Trees and power lines were down around these counties along with some power outages. As many as 100-150 trees were down in Maury County alone.
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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 episode as NWS OHX wrote it up.
Trees and power lines were down around these counties along with some power outages. As many as 100-150 trees were down in Maury County alone. Winds gusted to 35 to 40 mph in these areas. A tree fell and crushed a 1993 Ford Ranger in Columbia. The price of gasoline in Middle Tennessee surged from $2.60 per gallon to as high as $3.29 per gallon after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. Prices soared because of an interruption in gas supply. There was damage to pipelines. The Colonial Pipeline, which runs from Houston to New York, was shut down temporarily. Also, the temporary shutdown of refineries because of power outages and damages contributed to the gasoline shortage.
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 29, 2:39 PM CST, 4 hours 51 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 339 PM CDT MON AUG 29 2005 .DISCUSSION...WIDESPREAD SHOWERS RE-DEVELOPED ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS AFTERNOON IN ADVANCE OF HURRICANE KATRINA. AT 2 PM, KATRINA WAS LOCATED 20 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI, MOVING NORTH AT 18 MPH. WINDS AND RAIN WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE MID STATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY AS KATRINA ADVANCES NORTHWARD OVER EASTERN MISSISSIPPI. THE CENTER OF THE STORM WILL BE NEAR SOUTHWEST MIDDLE TENNESSEE AT 12Z TUESDAY AND NEAR HOPKINSVILLE, KENTUCKY AT 18Z. WINDS WILL INCREASE TO TROPICAL STORM FORCE OVER SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE MID STATE TONIGHT AND ACROSS NORTHERN AREAS LATE TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. WINDS SHOULD DIMINISH RAPIDLY BY LATE AFTERNOON TUESDAY, AS KATRINA PULLS RAPIDLY NORTHWARD INTO THE OHIO VALLEY. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE MID STATE FROM 1 AM TONIGHT THROUGH 6 PM TUESDAY. MANY AREAS WILL RECEIVE BETWEEN TWO AND THREE INCHES OF RAIN, WITH SOME LOCAL AMOUNTS AS HIGH AS 5 INCHES. INLAND TROPICAL STORM WIND WARNINGS HAVE BEEN RAISED OVER SOUTHERN PARTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE TONIGHT AND FOR NORTHERN AREAS LATE TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. SINCE ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE WILL LIKELY BE EAST OF KATRINAS CENTER LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY, WE WILL, UNFORTUNATELY, BE IN THE MOST FAVORABLE PART OF THE STORM FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES. TROPICAL SYSTEMS LIKE THIS OFTEN PRODUCE BRIEF, ISOLATED, F0 AND F1 TORNADOES AND CAN SPIN UP QUICKLY WITH LITTLE, OR NO, ADVANCE WARNING. WILL PROBABLY MENTION THE POSSIBILITY OF ISOLATED TORNADOES IN THE ZFP. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... NASHVILLE 72 77 66 86 / 100 100 50 10 CLARKSVILLE 70 72 65 86 / 100 100 50 10 CROSSVILLE 71 77 66 83 / 100 100 60 10 && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... INLAND TROPICAL STORM WARNING FROM 10 PM MONDAY TO 11 AM TUESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: GILES...LAWRENCE...LEWIS...PERRY...AND WAYNE. FLOOD WATCH FROM 1 AM TUESDAY TO 6 PM TUESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: 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...AND WILSON. INLAND TROPICAL STORM WARNING FROM 1 AM TUESDAY TO 1 PM TUESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: BEDFORD...COFFEE...GRUNDY...HICKMAN...MARSHALL AND MAURY. INLAND TROPICAL STORM WATCH FROM 3 AM TUESDAY TO 4 PM TUESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: BENTON...CANNON...CHEATHAM...CLAY...CUMBERLAND...DAVIDSON...DEKALB... DICKSON...FENTRESS...HOUSTON...HUMPHREYS...JACKSON...MACON... MONTGOMERY...OVERTON...PICKETT...PUTNAM...ROBERTSON...RUTHERFORD... SMITH...STEWART...SUMNER...TROUSDALE...VAN BUREN...WARREN...WHITE... WILLIAMSON...AND WILSON. && 19
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 540 PM CDT MON AUG 29 2005 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-301030- 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- 540 PM CDT MON AUG 29 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. ...INLAND TROPICAL STORM WIND WARNING FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE TONIGHT INTO TUESDAY... ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND PLATEAU FROM 1 AM TO 10 PM CDT TUESDAY... .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... SOON TO BE TROPICAL STROM KATRINA WILL MOVE NORTH INTO THE MID STATE LATE TONIGHT...WITH OCCASIONAL SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE. WIND SPEEDS UP TO 40 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS WILL DEVELOP IN SOUTH MIDDLE TENNESSEE AFTER MIDNIGHT. ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL DEVELOP AFTER MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ON TUESDAY...ACROSS MUCH OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. HIGH SHEAR CONTINUES TO SUPPORT THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. FLOODING IS LIKELY TO OCCUR. THE REMNANTS OF KATRINA ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTH OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE TUESDAY NIGHT...ENDING THE THREAT OF HAZARDOUS WEATHER ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE. RIVERS WILL REMAIN HIGH INTO MID WEEK...WITH SOME RIVER FLOODING EXPECTED. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS MAY BE NEEDED INTO TUESDAY. GIRODO
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
11 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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: 5472649, 5472650, 5472651, 5472652, 5472653, 5472654, 5472655, 5472656, 5472657, 5472658, 5472659.