1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 5, 1:00 PM CST, 4 hours 57 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 200 PM CDT SUN AUG 5 2001 CURRENTLY...SURFACE AND UA ANALYSIS PLACING WEAK BOUNDARY EXTENDING UP ACROSS THE GULF COAST STATES AND INTO MIDDLE AND E TN FROM TROPICAL SYSTEM. WV LOOPS ALSO SHOWING DEEPER MOISTURE ACROSS ATLANTIC/GULF COASTS SPREADING NW INTO THE MID-STATE. FEW SHWRS/ TSTMS BREAKING OUT ACROSS THE S. UPCOMING FORECAST SWINGS LARGELY ON WORKINGS OF NERN GULF TROPICAL SYSTEM. MID/UPPER LEVEL RIDGE AXIS ACROSS THE NATIONS MID-SECTION THIS AFTERNOON PROGGED TO ORIENT ITSELF MORE-LESS W-E ACROSS THE OH/ NERN TN VALLEY BY THE END OF THE PERIOD. TROP SYSTEM FORECAST TO MOVE ON SHORE NW FL VICINITY TOWARD 12Z MON BUT SCENARIO SEEMINGLY WILL BLOCK SYSTEM/DEEPER MOISTURE FROM MOVING VERY FAR N...LEAVING REMNANTS TO WOBBLE AROUND GA/AL/MS VICINITY THRU 00Z WED. A FEW WEAK LL BOUNDARIES AND WEAK TONGUES OF MOISTURE WILL ROTATE ACROSS THE MID-S REGION THRU THE PERIOD BUT OVERALL...CHANCES FOR PRECIP ACROSS THE CWA WILL REMAIN ON LOW SIDE...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE NERN TIER. EXPECT TO CONTINUE SMALL POPS RUNNING ACROSS THE N...AS THEY ARE. CHANCES BETTER ACROSS THE S...ESPECIALLY AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS WITH HELP OF HEATING. EXPECT TO CONTINUE SCATTERED PRECIP TREND THERE. BNA BB 72/92/72/92 1212 CSV BB 66/86/65/86 1212 07 .BNA...NONE
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Few trees and limbs were down. An outbuilding was destroyed which fell on a car on Estes Rd.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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