Thunderstorm Wind, Maury
- When
- August 2, 5:07 PM CST
- Where
- Maury County, 5 mi S of Spring Hill
- Measured
- 57 kt (66 mph)
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 35.683, -86.933
Amateur radio report of a tree down.
Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 2, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
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 Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 2, 2:09 PM CST, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 2:09 PM CST, 2 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 309 PM CDT THU AUG 2 2001 CURRENTLY...ISOLATED SHOWERS HAVE DEVELOPED IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY. TYPICAL SUMMER DAY...WITH TEMPS RISING INTO THE LOWER 90S...MIDDLE 80S PLATEAU. DEW POINTS FROM THE LOWER 70S NORTHWEST...TO THE UPPER 60S SOUTHEAST MIDDLE. SKIES ARE PARTLY SUNNY WITH THE AFTERNOON CUMULUS. SFC TROUGH FROM SRN IA...TO NRN IL...TO MICHIGAN SHOULD START SEEING MORE CONVECTION POPPING THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. ALSO...THERE IS AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY MOVING SOUTHWARD OUT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS...AS CONVECTION CONTINUES TO PLOD SOUTH FROM LAST NIGHT. INTERESTING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN THE EASTERN GULF OF MEXICO...WHICH COULD AFFECT OUR WEATHER DOWN THE ROAD. FORECAST CONCERNS...PRECIP CHANCES. AFOREMENTIONED THUNDERSTORM/OUTFLOW BOUNDARY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS WILL NOT AFFECT MIDDLE TENNESSEE...AS THE NEW CONVECTION IS FEEDING OFF THE BETTER SOUTHWEST FLOW FROM MISSOURI. FOR TONIGHT...WE CAN EXPECT A FEW ISOLATED SHOWERS EARLY TONIGHT...THEN THE BOUNDARY CURRENTLY STRETCHED FROM SRN IA...TO NRN ILLINOIS AND MICHIGAN WIL DROP SOUTWARD INTO THE NW MIDSTATE BY DAYBREAK. NOT EXPECTING ALOT OF CONVECTION...AS THE FORCING...DYNAMICS AND SFC CONVERGENCE ARE UNIMPRESSIVE. MOISTURE AHEAD OF THE BOUNDARY WILL BE ON THE RISE... AND AN INCREASE IN CLOUDS WIL LIKELY MOVE INTO THE NRN MIDSTATE. THE ACTUAL BOUNDARY WILL BE COMING THROUGH TOMORROW DURING THE DAY...THEN STALL OUT BY TOMORROW NIGHT JUST SOUTHEAST OF THE AREA. THE CONVERGENCE...MOISTURE AND INCREASE IN THE LOW TO MID LEVEL INSTABILITY WILL INDUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. MAYBE SOME ISOLATED ACTIVITY AROUND TOMORROW NIGHT BEFORE THE BOUNDARY SLIDES SOUTHEAST. BEST CONVEREGNCE REMAINS NEAREST THE BOUNDARY...IN SOUTHEAST MID TN ON SATURDAY...AND WILL LEAVE BEST POPS THERE. SUNDAY...THROUGH THE REST OF THE FORECAST WILL BE INFLUENCED BY THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM SPINNING OFF THE GULF. THIS SYSTEM IS PROJECTED TO MOVE WESTWARD ACROSS THE GULF...DRAGGING AN INVERTED TROUGH ALONG WITH IT. OUR WINDS WILL SHIFT FROM NORTH TO SOUTHEAST...ALTHOUGH BEST CONVERGENCE LOOKS TO REMAIN ALONG THE IMMEDIATE GULF COAST. HENCE...BEST RAIN CHANCES WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL BE THERE. DO NOT HOLD MUCH STOCK IN GETTING RAIN IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ATTM. WILL NOT BITE YET. TYPICAL SUMMERTIME TEMPS ARE IN STORE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS... AS AXIS OF WARMER H8 AIR REMAINS OUT TO THE WEST...HIGHS WILL BE FLIRTING WITH 90 WEST AND MIDDLE TO UPPER 80S EAST. NO REAL CHANGES IN AIR MASS...SO LOWS WILL GENERALLY RANGE IN THE UPPER 60S TO LOWER 70S THROUGH SATURDAY. INCREASE IN CLOUDS TONIGHT MAY RESULT IN SOMEWHAT HIGHER MINS TONIGHT. HERE ARE THE NUMBERS... BNA 73/90/71/89 2321 CSV 66/83/65/84 1431 .BNA...NONE DICKSON 15
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:07 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood in Illinois, August 2, 2001
- Heat in Texas, August 2, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 2, 2001
- Flash Flood in Florida, August 2, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, August 2, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, August 2, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Iowa, August 2, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 2, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 2, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, August 2, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, August 2, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, August 2, 2001
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, August 2001
Sources
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: 5264863.