A few severe thunderstorms affected Middle Tennessee ahead of a strong cold front.
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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.
A few severe thunderstorms affected Middle Tennessee ahead of a strong cold front.
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 Apr 7, 6:06 PM CST, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 706 PM CDT WED APR 7 2010 .UPDATE...FOR 00Z TAFS && .AVIATION... BROKEN LINE OF STG-SVR STORMS MOVG E OF MS RVR NEXT HOUR OR SO. DRIER AIR NOTED ACR MID TN...BUT DEEP LAYER LIFT IN LOCAL WRF_ARW COULD SUSTAIN LINE THROUGH THE EVENING. MVFR CIGS/VIS WITH THUNDER 04-07Z KBNA. STARTED MVFR CONDITIONS WITH THUNDER KCSV 09Z. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 215 PM CDT WED APR 7 2010/ DISCUSSION...BROKEN CLOUDS HAVE COVERED THE MID STATE MOST OF THE DAY, KEEPING TEMPERATURES A DEGREE OR TWO BELOW FORECAST VALUES. DEW POINTS ARE MOSTLY IN THE 50'S AT THIS POINT, WITH THE SURFACE FRONT STILL WELL TO THE WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. LINE OF SHOWERS NOW ENTERING MIDDLE TENNESSEE WILL LIKELY REMAIN WEST OF THE NASHVILLE AREA BEFORE FIZZLING, AS IT IS MOVING INTO SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR. SPC CONTINUES TO PLACE ROUGHLY THE WESTERN HALF OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE UNDER A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT. GFS CONTINUES TO SHOW FRONTAL PASSAGE IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE MAINLY BETWEEN 06Z AND 12Z. BELIEVE WE WILL SEE A SQUALL LINE ENTER THE MID STATE DURING THE LATE EVENING WITH THE FRONT, BUT STORMS WILL LIKELY WEAKEN AS THE FRONT CONTINUES TO MOVE EASTWARD INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. SO WILL MENTION THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER IN THE PUBLIC FORECAST IN AREAS WEST OF NASHVILLE. LOOK FOR LINGERING SHOWERS TOMORROW ACROSS MUCH OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AS ADDITIONAL LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE WRAPS IN BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. SIGNIFICANT COLD AIR ADVECTION FOLLOWING FRONTAL PASSAGE WILL TRANSLATE TO MUCH LOWER TEMPERATURES TOMORROW THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT, WITH READINGS IN THE 30'S MANY AREAS BOTH TOMORROW NIGHT AND FRIDAY NIGHT BEFORE THE NEXT SURFACE RIDGE MOVES EAST OF THE MID STATE ON SATURDAY. AFTERWARDS, LOOK FOR DRY WEATHER AT LEAST THROUGH WEDNESDAY, WITH SEASONAL TEMPERATURES AND MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD. && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 04
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 332 PM CDT WED APR 7 2010 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-081030- 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-DE KALB-WHITE- CUMBERLAND-BEDFORD-COFFEE-WARREN-GRUNDY-VAN BUREN-WAYNE-LAWRENCE- GILES- 332 PM CDT WED APR 7 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH MIDDLE TENNESSEE TONIGHT, BRINGING WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE, MAINLY IN AREAS WEST OF NASHVILLE, DURING THE LATE EVENING THROUGH EARLY MORNING. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... EVEN THOUGH ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE BRIEF AND ISOLATED, SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CLOSELY MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO CALL IN ANYTHING REACHING REPORTING CRITERIA. SPOTTER THUNDERSTORM REPORTING CRITERIA... TORNADO FUNNEL CLOUD FLOODING HAIL >= 1/2 INCH WINDS > 50 MPH (MEASURED) STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TREES OR POWER LINES DOWN ROSE
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A trained spotter estimated that winds gusted to nearly 60 mph in a thunderstorm.
Hail approximately 1 inch in diameter fell along Highway 49.
Two trees were reported downed and blocking roads in the Nashville area. One was at the intersection of Massman Drive and Patricia Drive. The other one was at the intersection of Porter Road and Wendell Avenue in Hermitage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, April 2010
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: 231549, 231550, 231551.