Severe thunderstorms developed across Middle Tennessee during the afternoon hours on May 28th.
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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.
Severe thunderstorms developed across Middle Tennessee during the afternoon hours on May 28th.
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 28, 9:54 AM CST, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1054 AM CDT FRI MAY 28 2010 .UPDATE...AS OF 15Z IT WAS MOSTLY CLOUDY-TO-CLOUDY ACROSS THE MAJORITY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE, EXCEPT FOR THE NORTHWESTERN COUNTIES, WHICH REMAINED PARTLY CLOUDY. TEMPERATURES WERE MAINLY IN THE MIDDLE AND UPPER 70S. LATEST MODEL GUIDANCE SHOWS DEEP MOISTURE REMAINING ACROSS THE BULK OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE TODAY, WITH MOST PLACES THAT ARE OVERCAST NOW EXPECTED TO REMAIN MOSTLY CLOUDY FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY. HIGH AND MID LEVEL CLOUDS WILL PREDOMINATE. HOWEVER, EVEN IF MID AND HI CLOUDS THIN SOME, EXPECT SCT-BKN CU TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AFTER TEMPERATURES MIGRATE INTO THE LOWER 80S. LATEST FORECAST 21Z RUC SOUNDING FOR BNA SHOWS LOWER LEVELS MOISTENING UP DURING THE AFTERNOON AND PW'S AROUND 1.50 INCHES. TOTALS INDEX GOES TO 49 AND CAPE INCREASES TO 3K J/KG. THUS, ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP TODAY CAN BE EXPECTED TO CONTAIN BRIEF TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. IN ADDITION, SOME OF THE STORMS, ESPECIALLY OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF OUR FORECAST AREA COULD BE SLOW- MOVING. LATEST FORECAST AFTERNOON RUC SOUNDING FOR CSV AND BNA SHOWS EAST WINDS OF ONLY 5KTS IN THE 8K-25K FT LAYER. STORMS SHOULD MOVE A LITTLE FASTER WEST OF I-65, GENERALLY SOUTHWARD AT 10 TO 15 MPH. WILL PROBABLY MENTION "LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE" FOR THE EASTERN HALF OF OUR FORECAST AREA, GENERALLY EAST OF I-65. THE INCREASE IN LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IS EXPECTED TO BE IN RESPONSE TO 850MB LOW PRESSURE AREA DEVELOPING SOUTHWESTWARD OUT OF KENTUCKY, AND WILL BE MOST PRONOUNCED OVER OUR NORTHERN AND EASTERN AREAS BY LATE TODAY. AFTERNOON POPS LOOK REASONABLE FOR TODAY, BUT HAVE TRIMMED A FEW DEGREES OFF MAX TEMP EXPECTATIONS IN THE MOSTLY CLOUDY AREAS. WILL RELEASE UPDATED ZFP SHORTLY. && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 19
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1127 AM CDT FRI MAY 28 2010 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-291630- 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- 1127 AM CDT FRI MAY 28 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER MUCH OF THE MID STATE THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. IN ADDITION... STEERING CURRENTS WILL BE RELATIVELY WEAK OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE AREA, WHICH MEANS THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SLOW-MOVING AND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND PONDING OF WATER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BECOME A MAINSTAY OVER THE SOUTHEAST STATES SATURDAY INTO MONDAY. MORE SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING PULSE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED...SOME WITH STRONG WINDS...HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... REPORTS FROM TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON. SPOTTER THUNDERSTORM REPORTING CRITERIA... TORNADO FUNNEL CLOUD FLOODING HAIL >= 1/2 INCH WINDS > 50 MPH (MEASURED) STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TREES OR POWER LINES DOWN 19
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:06 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Large trees were blown down near the Pelham community along Highway 50.
Hail was reported near the intersection of Highways 108 and 127.
Lewis County 911 Center reported one person was struck by lightning in Holenwald. No additional details were provided on injuries this person sustained due to this lightning strike.
Lewis County 911 Center reported trees were downed in the Swan Avenue section of Hohenwald.
Spotter working at the Columbia Mall estimated wind gusts near 60 mph.
A Sumner County EMA official reported up to one inch diamter hail about 5 miles northeast of Gallatin.
A couple large trees were blown down southwest of Waverly.
Hail around quarter sized fell for a couple minutes near Holladay.
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, May 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: 237496, 237500, 234807, 234805, 237521, 234809, 237508, 237511.