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 Jul 11, 9:00 AM CST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1000 AM CDT SUN JUL 11 2004 .DISCUSSION... LIGHT SOUTHWESTERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW CONTINUES WITH A SURFACE RIDGE AXIS TO THE SOUTH OVER THE GULF STATES AND SOUTH WESTERN ATLANTIC. A TROPICAL WAVE, PREVIOUSLY OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO HAS MOVED INTO TEXAS AND IS INTERACTING WITH A WEAK H5 TROUGH IN THE AREA. IT BRINGS WITH A LARGE POOL OF MOISTURE, MOVING INTO SOUTH TEXAS. MODELS ESSENTIALLY MOVE THIS MOISTURE NWWD INTO MEXICO, WITH LITTLE EFFECT ON MIDSTATE WEATHER. MODELS EXPECT THE H5 LOW OVER THE CANADIAN ROCKIES TO DIVE SEWD OVER THE NEXT 72 HRS AND CARVE OUT A STRONG(FOR JULY) H5 TROUGH OVER THE ERN US BY WED PM. THIS PUSHES A GOOD COOL FRONT INTO THE AREA BY WED AM. CURRENT ZONE FORECAST EXPECTING SCATTERED CONVECTION OVER THE AREA FOR TODAY WITH A FEW SHOWERS ALREADY OVER NORTHERN PORTION OF THE MIDSTATE IS AN AREA OF WEAK MOISTURE CONVERGENCE. CUREENT PACKAGE LOOKS FINE, NO CHANGES FOR NOW. .BNA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && JLM
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 530 AM CDT SUN JUL 11 2004 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-121030- 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 SUN JUL 11 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS AFTERNOON...AND ISOLATED AREAS MAY EXPERIENCE PONDING OF WATER FROM LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST THROUGH THE PERIOD. HOWEVER...THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. END/ORCHANIAN
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:43 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a barn in southeast Cookeville, about 100 yards from a house on Old Bridge Rd. The barn and its contents, which included a tractor, was totally destroyed.
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, July 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: 5412883.