1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 10, 1:30 PM CST, 6 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 230 PM CDT FRI AUG 10 2001 A COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM THE OH VALLEY TO NW AR WILL MAKE VERY SLOW SWD PROGRESS THIS WEEKEND MOVING INTO THE NRN PART OF THE CWA SUNDAY...THEN INTO THE SRN PART OF THE CWA MONDAY. EXPECT THE FRONT TO STALL OVER THE SRN HALF OF THE CWA THROUGH MUCH OF THE COMING WEEK. STILL BELIEVE THAT AVN/MRF IS BRINGING THE FRONT TOO FAR TO THE SOUTH. ECMWF AND UKMET HAVE A MORE REASONABLE SOLUTION. THE STEADY RAIN FROM ORIGINAL 850-700MB THETA-E ADVECTION OVER THE SRN CWA HAS MOVED S OF THE AREA. A LOT OF LEFTOVER CLOUDS ARE STILL AROUND KEEPING TEMPS COOL. MODELS INDICATE MORE THETA-E ADVECTION AT 850MB AROUND 06Z TNT. WILL HAVE TO KEEP PCPN CHANCES THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND AS AREAS OF THETA-E ADVECTION DEVELOP AND WEAK WAVES MOVE EWD ALONG THE FRONT. PRELIM VALUES MEM 76/88/76/88 4544 MKL 74/88/73/88 4544 JBR 75/88/74/88 4544 TUP 74/88/74/88 4544 .MEG...NONE. 012
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:27 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A lightning strike caused a 10" water main to be blown apart in two places. A pick-up truck, 2 televisions and 3 phones were also damaged by the lightning.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, August 2001
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5265893.