4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 14, 3:00 PM CST, 4 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 400 PM CDT MON JUL 14 2003 A FEW SHOWERS IN SOUTH MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND THE SOUTHERN CUMBERLAND PLATEAU AT THIS TIME IS ENOUGH TO KEEP UP A SLIGHT RAIN CHANCE GOING THIS EVENING. OTHERWISE...SKIES WILL BECOME MOSTLY CLEAR TONIGHT. A SHORTWAVE MOVING SOUTHEAST APPROACHES MIDDLE TENNESSEE TUESDAY NIGHT. AHEAD OF IT...ETA MODEL FAMILY SIGNIFICANTLY DESTABILIZES THE MIDDLE TENNESSEE ATMOSPHERE TUESDAY AFTERNOON...ENOUGH FOR A SCATTERED RAIN CHANCE. COULD BE AN MCS MOVING IN LAST TUESDAY NIGHT. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE MOVES INTO THE GREAT LAKES ON WEDNESDAY. IT LOOKS PROBABLE THAT A FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVES IN ON WEDNESDAY...AND THIS FRONT MAY PULL UP STATIONARY (LIKE IT/S PREDECESSOR). THUS... MORE CLOUDS ARE IN THE FORECAST. NGM MODEL LOOKS TOO DRY...WITH FWC POP VALUES CONSIDERED LOW TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THEREAFTER TEMPERATURES LOOK TO WARM INTO THE LOWER TO MID 90S OUTSIDE OF THE PLATEAU...BY THE WEEKEND. THE NEXT BEST CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION COMES WITH ANOTHER FRONT...THAT MAY PUSH IN EARLY NEXT WEEK. BNA 070/090 072/089 070 -33 CSV 064/084 066/084 065 -33 .BNA....NONE. 04
TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075>080-093>097-151030- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 530 AM CDT MON JUL 14 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS UNLIKELY. 07
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Sheriff's office reported water covering Highway 30 at Laurel Creek.
Newspaper story about strong thunderstorm winds causing extensive roof damage to the old Sunbeam building where Collins Construction is now located. Four homes had minor damage.
Trees uprooted and sheds were overturned.
Newspaper story about a front porch blown off a home located at Littleton Branch Rd. The porch landed in a nearby pond.
Large tree limbs were covering a portion of U.S. Highway 231 south.
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, July 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: 5369935, 5369938, 5369936, 5369939, 5369937.