A few severe weather events occurred on June 23.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
A few severe weather events occurred on June 23.
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 Jun 23, 12:25 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 125 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2008 .SHORT TERM...(THRU WED NITE) CURRENT...SOME FAIRLY STRONG CONVECTION MOVING SE INTO FAR SW COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON. ELSEWHERE CU (SOME TOWERING) INCREASING IN COVERAGE. TEMPS IN 80 TO 85 DEG RANGE FOR MOST PART. ONGOING CONVECTION OVER SW COUNTIES SHOULD MOVE SE INTO NORTHERN AL BY 2 PM. STILL A SLITE CHANCE FOR CONVECTION REMAINDER OF AFTERNOON...ACCORDING TO MODELS MAINLY FOR PLATEAU REGION AHEAD OF H5 VORT MAX. H5 TROF AXIS ERN GRTLKS-TN VLY THIS EVE WILL MOVE E OUT OF PICTURE TONITE AFTER WHICH H5 HEIGHTS WILL BE ON RISE ALONG WITH OUT TEMPS. WEAK RIDGING BY WED. NO POPS FOR TONITE THRU WED NITE. .LONG TERM... THU INTO FRI AN H5 S/WV COMES INTO PLAY WITH DEEPER MOISTURE AND HIER POPS. RAIN CHANCES CONTINUE SAT...WITH BEST CHANCE FOR RAIN ON SUN AS ANOMALOUS H5 TROF DEVELOPS OVER CNTRL CONUS AND SURFACE FRONT IN VICINITY OF CWA. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... NASHVILLE 61 89 66 92 / 10 10 10 10 CLARKSVILLE 59 88 63 91 / 10 10 10 10 CROSSVILLE 55 83 60 85 / 10 10 10 10 COLUMBIA 60 90 66 91 / 10 10 10 10 LAWRENCEBURG 59 90 67 92 / 10 10 10 10 WAVERLY 59 89 65 92 / 10 10 10 10 && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 17/MAG
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 507 AM CDT MON JUN 23 2008 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-241030- 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- 507 AM CDT MON JUN 23 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ROSE
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 105 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2008 TNZ056>058-060-093>095-231915- PERRY-HICKMAN-LEWIS-MAURY-WAYNE-LAWRENCE-GILES- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LINDEN...LOBELVILLE...CENTERVILLE... HOHENWALD...COLUMBIA...WAYNESBORO...LAWRENCEBURG...PULASKI 105 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2008 ...STRONG STORM IN HARDIN COUNTY MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST... AT 1 PM CDT...A STRONG STORM WAS MOVING THROUGH HARDIN COUNTY. ON ITS CURRENT TRACK...THIS STORM MAY CLIP THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF WAYNE COUNTY...AROUND 120 PM CDT. STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO 35 MPH AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. BOYD
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 228 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2008 TNZ061-094-095-232030- MARSHALL-LAWRENCE-GILES- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LEWISBURG...LAWRENCEBURG...PULASKI 228 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH LAWRENCE COUNTY AT 230 PM CDT. THE STRONGER STORMS WERE ALONG HIGHWAY 64 IN LAWRENCE COUNTY...AND AROUND THE CITY OF LAWRENCEBURG. WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH AND SMALL HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 25 MPH. BOYD
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 82 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:02 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees were uprooted. A home lost shingles, and tin roofs torn off homes.
Nickel size hail observed on Old Rock Island Rd.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, June 2008
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: 99231, 99233.