8 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 Aug 13, 2:37 AM CST, 9 hours 8 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 337 AM CDT SAT AUG 13 2005 .SHORT TERM (TODAY THROUGH MONDAY).. SATELLITE DATA SHOWS UPPER SHORTWAVE OVER SOUTHERN ALABAMA THAT WILL MOVE NORTHEAST TODAY...ENHANCING PCPN COVERAGE IN EAST MIDDLE TENNESSEE. 13/00Z MODEL SOUNDINGS SHOW MODERATE INSTABILITY WITH WEAK CAP ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE TODAY. CAP NIL/WEAKER IN THE PLATEAU AROUND 18Z. ETA BORDERS WITH STRONG INSTABILITY...BUT GFS MORE REALISTIC. LIKELY POPS SOUTHERN/CENTRAL PLATEAU WITH SCATTERED COVERAGE MOST AREAS WEST. WEAK WIND FIELDS SO SLOW MOVING STORMS TODAY. MORE CLOUDS AND PCPN COVERAGE TODAY WILL KEEP HIGH TEMPERATURES A DEGREE OR TWO FROM MAV MOS VALUES. MID 90S STILL ON TRACK AT THIS POINT...MID TO UPPER 80S PLATEAU. UPPER WAVE CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTHEAST TONIGHT WITH LESS IMPACT TO MIDDLE TENNESSEE ON SUNDAY. LOWERED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE TO ISOLATED THEN...AND WENT ABOVE MAV MOS FOR HIGH TEMPERATURES. UPPER RIDGE CONTINUES INTO THE WORK WEEK...WITH MINOR SHORTWAVES TO CONTEND WITH AT THIS POINT. SO KEPT PCPN CHCS ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AT BEST. .LONG TERM (TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY)... FRONTAL BOUNDARY REMAINS NORTH ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY EARLY NEXT WEEK. UPPER HIGH REMAINS ANCHORED OFF THE SOUTHEAST COAST...SO KEPT LOW END CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION IN THE EXTENDED. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... NASHVILLE 94 73 95 73 / 50 20 20 20 CLARKSVILLE 97 73 94 73 / 20 20 20 30 CROSSVILLE 86 67 87 67 / 50 30 20 20 && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 04
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 530 AM CDT SAT AUG 13 2005 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-141030- 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 SAT AUG 13 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... A WEAK LOW PRESSURE AREA WILL MOVE FROM ALABAMA INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE TODAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING...WITH THE HIGHEST CHANCES OVER THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU. THE SLOW MOVING STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS BUT MOST OF THEM WILL REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE IS EXPECTED DURING THIS PERIOD...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE ACTIVITY SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS IS NOT ANTICIPATED. LV
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 35 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:44 UTC.
8 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
2 sheds were heavily damaged, a trailer was damaged, and several trees were blown down. Two pieces of tin were wrapped around a tree.
Trees were down near Highway 258.
5 trees were blown down along Robinwood Drive. Newspaper article stated that a carport from Brown's Body Shop on Stanley Boulevard, was blown onto Reese Street and struck and damaged a home and a car. The body shop is about 2.9 miles east of downtown Shelbyville.
Public estimated 50 knots of wind. Tree was down.
Numerous tree were blown down along Old Nashville Highway.
Trees and power lines were down in Murfreesboro. A tree was down on Academy off Southeast Broad Street, and also on Greenland Drive, Florence Road and Singer Road. Downed trees were also reported in downtown Murfreesboro.
Numerous trees were blown down.
Tree was blown down on Canoe Branch Rd.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, August 2005
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: 5473731, 5473737, 5473736, 5473732, 5473735, 5472573, 5473733, 5473734.