4 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 4 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 Dec 3, 10:28 PM CST, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1028 PM CST SAT DEC 3 2005 .UPDATE...MIDDLE TENNESSEE IS NOW BLANKETED WITH SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES THROUGH THE LATE NIGHT HOURS, AS A COLD FRONT MOVES IN FROM THE WEST. THE COLD FRONT WAS POISED JUST NORTHWEST OF STEWART COUNTY AT 1000 AM, AND WILL SWEEP SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT. EXPECT PRECIPITATION TO END FOLLOWING PASSAGE OF THE SQUALL LINE, THAT REACHED FROM NEAR CLARKSVILLE TO NEAR JACKSON, TENNESSEE AT 1030 PM. WILL LIKELY START TO CLEAR WATCH AREAS FOR SOME WESTERN COUNTIES BY MIDNIGHT, AS LINE OF STORMS MOVES EASTWARD. && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 5 AM SUNDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: BEDFORD...COFFEE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE DISTRICT 5 SOUTH BEDFORD-GILES-HARDIN-HICKMAN-LAWRENCE-LEWIS-LINCOLN-MARSHALL-MAURY-PERRY-WAYNE... GILES...GRUNDY...LAWRENCE...LEWIS...MARSHALL...MAURY...PERRY... AND WAYNE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 3 AM SUNDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: BENTON...CANNON...CHEATHAM...CLAY...CUMBERLAND... DAVIDSON...DEKALB...DICKSON...FENTRESS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE DISTRICT 4 CANNON-CLAY-CUMBERLAND-DE KALB-FENTRESS-JACKSON-MACON-OVERTON-PICKETT-PUTNAM-SMITH-TROUSDALE-WARREN-WHITE... FIRE WEATHER ZONE DISTRICT 5 NORTH CHEATHAM-DAVIDSON-DICKSON-HOUSTON-HUMPHREYS-MONTGOMERY-ROBERTSON-RUTHERFORD-STEWART-SUMNER-WILLIAMSON-WILSON... HICKMAN...HOUSTON...HUMPHREYS...JACKSON...MACON...MONTGOMERY... OVERTON...PICKETT...PUTNAM...ROBERTSON...RUTHERFORD...SMITH... STEWART...SUMNER...TROUSDALE...VAN BUREN...WARREN...WHITE... WILLIAMSON...AND WILSON. && 19/19
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1041 PM CST SAT DEC 3 2005 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-041030- 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- 1041 PM CST SAT DEC 3 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. ...SEVERE STORMS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE IN THE MID STATE TONIGHT... .DAY ONE...REST OF TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND PRODUCE THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WITH ISOLATED TORNADOES AND LARGE HAIL. AT 1030 PM...A SQUALL LINE WAS OVER NORTHWESTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND IS FORECAST TO MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS OTHER PARTS OF THE MID STATE BETWEEN NOW AND 500 AM. LARGE HAIL...TO PENNY SIZE... FELL FROM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THIS LINE...NEAR ERIN... SHORTLY AFTER 10 PM TONIGHT. LOW LEVEL HELICITIES ARE HIGH TONIGHT...AND WILL INCREASE THE POSSIBILITY FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES. REMEMBER...NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS BECAUSE IT IS DIFFICULT...IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE...TO SEE THEM COMING. STAY TUNED TO A RELIABLE SOURCE OF WEATHER INFORMATION FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT AND LISTEN FOR ANY SEVERE WEATHER WARNINGS THAT MIGHT BE ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. BE READY TO RESPOND QUICKLY IF A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SNOW...SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...AND AGAIN THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY...AS A COLD...BROAD UPPER TROUGH DEVELOPS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS ARE ADVISED TO STAY ALERT FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT...AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH MIDDLE TENNESSEE. MASSIE
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1030 PM CST SAT DEC 03 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1022 PM HAIL 2 N ERIN 36.34N 87.70W
12/03/2005 0.75 INCH HOUSTON TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
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JCOHENPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1129 PM CST SAT DEC 03 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1123 PM HAIL 5 W HOHENWALD 35.55N 87.65W
12/03/2005 1.75 INCH LEWIS TN TRAINED SPOTTER
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ROSEPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1149 PM CST SAT DEC 03 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1125 PM HAIL 8 S LINDEN 35.50N 87.84W
12/03/2005 0.75 INCH PERRY TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
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JCOHENThe Nashville radar (KOHX), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:02 UTC.
4 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a house on Grandiose Drive. Items in a crawl space caught on fire.
An abandoned old cabin was struck by lightning and set on fire on Penhook Road. The cabin was a complete loss.
Newspaper account of an old farm house being struck by lightning and set on fire. The house was unoccupied on Nash Road, off of Cookeville Boatdock Rd. The house was a complete loss.
Utility pole was on fire after a lightning strike on Mine Lick Creek 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, December 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: 5482628, 5482629, 5482630, 5482631.