1 tornado, 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 May 30, 1:46 AM CST, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 246 AM CDT SUN MAY 30 2004 .DISCUSSION... STORM SYSTEM CENTERED OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS AT THIS HOUR WILL BE THE NEXT WEATHER MAKER FOR MIDDLE TN. WIND ENERGY WILL BEGIN TO AMPLIFY THROUGH THE DAY TODAY AS THE STORM SYSTEM MOVES EAST. MODELS...ESPECIALLY THE AVN...APPEARS TO BE OVERDOING THE DYNAMICS FOR THE TODAY PERIOD. HOWEVER...MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WILL BE ON THE INCREASE THROUGH THE DAY. THEREFORE...WILL INCLUDE 50 POPS BUT NOT THE 70 AND 80 POPS WHICH ARE BEING ADVERTISED BY THE GUIDANCE. TONIGHT IS WHEN THE SEVERE WEATHER ACTION WILL BEGIN. BEST UPPER DYNAMICS AND THE SURFACE LOW ITSELF WILL MOVE WELL TO THE NORTH OF TN. HOWEVER...A CLOSER LOOK REVEALS SOME UPPER LEVEL ENERGY JUST IN ADVANCE OF THE FRONTAL POSITIONING ALONG THE MS RIVER AT 06Z. FURTHERMORE...SOME UPPER DIVERGENT FLOW IS EXPECTED IN ADVANCE AND ALONG THE FRONTAL PASSAGE. MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW THE OMEGA FIELD ENTERING WESTERN MIDDLE TN IN THE 05Z TO 09Z TIMEFRAME. 850 MB WIND FIELDS SHOW A 50 TO 60 KT JET AND PLENTY OF WIND ENERGY IN PLACE FOR THE STORMS TO TAP INTO. MODELS SLAM THE OMEGA FIELD SOUTH OF TN JUST BEFORE 12Z. GIVEN THE UNCERTAINTY THAT THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL END BEFORE 12Z AREA WIDE...WILL CONTINUE WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS EARLY MEMORIAL DAY ACROSS ALL ZONES...BUT ONLY INCLUDE THE MENTION OF SEVERE FOR SOUTHERN ZONES AND THE PLATEAU. OTHERWISE...SEVERE WEATHER WORDING WILL STILL BE INCLUDED FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TN LATE TONIGHT WITH DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE PRIMARY THREAT. AS FOR HEAVY RAINFALL POTENTIAL...IT DOES LOOK AS THOUGH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS STILL LIKELY. HOWEVER...GIVEN THE PROGRESSIVENESS OF THE EVENT AND THE RATHER HIGH FFG VALUES...I DO NOT EXPECT FLASH FLOODING OTHER THAT AN ISOLATED EVENT OR TWO. SUNSHINE TO RETURN BY AFTERNOON ON MEMORIAL DAY. LOWER DEWPOINTS WILL TRANSLATE INTO A COOLER THAN NORMAL LOW TEMPERATURE FOR MONDAY NIGHT. WILL KEEP CLOSE TO MAV GUIDANCE VALUES FOR TEMPS...MAY NEED TO GO A DEGREE WARMER THROUGH THE PERIOD. MOISTURE AND A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN LATE TUESDAY NIGHT AND INTO WEDNESDAY. THIS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY DRIER AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT...SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES FOR A FEW DAYS. && .BNA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 21
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 530 AM CDT SUN MAY 30 2004 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-311030- 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 MAY 30 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY THIS EVENING...THEN MOVE EAST INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE OVERNIGHT. THE STORM SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO WEAKEN AS IT MOVES EAST...BUT REMAINS STRONG ENOUGH TO MAINTAIN THE CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH WIND DAMAGE AND HEAVY RAINFALL TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE POTENTIAL FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED SUNDAY NIGHT. 04
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:45 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado blew a porch off a trailer. Also, a tree fell on another trailer. 5 homes lost shingles on its roof.A metal shed was blown away. The damage to the tornado started in Tracy City on Lankfordtown Rd.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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