Scattered thunderstorms affected Middle Tennessee on August 7th and 8th. A few storms became severe with three reports of damaging winds and large hail.
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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 affected Middle Tennessee on August 7th and 8th. A few storms became severe with three reports of damaging winds and large hail.
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 7, 4:54 PM CST, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 554 PM CDT SUN AUG 7 2011 .MESOSCALE UPDATE... WEAK H5 S/W TROF OVR SW TN W/VERY UNSTABLE AIR ACR THE REGION. INCREASED RAIN CHANCE SOUTH THIS EVE. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 237 PM CDT SUN AUG 7 2011/ DISCUSSION... OVERALL COULD PROBABLY SUM THIS DISCUSSION UP BY SIMPLY SAYING BEWARE OF NORTHWEST FLOWS. THE TENNESSEE VALLEY WILL BE UNDER A NORTHWEST FLOW FOR NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. WILL NEED TO KEEP AN EYE FOR MESO CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS THAT FIRE UPSTREAM AS THEY COULD MAKE A RUN TOWARD MID STATE. SUN HAS MADE IT OUT MOST AREAS THIS AFTERNOON WITH TEMPS IN THE LOWER 90S IN MANY AREAS. SOME ISOLATED SHOWERS LEFT OVER IN EASTERN MIDDLE TN AT MID-AFTERNOON BUT NOT MUCH ON THE RADAR SCOPE. BEEN WATCHING STORMS OVER CENTRAL ARKANSAS. LITTLE ROCK HAD A WIND GUSTS TO 67 KNOTS AT 1846Z. BELIEVE MEAN WIND FIELD COULD CARRY THIS COMPLEX INTO NORTH MISSISSIPPI LATER THIS AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING AS IT CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. WITH ALL THE MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY AROUND EXPECT SCATTERED CONVECTION OVERNIGHT AND DURING THE DAY ON MONDAY IN MID STATE BUT HARD TO KEY ON ANY FEATURES FOR A TRIGGER WITH ALL THE CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK THATS GOING ON. SURFACE FRONT WORKS DOWN INTO MID STATE MONDAY NIGHT SO EXPECT TO SEE MORE SHOWERS AND STORMS MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY. FRONT SLIPS SOUTH OF MID STATE ON WEDNESDAY WHICH MAY BE THE ONLY DAY WITHOUT A REAL CHANCE OF SHOWERS OR STORMS. EUROPEAN HAS MESO CONVECTIVE SYSTEM DIVING SOUTHEAST INTO THE TENNESSEE VALLEY WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. ACTUALLY THE EUROPEAN HAS A SERIES OF MESO CONVECTIVE COMPLEXES DIVING DOWN THROUGH THE TENNESSEE VALLEY BEGINNING WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUING INTO THE WEEKEND. HAVE BACKED MAX TEMPS OFF INTO THE MID AND UPPER 80S FOR MUCH OF THE WORK WEEK. && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 04
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 500 AM CDT SUN AUG 7 2011 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-081000- 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- 500 AM CDT SUN AUG 7 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS LOCATIONS NORTH OF INTERSTATE 40. MAIN CONCERNS WITH STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS AND BREIF HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON MONDAY FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. MAIN CONCERNS WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. .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 31
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:25 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A spotter in Sparta reported large tree limbs blown down.
Trees and power lines were blown down.
A resident on Eaton Hollow Road reported ping pong ball size hail.
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, August 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: 342071, 342072, 342073.