There was an isolated severe thunderstorm in Fentress County on July 4th.
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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 episode as NWS OHX wrote it up.
There was an isolated severe thunderstorm in Fentress County on July 4th.
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 4, 2:27 PM CST, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 327 PM CDT FRI JUL 4 2008 .DISCUSSION... WEAK TROUGH/FRONT TO THE NORTH ALONG A LINE FROM NRN AR THROUGH CNTRL KY BECOMING COMPLICATED BY BNDRYS ASSOCD WITH OLD CONVECTION. MODELS CONTINUE TO EXPECT THIS TROUGH TO DROP SWD TONIGHT AND THEN DISSIPATE OVER THE AREA. THIS WILL REDUCE POPS FOR TOMORROW AND SUN AS DRIER AIR FILTERS INTO THE AREA ABOVE THE BNDRY LAYER. SOUTH FLOW AT THE SFC WILL PERSIST OVER THE AREA SUN-TUE AS THE BERMUDA REASSERTS INFLUENCE. AS THIS SLY FLOW CONTINUES...MODEL SNDGS SHOW MOISTURE INCREASING FROM 1.0 INCHES TO 1.7 INCHES BY MON NGT. COLUMN MOISTURE INCREASES FURTHER TO NEARLY 2 INCHES AS ANOTHER WEAK FRONT DIVES SEWD INTO THE OHIO VALLEY ON WED. THE FRONT HANGS IN THE AREA ON THU AND MOST OF FRI BEFORE INJECTING A BIT OF DRIER AIR INTO THE AREA WITH COLUMN MOISTURE DROPPING DOWN TO AROUND 1.1 INCHES BY SAT AM. THUS A CHANCE OF RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE FORECAST WITH THE POP BEING MODULATED BY DIURNAL TRENDS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... NASHVILLE 67 85 66 89 / 50 30 10 20 CLARKSVILLE 65 86 63 89 / 40 20 10 10 CROSSVILLE 64 79 63 83 / 60 40 20 20 COLUMBIA 68 85 67 89 / 50 30 20 20 LAWRENCEBURG 68 85 67 87 / 50 30 20 20 WAVERLY 66 86 64 88 / 40 20 10 10 && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && JLM
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 440 PM CDT FRI JUL 4 2008 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-052145- 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- 440 PM CDT FRI JUL 4 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. A FEW MAY PRODUCE BRIEF...GUSTY...WINDS TO 40 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 19
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A large spruce tree fell on a house located at 3090 Martha Washington Road in Clarkrange. The tree caused some damage to the home.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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