Scattered thunderstorms developed during the late afternoon through early evening hours on Friday, July 16th. A few of these thunderstorms reached severe thresholds, resulting in thunderstorm wind damage across four counties in the mid state.
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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 thunderstorms developed during the late afternoon through early evening hours on Friday, July 16th. A few of these thunderstorms reached severe thresholds, resulting in thunderstorm wind damage across four counties in the mid state.
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 16, 1:57 PM CST, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 257 PM CDT FRI JUL 16 2010 .DISCUSSION... SURFACE FRONT WEST TO EAST ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY BACK INTO MISSOURI AT MID-AFTERNOON WILL SAG SOUTHWARD BEFORE WASHING OUT OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS AS HIGH PRESSURE BRIDGES ACROSS. SCATTERED CONVECTION HAS FIRED THIS AFTERNOON IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE WITH A MORE ORGANIZED COMPLEX LAYING ACROSS NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI/NORTHWEST ALABAMA UP INTO SOUTHWEST MIDDLE TENNESSEE. STEERING FLOW HAS BEEN VERY WEAK. STORMS APPEAR TO BE PROPAGATING IN ALL DIRECTIONS INCLUDING WEST. EXPECT WET MICROBURTS UNDERNEATH THE STRONGER STORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN MID STATE TONIGHT AND WILL KEEP A LITTLE HIGHER POP OVER THE SOUTH AND EASTERN AREAS INCLUDING PLATEAU AND THE SAME FOR SATURDAY. WILL DECREASE POPS SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY BUT WILL KEEP THE HIGHER POPS BASICALLY IN THE EAST AND ALONG PLATEAU. STILL LOOKING AT TEMPS IN THE LOW 90S BOTH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY WITH MID 80S ON PLATEAU. UPPER PATTERN BECOMES ZONAL NORTH HALF OF U.S. AS UPPER RIDGE ACROSS THE SOUTH HALF BUILDS BACK THIS WAY BEGINNING FIRST OF NEXT WEEK AND STRENGTHENS OVER TENNESSEE BY MID WEEK. THIS WILL HEAT TEMPS BACK UP INTO MID AND UPPER 90S. EXPECT ISOLATED AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING TSTMS NEXT WEEK BUT LITTLE IN THE WAY OF RELIEF. SINCE JUNE 1ST NASHVILLE HAS RECORDED 30 DAYS OF MINIMUM TEMPERATURES 70 DEGREES AND ABOVE. THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF DAYS FOR THIS SAME TIME PERIOD IS 17 DAYS. NASHVILLE ALSO HAD 30 DAYS BACK IN 1952 AND 32 DAYS IN 1943. THE MOST EVER IS 33 DAYS BACK IN 1921. IN 1972 THERE WERE NO DAYS WITH MINIMUM TEMPERATURES OF 70 DEGREES OR ABOVE FROM JUNE 1ST TO JULY 15TH. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... NASHVILLE 74 91 73 92 / 40 50 20 20 CLARKSVILLE 73 91 72 92 / 40 30 20 20 CROSSVILLE 69 85 70 85 / 50 60 30 40 COLUMBIA 73 91 72 91 / 50 50 20 20 LAWRENCEBURG 73 90 72 90 / 50 60 20 40 WAVERLY 74 91 72 92 / 40 40 20 20 && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && BOYD
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 504 AM CDT FRI JUL 16 2010 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-171000- 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- 504 AM CDT FRI JUL 16 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL RANGE FROM 100 TO 105 DEGREES ACROSS LOCATIONS ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE WEST OF THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU REGION BY AS EARLY AS NOON TODAY...AND LAST THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. 31
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
5 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
One tree was reported down in Dickson while other trees were reported down over the southwestern part of county.
A tree was blown down on Barlow Lane just north of the intersection of State Highway 266 and State Highway 96.
Trees were downed which resulted in power lines being taken down on Humingbird Drive.
Large tree branches were broken off resulting in power lines being downed on Chesapeake Drive.
Several trees were blown down in Adams.
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, July 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: 251039, 251041, 251042, 251045, 251073.