8 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 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 25, 9:08 PM CST, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1008 PM CDT THU MAY 25 2006 .UPDATE...LOW PRESSURE OVER GREAT LAKES WITH TRAILING COLD FRONT SLOWLY APPROACHING IN/EVV/SGF. SECONDARY BOUNDARY OVER NORTH IL/IA. AHEAD OF FIRST BOUNDARY...NUMEROUS STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING ACROSS KY. INDIVIDUAL CELLS MOVING MAINLY EAST WITH ACTIVITY GRADUALLY SHIFTING TOWARD MID TN. SEVERE WX HAS BEEN MAINLY IN FORM OF LARGE HAIL...BUT SOME STORMS SHOWING STRONG ROTATION. WE EXPECT SOME STRONGLY ROTATING SUPERCELLS TO MOVE INTO NORTH MID TN NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. EVENING SOUNDING SHOWS GOOD INSTABILITY AND CONDITION STILL QUITE WARM AND HUMID...SO EXPECT ACTIVITY TO REMAIN STRONG TO SEVERE FOR SEVERAL HOURS YET ACROSS NORTH HALF OF MID TN. WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF ANOTHER WATCH BOX IS NEEDED OVERNIGHT...PROBABLY SVR WATCH. STORMS WILL BECOME MORE LINEAR AND GRADUALLY DIMINISH VERY LATE IN THE NIGHT. HIGH POPS ARE IN THE FORECAST AND SEVERE POTENTIAL IS MENTIONED ALL ZONES. FORECAST IS ON TRACK AND UPDATES WILL BE ISSUED MAINLY FOR WATCH CHANGES. && .PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 331 PM CDT THU MAY 25 2006) DISCUSSION... STRONG LOW PRESSURE CENTER CONTINUES OVER THE GREAT LAKES MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD. ASSOCD FRONT EXTENDS SWWD FROM THE LOW INTO THE SRN PLAINS. SWLY SFC FLOW CONTINUES OVER THE AREA WITH EXTENSIVE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. SEVERAL SFC BOUNDARIES NOTED OVER THE MIDSTATE AND WILL LIKELY SERVE AS FIRING POINTS FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE CONVECTIONS. WENT A BIT HIGHER THAN MOS TONIGHT FOR POPS DUE TO THE EXTENSIVE MOISTURE AND THE RELATIVELY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. TIME SECTIONS OVER THE AREA INDICATE A LARGE SLUG OF DRY AIR WILL MOVE IN OVER THE AREA TOMORROW WITH RH BELOW 10% IN MANY PLACES ABOVE 700 MB. POPS ARE REDUCED TO AROUND 20-40 PCT FOR FRI AND 10-20 PCT FRI NIGHT. AS THE GREAT LAKES SFC LOW MOVES ON TO THE EAST...SLY FLOW WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA...BUT THE MID LEVEL SUPPORT WILL DEVELOP MUCH FURTHER NORTH AND WEST. THUS POPS WILL BE A BIT LOWER AND MORE DIURNAL IN NATURE. MOS TEMPS AND POPS ARE IN REASONABLE AGREEMENT WITH NO SIGNIFICANT DEVIATIONS PLANNED. && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 13
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 530 AM CDT THU MAY 25 2006 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-261030- 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 THU MAY 25 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER BOTH TODAY AND TONIGHT... WITH THE MOST LIKELY TIME FRAME BEING THIS AFTERNOON...AND AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. THE THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE MID STATE AGAIN FRIDAY. AGAIN...SOME COULD PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... BECAUSE OF THE ISOLATED NATURE OF THE SEVERE WEATHER EXPECTED... ACTIVATION OF SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. GIRODO
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 47 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:13 UTC.
8 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a condo located on Northfield Boulevard in Murfreesboro, off Memorial Blvd. The lightning set fire to 3 units in the condo. A lady's cat died of smoke inhalation. There were no injuries.
Several trees were down over the western part of the county. The largest tree was 3 feet in diameter.
Trees were blown down and were blocking a road.
The downtown studios of WKSR-AM and WKSR-FM were struck by lightning on South Second St. in Pulaski. The lightning knocked out the phone system and the inner office network. The inner office network allows the on-air computers to talk to each other, including the EAS computer system at the station. The station's satellite system, Internet service, the Associated Press link to the radio station, an office computer, and a modem in another computer were completely destroyed.
Tree was blown down on a mobil home. Newspaper story estimated damage to be around $35,000.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, May 2006
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: 5506500, 5506489, 5506493, 5506490, 5506491, 5506492, 5506494, 5506495, 5506496, 5506497, 5506501, 5506498, 5506499.