2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Jul 31, 7:55 PM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 855 PM CDT THU JUL 31 2003 ISOLATED SHOWERS/TSTMS CONTINUE IN THE MID STATE AT THIS HOUR. THESE MAY LINGER PAST MIDNIGHT BUT EXPECT THEM TO BE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN. WILL UPDATE AND MENTION ISOLATED OVERNIGHT WITH A 10 POP. EXPECT AREAS OF FOG TO FORM AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH CLEAR SKIES... LIGHT WINDS AND DAMP GROUND IN PLACE. .BNA...NONE. BOYD 01
TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075>080-093>097-011030- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 530 AM CDT THU JUL 31 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE TODAY AND PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THE MAIN PROBLEM FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREA. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO OUR AREA ON SATURDAY AND CREATE ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW OF WHICH COULD BECOME SEVERE. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS A POSSIBILITY ON SATURDAY. 19
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several homes were flooded with 3 feet of water in them along Gallatin Pike. The flash flood event started on July 31, 1128 PM CST and ended on August 1, 0100 AM CST.
Trees were blown down.
Water was in the basement of a home, and the well was overflowing.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, August 2003
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: 5333931, 5333932, 5333933.