1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 30, 9:21 AM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1021 AM CDT SAT JUL 30 2005 .DISCUSSION...14Z MSAS ANALYSIS SHOWED LARGE HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE EXTENDING FROM TX NE INTO THE GREAT LAKES...AND A WEAK TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE FROM NEAR MOBILE BAY EXTENDING NW INTO NW MS. MORNING UPPER AIR ANALYSES SHOWED A LARGE RIDGE IN PLACE AT 500 MB OVER S AND CENTRAL ROCKY MOUNTAIN STATES...AND CENTERED OVER S CO. THE WESTERLIES WERE LOCATED WELL N OF OUR REGION ACROSS N U.S. AND EXTENDING INTO NEW ENGLAND. HIGHER MOISTURE WAS OBSERVED AT 700 MB LEVEL FROM MS E INTO GA. DEW POINT TEMPERATURES AT 850 MB SHOWED A MOIST AXIS EXTENDING FROM E LA NE INTO NC AND VA...WITH HIGHEST VALUES IN TN IN THE E. A WEAK CYCLONIC CIRCULATION WAS NOTED AT 850...700 AND 300 MB LEVELS OVER LA INTO SW MS. 12Z BNA SOUNDING SHOWED MOST OF MOISTURE CONFINED TO 850 MB AND BELOW...VERY SIMILAR TO YESTERDAYS SOUNDING...WITH VERY DRY MID AND UPPER LEVELS...EVEN DRIER IN UPPER LEVELS THAN YESTERDAY AT THAT TIME. TEMPERATURES WERE A TAD WARMER IN THE LOWER LEVELS. ALL THE ABOVE POINTS TO GENERALLY PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES TODAY...WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES A FEW DEGREES WARMER THAN YESTERDAY. USING A PRECIPITATION EFFICIENCY STUDY FROM NWSFO PEACH TREE CITY... PROBABILITY OF PRECIPITATION SHOWS THAT THERE MAY BE ENOUGH MOISTURE IN PLACE BY LATER THIS AFTERNOON TO GIVE RISE TO ISOLATED SHOWERS ...PERHAPS A THUNDERSTORM OR TWO...OVER THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU. BUT THERE IS NEUTRAL OR DOWNWARD MOTION FORECAST. BUT WITH THE VERY DRY MID AND UPPER LEVELS...I WILL HOLD OFF FOR NOW AND NOT MENTION THAT IN UPDATE THAT WILL BE ISSUED SHORTLY. WILL UPDATE TO MENTION A LITTLE BIGGER RANGE IN HIGH TEMPERATURES FOR TODAY... AND GO PARTLY CLOUDY IN S AND E RATHER THAN MOSTLY SUNNY. && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && STEIGERWALDT
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 530 AM CDT SAT JUL 30 2005 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 SAT JUL 30 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. 19
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:59 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Sheriff said that lightning strikes damaged a dishwasher at the jail which cost $16,000 and destroyed a transformer, the lighting and communications systems at the jail.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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