A warm and unstable airmass continued to remain across Middle Tennessee, and with daytime heating influences becoming well established during the mid afternoon hours, all these ingredients started the development of severe thunderstorms across the mid state that lasted well into the late evening hours. Several reports of hail and a few reports of thunderstorm wind damage and funnel clouds were…
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A warm and unstable airmass continued to remain across Middle Tennessee, and with daytime heating influences becoming well established during the mid afternoon hours, all these ingredients started the development of severe thunderstorms across the mid state that lasted well into the late evening hours. Several reports of hail and a few reports of thunderstorm wind damage and funnel clouds were received.
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 17, 2:50 PM CST, 1 hour earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 350 PM CDT WED JUN 17 2009 .DISCUSSION... ISOLATED CONVECTION ONGOING ACROSS THE EASTERN TWO THIRDS OF THE MID STATE. MOISTURE FLUX DIVERGENT FIELDS APPEAR TO BE IN PLACE ACROSS MIDDLE TN AND IS THEREBY IMPEDING THE DEVELOPMENT THUS FAR. SHOWERS AND TSTMS ACROSS KY HOWEVER...WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AND MAY MOVE ACROSS OUR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PLATEAU LATER THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONALLY...GIVEN THE LARGE DEGREE OF INSTABILITY IN PLACE...FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF TSTM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED. THUS...A SVR TSTM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF THE MID STATE THROUGH 02Z (00Z PLATEAU). FOR TONIGHT...WILL SCT TSTMS MOST AREAS WITH A FEW POSSIBLY SEVERE. OTW...UPPER RIDGE OVER LOUISIANA WILL BUILD SLOWLY TOWARD THE NE OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. AS MID LEVEL TEMPS INCREASE AND COMPRESSION OCCURS IN THE MID/UPPER LEVELS...CAP STRENGTHS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE. THUS...RAIN CHANCES WILL BE ON THE DOWNSWING. THE BIGGER WEATHER STORY OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS WILL BE THE HEAT. WE WILL BE RATHER HUMID FROM THE SFC UP T0 800 MB OR SO. SO AFTERNOON MIXING WILL ONLY MIX DOWN HUMID AIR. AS THE 850 MB TEMPS APPROACH 21C-22C...AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPS WILL REACH INTO THE LOWER TO MID 90S. TO MAKE THE SITUATION WORSE...DEW POINTS WILL REMAIN IN THE 69-72 DEGREE RANGE DURING MAX HEATING. THIS EQUATES TO HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 100-104. AS FOR PRECIP CHANCES...ISOL AFTERNOON TSTMS WILL BE INCLUDED FOR THU AFTERNOON WITH SCT TSTMS PLATEAU. IN THE EXT FCST... UPPER RIDGING WILL RELAX AND RETREAT BACK TO THE SOUTHWEST. UPPER FLOW WILL BECOME MORE NORTHWESTERLY. SFC FEATURES LOOK RATHER WEAK SO WITH ONLY WEAK FORCING...NO REAL ORGANIZED SYSTEMS ARE INDICATED. BUT...GIVEN THE APPARENT DESTABILIZATION THAT OCCURS EACH AFTERNOON...THERE IS JUST ENOUGH MOISTURE AVAILABLE TO WARRANT ISOL AFTERNOON TSTMS FOR A LARGE PORTION OF THE EXTENDED. AS FOR TEMPS...BEST THERMAL RIDGING RETREATS WESTWARD ALONG WITH THE RIDGE BUT 850 MB TEMPS HOLD IN THE 18-20C RANGE AND HEIGHTS REMAIN ELEVATED. THIS ALL EQUATES TO TEMPERATURES ABOUT 5 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... NASHVILLE 73 94 73 95 / 30 20 10 10 CLARKSVILLE 73 94 72 96 / 40 20 10 10 CROSSVILLE 67 88 68 91 / 50 30 10 10 COLUMBIA 72 94 72 95 / 20 20 10 10 LAWRENCEBURG 71 95 71 96 / 20 10 10 0 WAVERLY 73 94 72 96 / 30 20 10 10 && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 21
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 527 AM CDT WED JUN 17 2009 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-181030- 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- 527 AM CDT WED JUN 17 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT YET ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX COULD POSSIBLY MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE TODAY. IF SO...A FEW STORMS WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... DUE TO THE BRIEF AND ISOLATED NATURE OF POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 17/MAG
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 51 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:47 UTC.
9 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees and power lines were downed county wide.
Quarter size hail was reported.
Funnel Cloud was spotted near Byrant Station.
Penny size hail was reported.
Penny size hail was reported near the intersection of Paradise Drive and Highway 50.
Nickel size hail was reported southwest of Springfield on Highway 49.
Hail the size of quarters was reported north of Coopertown on State Highway 257.
Trees and power lines were downed county wide.
Funnel Cloud was reported near Coopertown.
Penny size hail was reported.
Funnel Cloud was observed near Joelton.
Nickel size hail was reported on Wilma Rudolph Road in Clarksville.
Quarter size hail was reported in St. Bethlehem just northeast of Clarksville.
Trees and power lines were downed county wide.
Quarter size hail was reported.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 183301, 181593, 183290, 181599, 181601, 181603, 181602, 183305, 183269, 181598, 183276, 182151, 182152, 183306, 181604.