Name: Lightning Strike in Tennessee, July 20, 2007
Start: 2007-07-20T03:30
End: 2007-07-20T03:30
Location: Tennessee

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $150,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS OHX wrote it up.

Lightning struck a house in the Stoneybrook subdivision.

What forecasters said that day

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 20, 2:15 AM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 2:15 AM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
315 AM CDT FRI JUL 20 2007

.DISCUSSION...
LATEST ANALYSIS SHOWING COLD FRONT STILL NORTH OF THE TN BORDER...
RUNNING ROUGHLY NEAR LEX TO NORTH OF PAH. FURTHER SOUTH...WEAK PRE-
FRONTAL BOUNDARY CURRENTLY DROPPING ACROSS SOUTHERN MIDDLE TN.
ALOFT...TROUGH AXIS AND S/W JUST UPSTREAM ALONG WITH A LITTLE
DEEPER MOISTURE SOURCE. THESE FEATURES HELPING TO GENERATE LARGE
AREA OF CONVECTION ACROSS NORTHWEST TN/SOUTHWEST KY.

COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO DROP DOWN ACROSS NORTHERN MIDDLE TN LATER
THIS MORNING AND CONTINUE SOUTHWARD TRACK BUT MOVEMENT EXPECTED
TO SLOW SOME ACROSS THE SOUTH. LATEST RUNS STILL SHOWING DECENT
AMOUNT OF MOISTURE / UVV ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH MIDDAY...WITH
THE NORTH DRYING OUT IN THE AFTERNOON. CURRENT MASS OF RAIN LOOKS
TO CONTINUE SOUTHEAST MOVE AND EVENTUALLY CATCH MOST OF THE
NORTHWEST AND SOUTH...WITH MORE DEVELOPMENT POSSIBLE WITH FRONTAL
PASSAGE. WILL CONTINUE LIKELY POPS SOUTH WITH SCATTERED RUNNING
NORTH THIS MORNING. EXPECT CHANCE ONLY IN THE SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON.

DRYING COMMENCES AREA-WIDE THIS EVENING/TONIGHT AND THE CWA REMAINS
DRY INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK AS UPPER TROUGH SLIDES BY...CLOSED LOW
DEVELOPS ACROSS THE MID-ATLANTIC...AND THEN WOBBLES UP THE COAST.

UPCOMING FEWS DAYS SHOULD BE LITTLE MORE COMFORTABLE WITH DRIER
AIR AND TEMP BACKING OFF SOME.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
NASHVILLE      85  62  85  61 /  40  10   0   0
CLARKSVILLE    84  58  84  58 /  40  10   0   0
CROSSVILLE     80  56  81  56 /  40  10  10  10
COLUMBIA       86  63  87  61 /  60  10   0  10
LAWRENCEBURG   87  63  86  60 /  60  10   0  10
WAVERLY        85  60  85  59 /  40  10   0   0

&&

.OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.

&&

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 19, 9:42 PM CST, 5 hours 48 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1042 PM CDT THU JUL 19 2007

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-201030-
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-
1042 PM CDT THU JUL 19 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...REST OF TONIGHT

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS...AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS...
WILL CONTINUE WORKING THEIR WAY SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE MID
STATE. HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE LIKELY WITH THE STRONGEST SHOWERS
AND STORMS...AND BRIEF WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 30 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO LINGER INTO FRIDAY...
MAINLY ACROSS THE SOUTH. A FEW STORMS COULD BE STRONG...WITH
GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

THE MORNING HOURS FRIDAY. AGAIN...SOME STORMS COULD BE STRONG.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

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The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 89 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:27 UTC.

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Event by event

1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.

Lightning, Maury

When: July 20, 3:30 AM CST
Where: Maury County, 4.1 mi SSW of Columbia
Property damage: $150,000
Reported by: Newspaper
Coordinates: 35.565, -87.078

Lightning struck the roof of a house in the Stoneybrook subdivision, located at 106 Hogan Lane. Firefighters responded within 15 minutes, but the fire had already spread quickly through the house. Firefighters spent 6 hours fighting the fire and securing the area. The fire fully-engulfed the house, and a 1964 Lincoln Continental in the driveway with 102,000 miles. There were no injuries in this blaze.

What these are

Lightning: A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Tennessee in 2007 Every state in 2007 This day in weather history Warnings in Tennessee, July 2007

Sources

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: 37142.