at least two people, who the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office said were mother and daughter.

Morgan County Sheriff Potter earlier said in his advisory that people “avoid travel to the Deer Lodge area and Highway 27, Sunbright area until further notice” and to “stay away from downed ...

Following the death of at least two people and several people being injured, the National Weather Service has confirmed a tornado touched down in Morgan County on Thursday.

The tornado in Deer Lodge in Morgan County had maximum winds of 135 mph (217 kph) and was rated as an EF2, which is considered “significant” on the Enhanced Fujita scale.

A mother and daughter from the same household were killed when the storm passed through the Deer Lodge and Sunbright areas of Morgan County on Thursday night, according to a social media post by ...