Scattered severe thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front and then moved across Middle Tennessee during the late morning through afternoon hours on Thursday, August 5th, resulting in thunderstorm wind, hail, and lightning damage.
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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.
Scattered severe thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front and then moved across Middle Tennessee during the late morning through afternoon hours on Thursday, August 5th, resulting in thunderstorm wind, hail, and lightning damage.
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 Aug 5, 10:05 AM CST, 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1105 AM CDT THU AUG 5 2010 .UPDATE... COLD FRONT...JUST EAST OF PADUCAH...WILL HEAD SOUTHEAST AND UNDERCUT VERY MOIST AND HOT UNSTABLE AIR MASS IN THE MID STATE THIS AFTERNOON. DEW POINT TONGUE OF 77 DEGS CURRENTLY IN OUR NORTHWESTERN COUNTIES...AND TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER 90S...ALREADY PRODUCING HEAT INDICES IN THE 101 TO 104 DEGREE RANGE. 12Z BNA SOUNDING, MODIFIED TO A MAX TEMPERATURE OF 97 DEGREES, PROVIDES THE FOLLOWING INSTABILITY STATS: TOTAL TOTALS 47 LI -7 CAPE 4.2K J/KG EL 51.4 K FT WRF AND RUC INDICATE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BREAKING OUT DURING THE AFTERNOON OVER A GOOD CHUNK OF THE MID STATE, AND LATEST MET RAISES POPS AT CSV TO 80%. THUS, WILL GO WITH "LIKELY POPS" FOR MUCH OF OUR CWA, SOUTHEAST OF A SPRINGFIELD TO CAMDEN LINE (INCLUDING BNA AND CSV). BELIEVE OLD OUTFLOW BOUNDARY, JUST NORTH AND WEST OF DAVIDSON COUNTY, WILL ALSO PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR AFTERNOON TSTM DEVELOPMENT. && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HEAT ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR TNZ007>011-026>033- 059>065-075-077-078. EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR TNZ005- 006-022>025-056>058-093>095. && 19
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 532 AM CDT THU AUG 5 2010 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-061030- 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- 532 AM CDT THU AUG 5 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL PUSH INTO THE AREA...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE. HEAT INDEX VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO REACH 110 DEGREES ACROSS THE WESTERN THIRD OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE THROUGH 7 PM TODAY...WITH AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT. HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 104 AND 107 DEGREES ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MOST OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE COUNTIES THROUGH 7 PM TODAY...WITH A HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... REPORTS FROM TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED. SPOTTER THUNDERSTORM REPORTING CRITERIA... TORNADO FUNNEL CLOUD FLOODING HAIL >= 1/2 INCH WINDS > 50 MPH (MEASURED) STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TREES OR POWER LINES DOWN 04
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 53 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:34 UTC.
18 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Spotters reported trees down on Dave Beasley Road in Westmoreland.
Expert Tire at 509 North Garden Street was struck by lightning, burning the motor in the building's central heating and cooling unit. Otherwise, no other damage to the building was reported.
Trees reported down in Castalian Springs on Rock Springs Road.
Trees were downed at the intersection of Berea Church Road and Coles Ferry Pike.
A tree was blown down and into power lines in Summertown. Type of and amount of damage to power lines was unkown.
Onto New Salem Road, trees were blown down.
Trees were reported down county wide. A roof was reported off a carport at 120 Homepage Road in Brush Creek. Barns were also damaged in Chest Mound. Amount of barns that were damaged and the type of damage to each barn was unknown.
Newspapers reported that downed tree and tree limbs knocked power out to several homes in Gordonsville and the surrounding areas.
Large tree limbs were reported down on State Highway 96 North.
Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across the southern portion of the county.
Numerous trees and power lines were blown down all across the northern portion of the county.
Large trees were blown down onto Old Baxter Road in Baxter.
A few trees were blown down 5 miles southeast of Murfreesboro.
Numerous trees were blown down across the western portion of the county.
At least 10 trees were blown down west of Ashland City along Highway 49.
Spotter reported numerous trees downed on Polk Street in Tullahoma.
Trees were reported downed in southeastern part of the county.
Trees were blow down near Highway 13 south of Interstate 40.
Trees were blown down across State Highway 13 between Linden and Lobelville.
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, August 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: 255459, 257389, 255462, 255464, 254918, 255463, 255650, 257305, 257310, 255651, 255064, 255652, 255654, 255067, 255653, 255655, 258927, 255656, 255657, 258933, 255065, 258934, 255658.