4 flash flood, 1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 9, 9:15 AM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1015 AM CDT THU AUG 9 2001 AN AREA OF HEAVY RAINFALL HAS MOVED INTO THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE COVERING WAYNE PERRY HICKMAN LEWIS MAURY LAWRENCE AND GILES COUNTIES. RAINFALL RATES OF ALMOST 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE DETECTED BY DOPPLER RADAR OVER PARTS OF WAYNE COUNTY. WE ARE WATCHING THIS AREA CLOSELY FOR POSSIBLE STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS. REMAINDER OF THE AREA HAS CLOUDY SKIES WITH SCATTERED CONVECTION. TEMPS SHOULD MAKE IT INTO THE MID TO UPPER 80S. ZONE PACKAGE LOOKS GOOD WITH POSSIBLE UPDATE FOR THE SOUTHWEST PORTION. .BNA...NONE. JLM
TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075>080-093>097-101030- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 530 AM CDT THU AUG 9 2001 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AGAIN TODAY ACROSS ALL OF THE MIDSTATE...AS THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL STORM BARRY REMAIN SITUATED JUST EAST OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MAINLY AFFECT THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS...AND WILL BE CAPABLE OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. PATCHY LOW CLOUDS AND FOG WILL ALSO BE SCATTERED ABOUT THIS MORNING. ANY SIGNIFICANT RESTRICTIONS TO VISIBILITIES WILL REMAIN ISOLATED THROUGH SUNRISE...AND WILL NOT POSE TOO MUCH OF A PROBLEM FOR MORNING COMMUTERS. ACTIVATION OF SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. DICKSON 15
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:30 UTC.
4 flash flood, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a storage building on Verona Caney Rd. The building was engulfed in flames in a matter of minutes. The storage building was located about 100 feet from a house.
Highway 31 about 8 miles north of Pulaski was temporarily flooded.
Industrial Boulevard in Crossville was impassable due to high water. Other general street flooding was occurring.
Law enforcement reported Wilson Avenue in front of Crockett's Restaurant blocked by high water.
Law enforcement reported water over the road at the intersection of Highway 110 and Scott's Orchard Rd.
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: 5264947, 5264943, 5264944, 5264945, 5264946.