5 flash flood, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 5 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 Aug 2, 1:30 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 230 PM CDT MON AUG 2 2004 .DISCUSSION... SCATTERED SHOWERS/STORMS HAVE POPPED UP THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY OVER PLATEAU. OTHERWISE...PARTLY SUNNY CONDITIONS WERE OBSERVED. LOOK FOR THESE SHOWERS/STORMS TO DIMINISH EARLY EVENING WITH LOSS OF HEATING. CONVECTION OVER MO AND IL WILL LIKELY DIMINISH...BUT WHATEVER REMAINS SHOULD HEAD SOUTH INTO AR. SURFACE RIDGE FROM OHIO VALLEY TO LOWER MS VALLEY WILL SLIDE EAST ACROSS TN TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. UPPER LEVEL RIDGING WILL BUILD FROM THE WEST. AS HEIGHTS INCREASE...EXPECT HIGH TEMPERATURES TO BE 2-3 DEGREES WARMER ON TUESDAY. WILL NOT MENTION POPS IN FORECAST. MODELS SUGGEST THAT AXIS OF MOISTURE FLUX CONVERGENCE EVIDENT OVER OUR EASTERN COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON WILL SHIFT EASTWARD AND DIMINISH TOMORROW. STILL...CANNOT RULE OUT AN ISOLATED CELL OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN ON TUESDAY. ANOTHER POTENTIAL FORECAST COMPLICATION COULD BE LEFTOVER CONVECTION FROM POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT MIDWEST MCS DEVELOPMENT. CANNOT KNOW AT THIS POINT...HOPEFULLY ANY LINGERING CONVECTION WILL BE SQUASHED BY RIDGING ON TUESDAY. FOR WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY...MODLES BRING SIGNIFICANT COLD FRONT THROUGH THE AREA. LOOKS LIKE A GOOD CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...A LITTLE EARLY TO BE SURE OF TIMING YET. IF STORMS HOLD OFF LONG ENOUGH...WEDNESDAY HIGHS COULD BE EVEN HOTTER WITH WARM WEST WINDS NOSING INTO THE AREA AHEAD OF THE FRONT. COOLER AND DRIER AIR WILL MOVE IN FOR LATE WEEK. UNUSUALLY DEEP TROUGH DEVELOPING OVER THE EAST AND A NICE SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE MOVING IN FOR THE WEEKEND. LOOKS LOVELY WITH HIGHS IN THE 80S AND LOWER HUMIDITY LEVELS THAN WE MIGHT USUALLY EXPECT FOR AUGUST. && .BNA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 13
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 530 AM CDT MON AUG 2 2004 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-031030- BEDFORD-BENTON-CANNON-CHEATHAM-CLAY-COFFEE-CUMBERLAND-DAVIDSON- DEKALB-DICKSON-FENTRESS-GILES-GRUNDY-HICKMAN-HOUSTON-HUMPHREYS- JACKSON-LAWRENCE-LEWIS-MACON-MARSHALL-MAURY-MONTGOMERY-OVERTON-PERRY- PICKETT-PUTNAM-ROBERTSON-RUTHERFORD-SMITH-STEWART-SUMNER-TROUSDALE- VAN BUREN-WARREN-WAYNE-WHITE-WILLIAMSON-WILSON- 530 AM CDT MON AUG 2 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 07
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 61 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:27 UTC.
5 flash flood, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Sheriff's department reported flooding on roads in Coalmont...and on some roads in the western part of the county.
Dime to quarter size hail reported by law enforcement.
Providence Boulevard was flooded. Newspaper story about several cars in the Ft. Campbell Boulevard area were carried off by rising water. Rescue workers assisted a woman who was trapped in her vehicle on Power Street. First responders had pulled occupants from 4 different vehicles trapped by high water. Several buildings were flooded, including Cafe 541 on Franklin Street in downtown Clarksville. A server at Cafe 541 estimated 1000 gallons of water were bucketed out of the restaurant.
Intersection of University and Franklin in Clarksville were flooded and impassable.
Law enforcement reported water covering Highway 48.
Flooding was occurring on some streets in Nashville according to station WKRN-TV 2. Portions of I-440 was flooded in the western part of the city.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, August 2004
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: 5418102, 5418105, 5418103, 5418104, 5418106, 5418107.