Scattered strong thunderstorms developed across central portions of Middle Tennessee during the late afternoon to early evening hours on May 26th, resulting in damage in Davidson and Rutherford Counties.
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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 strong thunderstorms developed across central portions of Middle Tennessee during the late afternoon to early evening hours on May 26th, resulting in damage in Davidson and Rutherford Counties.
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 May 26, 4:24 PM CST, 36 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 524 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2010 .UPDATE... CONVECTION SOMEWHAT AMPLIFIED ACROSS EASTERN AREAS IN TERMS OF COVERAGE. SOME SMALL HAIL WAS RECENTLY REPORTED NEAR MCMINNVILLE. INFLUENCE OF TROUGH IS JUST ENOUGH TO LOWER THE FREEZING LEVEL ACROSS OUR PLATEAU THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FOR THE UPDATE...WILL RAISE POPS EAST AND ALSO INCLUDE SOME SMALL HAIL AS BEING POSSIBLE...GIVEN THE LARGE MID LEVEL CAPE VALUES. NO OTHER CHANGES AT THIS TIME. WILL REUPDATE AS THE CONVECTION DIES LATER THIS EVENING. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 306 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2010/ DISCUSSION... PULSE TYPE SHOWERS AND TSTMS HAVE BEEN PRETTY MUCH CONFINED ALONG THE PLATEAU TODAY WITH ISOLATED SHOWERS CURRENTLY DROPPING DOWN INTO NORTHEAST MIDDLE TN IN THE DALE HOLLOW AREA. MOST OF THE MID STATE HAS BEEN RAIN FREE. GFS AT 18Z SHOWS A WEAK SHORT WAVE EASTERN KY... FAR EASTERN TN INTO WESTERN NC. THIS FEATURE ALTHOUGH HARD TO FOLLOW DUE TO WEAK UPPER FLOW SEEMS TO ROTATE DOWN INTO EASTERN AREAS OF MID STATE AND PLATEAU AS WE GO INTO THE EVENING. ALTHOUGH BELIEVE MUCH OF CURRENT ACTIVITY IS BEING DRIVEN DIURNALLY WILL KEEP SMALL POPS GOING THIS EVENING AS SHORT WAVE WILL BE NEARBY. ON THURSDAY A WEAK UPPER TROUGH AXIS BEGINS TO DROP DOWN FROM THE NORTHWEST ALONG WITH A WEAK SURFACE FRONT. EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS/TSTMS IN MID STATE...WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THE DIURNAL HEATING. UPPER TROUGH AXIS AND SURFACE FRONT WILL WORK ACROSS THE MID STATE DURING THE DAY FRIDAY WHICH WILL INCREASE THE CHANCE FOR SHOWERS/TSTMS. UPPER LOW DEVELOPS AND GETS CUT OFF OVER ALABAMA/GEORGIA THIS WEEKEND AND THIS WILL KEEP AT LEAST A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS/TSTMS GOING OVER THE WEEKEND MUCH OF WHICH MAY ALSO BE DIURNALLY DRIVEN. THE WEATHER MAP IS VERY MUCH A SUMMER LIKE PATTERN. && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 21
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 537 AM CDT WED MAY 26 2010 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-271045- 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- 537 AM CDT WED MAY 26 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THURSDAY...MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON. A COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTH THEN STALLS ON FRIDAY... SO A FEW STORMS COULD LINGER INTO THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND. .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 04
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
510 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2010
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0450 PM HAIL 2 SW MCMINNVILLE 35.67N 85.80W
05/26/2010 E0.50 INCH WARREN TN TRAINED SPOTTER
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21The Nashville radar (KOHX), 37 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:59 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Detached three car carport damaged. Extent of damage was unkown.
Some small trees were downed and three quarter inch hail was reported in the Crieve Hall Area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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