During the middle to early evening hours on Monday, April 11th, as a strong cold front moved northwest to southeast across Middle Tennessee, several severe thunderstorms developed along and out ahead of this frontal passage. These severe thunderstorms produced thunderstorm wind damage or large hail occurances across six counties in the mid state.
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The episode as NWS OHX wrote it up.
During the middle to early evening hours on Monday, April 11th, as a strong cold front moved northwest to southeast across Middle Tennessee, several severe thunderstorms developed along and out ahead of this frontal passage. These severe thunderstorms produced thunderstorm wind damage or large hail occurances across six 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 Apr 11, 1:40 PM CST, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 240 PM CDT MON APR 11 2011 .DISCUSSION... SCATTERED NON SEVERE CONVECTION ONGOING ACROSS ROUGHLY THE NW HALF OF THE MID STATE. INSTABILITY PARAMETERS HOWEVER...ARE ON THE UPSWING ACROSS THE SE. STRONGER STORMS NOW PARALLEL TO THE MS RIVER. THUS...CONVECTION POTENTIAL IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AS INSTABILITIES INCREASE. GRADIENT WINDS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DECREASE THIS AFTERNOON. THUS...I WILL PULL THE PLUG AND TERMINATE THE WIND ADVISORY JUST BEFORE 4 PM. AS FOR THE WATCH...WILL OPT TO KEEP IT GOING AS THE STRONGEST CONVECTION IS STILL TO OUR WEST. OTW...FOR TONIGHT...CATEGORICAL POPS ARE PENCILED IN FOR NOW AS THE SHOWER AND TSTM THREAT CONTINUES THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON. NOT EXPECTING THE FROPA TO OCCUR UNTIL AROUND 00Z THIS EVENING. UPPER TROUGH IS RATHER PRONOUNCED SO SOME POST FRONTAL MOISTURE IS APPARENT...WITH A PERIOD OF SHOWERS EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT. PARTIAL CLEARING EXPECTED TUES MORNING WITH A RETURN TO MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES IN THE AFTERNOON. ASSOCIATED SFC HIGH TO BE LOCATED IN CLOSE PROXIMITY AROUND 12Z WED. THUS...WILL SEE COOLER TEMPS WITH LOWS GENERALLY 40 TO 45 DEGREES...UPPER 30S PLATEAU. SFC HIGH TO MOVE EAST BY THU AFTERNOON WITH HIGH TEMPS BACK UP TO ABOVE NORMAL. IN THE EXT FCST...UPPER LOW TO DEVELOP OVER THE NATIONS INTERIOR BY WEEK'S END. THIS FEATURE WILL CLOSE OFF AND THEREBY CREATE A RATHER NON PROGRESSIVE PATTERN FOR OUR AREA. WE'LL FINALLY GET A FROPA AND PRE FRONTAL FROPA THROUGH HERE THIS WEEKEND. WILL THEREFORE INCLUDE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS FOR THU NT INTO FRIDAY. HEIGHTS TO REMAIN SUPPRESSED INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL TEMPS EXPECTED. WE'LL THROW IN A LOW CHANCE OF SHOWERS FOR NEXT MONDAY AS A WEAK BOUNDARY SLIDES OUR WAY. AGAINST THE MEX GUIDANCE...WILL UNDERCUT MAX TEMPS FOR THE LATTER PORTION OF THE EXT. .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... NASHVILLE 53 67 43 73 / 60 10 05 05 CLARKSVILLE 50 66 41 72 / 50 10 05 05 CROSSVILLE 50 61 38 67 / 80 30 05 05 COLUMBIA 53 68 43 73 / 60 10 05 05 LAWRENCEBURG 52 69 42 72 / 60 10 05 05 WAVERLY 52 67 42 73 / 50 10 05 05 && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 21
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 837 AM CDT MON APR 11 2011 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-121030- 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- 837 AM CDT MON APR 11 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE TODAY AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING ON THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH THE MID-STATE PRODUCING A SQUALL LINE...THAT MAY CONTAIN DAMAGING STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. ADDITIONALLY... ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION 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 07
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was downed across U.S. Highway 412 near Linden.
In the community of Littlelot, several 2 inch diameter trees were downed and a small outbuilding was also damaged. Specific information concerning the amount of damage and associated cost were unknown.
A tree was reported downed on Hillsborough Road near Black Horse Parkway.
Penny size hail was reported at Providence Place.
Several trees were downed and shingles where blown of several homes in Smartt.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, April 2011
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: 300838, 300840, 300902, 291414, 291415, 300835.