A cold front moved through Middle Tennessee on the evening of Nov. 5, 2007.
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The episode as NWS OHX wrote it up.
A cold front moved through Middle Tennessee on the evening of Nov. 5, 2007. Davidson and Rutherford Counties had reports of severe weather...that is large hail and strong damaging winds.
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 Nov 5, 2:21 PM CST, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 221 PM CST MON NOV 5 2007 .DISCUSSION...LOW PRESSURE WAS LOCATED OVER THE GREAT LAKES WITH COLD FRONT TRAILING TO IND AND FSM. THIS FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO ACCELERATE LATE TODAY...CROSSING MID TN BY 06Z. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS AR EXPECTED TO FILL IN ALONG BOUNDARY...ALTHOUGH COVERAGE MAY BE SCATTERED SOME AREAS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE UNIMPRESSIVE WITH RAPID MOVEMENT OF FRONT. AN ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE CELL WITH LARGE HAIL OR BRIEF STRONG WIND REMAINS A POSSIBILITY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. MAIN STORY WITH FRONTAL PASSAGE WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLY COOLER AIR. TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE 70S THIS AFTERNOON...AND READINGS WILL FALL INTO THE 30S MANY AREAS EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. TUESDAY WILL BE PARTLY SUNNY AND CHILLY WITH HIGHS MAINLY IN THE LOWER 50S. THE SOMEWHAT GUSTY NORTHWEST WIND WILL MAKE IT FEEL COOLER. THE COLD DRY AIR MASS ALONG WITH CLEAR SKIES AND DIMINISHING WINDS WILL BRING COLD TEMPERATURES FOR TUESDAY NIGHT...PERHAPS A HARD FREEZE MANY AREAS. THIS HAS BEEN ADDRESSED IN HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKS AND SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENTS. DRY WX SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. ANOTHER CLIPPER SYSTEM WILL PASS TO OUR NORTH ON THURSDAY. WE WILL SEE INCREASED CLOUDINESS BUT NO RAIN EXPECTED FOR NOW. HEIGHTS WILL RISE OVER THE WEEKEND WITH TEMPERATURES CLIMBING A LITTLE ABOVE NORMAL. A SYSTEM TO OUR NORTHWEST WILL SWING A SWATH OF MOISTURE OVER THE ARA SUNDAY...WITH A SLIGHT RAIN CHANCE. ANOTHER MORE SIGNIFICANT SYSTEM WILL DEVELOP OVER THE PLAINS AND WILL SWING A FRONT AND BETTER RAIN CHANCE INTO THE REGION MONDAY AND TUESDAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... NASHVILLE 40 54 29 54 / 50 0 0 0 CLARKSVILLE 37 52 28 54 / 40 0 0 0 CROSSVILLE 37 48 25 51 / 70 0 0 0 COLUMBIA 41 55 29 55 / 60 0 0 0 LAWRENCEBURG 42 55 29 56 / 60 0 0 0 WAVERLY 39 53 28 55 / 50 0 0 0 && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR TNZ005>011- 022>034-059-062>066-078-080. && 13
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1045 AM CST MON NOV 5 2007 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-061130- STEWART-MONTGOMERY-ROBERTSON-SUMNER-MACON-CLAY-PICKETT-BENTON- HOUSTON-HUMPHREYS-DICKSON-CHEATHAM-DAVIDSON-WILSON-TROUSDALE- SMITH-JACKSON-PUTNAM-OVERTON-FENTRESS-PERRY-HICKMAN-LEWIS- WILLIAMSON-MAURY-MARSHALL-RUTHERFORD-CANNON-DEKALB-WHITE- CUMBERLAND-BEDFORD-COFFEE-WARREN-GRUNDY-VAN BUREN-WAYNE-LAWRENCE- GILES- 1045 AM CST MON NOV 5 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL BRING GUSTY WINDS TO THE AREA TODAY. A LAKE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM FOR THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF THE MID STATE...WHERE WIND GUSTS OVER 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. THE GUSTY WINDS WILL ALSO ENHANCE FIRE DANGER...SO A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE MID STATE UNTIL 6 PM. THE APPROACHING FRONT WILL ALSO BRING A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE NORTHWEST PARTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE ARE IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER. THIS SLIGHT RISK INCLUDES CLARKSVILLE...CAMDEN...DOVER AND WAVERLY. STORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. ANY SEVERE STORMS THAT DEVELOP IN NORTHWEST MIDDLE TENNESSEE SHOULD WEAKEN AS THEY MOVE FARTHER SOUTH AND EAST LATE IN THE EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY FROST AND FREEZING TEMPERATURES COULD OCCUR TUESDAY NIGHT AND POSSIBLY AGAIN WEDNESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING OVER NORTHWEST MIDDLE TENNESSEE. 13
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 21 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:09 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees and power lines were down around the county.
Quarter size hail reported in the Crieve Hall area of Nashville.
Numerous trees were blown down in Smyrna.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, November 2007
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: 64233, 64234, 64235.