As a broad area of showers and thunderstorms developed and continued moving across Middle Tennessee on Saturday, March 26th, some thunderstorms reached severe thresholds. This resulted in multiple hail reports across the area, and thunderstorm wind damage in Coffee County.
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The episode as NWS OHX wrote it up.
As a broad area of showers and thunderstorms developed and continued moving across Middle Tennessee on Saturday, March 26th, some thunderstorms reached severe thresholds. This resulted in multiple hail reports across the area, and thunderstorm wind damage in Coffee County.
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 Mar 25, 11:08 PM CST, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1208 AM CDT SAT MAR 26 2011 .UPDATE...FOR 26/06Z AVIATION FORECAST && .AVIATION... BEGINNING TO SEE SHOWER ACTIVITY INCREASING OVER NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI AS ADVERTISED BY EARLIER MODELS INCLUDING GFS AND RAPID UPDATE (HRRR). CRAS ALSO BREAKS RAIN OUT FIRST ACROSS NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT AND WORKS IT ACROSS SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE NEAR ALABAMA BORDER IN THE OVERNIGHT. QUASI-STATIONARY FRONT ACROSS NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI AND NORTHERN ALABAMA. FRONT WILL SLIP SLOWLY NORTHWARD BUT NOT MUCH FARTHER THAN THE ALABAMA BORDER. THEREFORE WILL ONLY MENTION LIGHT RAIN IN BOTH BNA AND CSV THROUGH THE PERIOD. EXPECT ANY TSTMS TO REMAIN OVER SOUTHERN AREAS. BOYD && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 918 PM CDT FRI MAR 25 2011/ DISCUSSION...CURRENT PRECIP HAS THINNED OUT A GOOD DEAL IN THE PAST FEW HOURS. FRONT IS STILL WELL TO THE SOUTH OVER NORTH MS/AL/GA. ALL MODELS REDEVELOP PRECIP OVER THE AREA OF THE FRONT AND A FEW DEGREES TO THE NORTH OF THE FRONT LATE TONIGHT. HAD CONSIDERED LOWERING POPS...BUT DIDN'T WANT TO GIVE THE WRONG IMPRESSION SINCE THE SFC LOW IS STILL TO OUR SOUTHWEST...OVER THE ARKLATEX. MORE PRECIP SHOULD DEVELOP BY 09-10Z OVER THE AREA WITH PRECIP CONTINUING THROUGH THE DAY TOMORROW AS THE SFC LOW MOVES ENEWD ACROSS NORTHERN MS/AL/GA. WILL KEEP THE CURRENT ZONE PACKAGE WITH THE EXPECTATION OF MORE PRECIP TO COME. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 650 PM CDT FRI MAR 25 2011/ UPDATE...FOR 26/00Z AVIATION FORECAST AVIATION... QUASI-STATIONARY FRONT LAYING BETWEEN HUNTSVILLE AND BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA THEN BACK TO JUST NORTH OF TUPELO MISSISSIPPI...TO JUST SOUTH OF MEMPHIS...THEN BACK ACROSS SOUTHERN ARKANSAS INTO NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA. TEMPS JUST NORTH OF THE FRONT ARE CHILLY AND IN THE 40S ACROSS TENNESSEE WHILE JUST SOUTH OF THE FRONT TEMPS ARE IN THE 60S AND 70S. WILL NEED TO KEEP CLOSE TABS ON FRONTAL POSITION NEXT 24 HOURS AS MUCH OF THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER WILL BE FOCUSED ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. EVERYTHING I'VE LOOKED AT TELLS ME THE FRONT WILL REMAIN GENERALLY ACROSS NORTH ALABAMA...POSSIBLY REACHING THE TENNESSEE/ALABAMA BORDER SATURDAY EVENING. BOYD PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 343 PM CDT FRI MAR 25 2011/ DISCUSSION... IN THE NEAR SHORT TERM...THE EURO MODEL CLEARLY HAS THE BEST GRASP ON THIS CURRENT SYSTEM. MODELS ARE LOOKING AS THOUGH THEY WILL MATCH UP A LITTLE BETTER OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS HOWEVER. STILL EXPECTING OVERRUNNING TO CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT. WE HAD A FEW REPORTS OF ICE PELLETS ACROSS OUR NORTHWEST EARLIER TODAY. A CLOSE LOOK AT THE SOUNDING DOES INDICATE WET BULB WARMING WITH TIME INTO THIS EVENING. THUS...NOT EXPECTING MUCH MORE IN THE WAY OF ANY ICE PELLET ACTIVITY. UPCOMING STORM SYSTEM IS STILL EXPECTED TO BRING RAINFALL TO THE AREA SATURDAY INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. THE STORM TRACK APPEARS TO BE A SOUTHERLY ONE WHEREBY THE LOW WILL TRACK ACROSS NORTHERN AL. THIS WILL EQUATE TO A LESSER CHANCE OF TSTMS WHILE TEMPS WILL BE COOLER. A LOOK AT ALL THE MODELS SUPPORT THE SOUTHERLY TRACK. THEREFORE...FOR THE FORECAST I WILL INCLUDE JUST A CHANCE OF T SOUTH AND NO T NORTH. RAINFALL AMOUNTS LOOK AS THOUGH A HALF INCH OR SO CAN BE EXPECTED AT MOST AREAS FOR TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NT. THE SHOWERS WILL END EARLY SUNDAY. FOR THE NEAR TERM TEMPS...I WILL BE UNDERCUTTING THE MAV MAX TEMPS...PARTICULARLY ON SATURDAY AS A WET AND RAW PATTERN WILL REMAIN. IN THE EXT FCST...A RETURN FLOW WITH A SHORT LIVED WARMING TREND WILL SET UP ON MONDAY. A STORM SYSTEM WILL THEN PULL ACROSS THE MID MS VALLEY AND TRACK ACROSS KY BY WEDNESDAY. THIS WILL BRING SHOWERS AND TSTMS BACK TO THE AREA FOR THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK. THIS SYSTEM WILL PLACE THE MID STATE IN MORE OF THE WARM SECTOR. THUS...IT WILL NEED TO BE WATCHED FOR THE POTENTIAL OF SVR STORMS. OTW...HIGH TEMPS WILL DROP BACK DOWN INTO THE 50S BY THE END OF THE WEEK. && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 01
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 506 AM CDT FRI MAR 25 2011 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-251815- 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- 506 AM CDT FRI MAR 25 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... A WARM FRONT WILL LIFT NORTHWARD...ACROSS NORTHERN ALABAMA...LATE TONIGHT. THIS WILL SPREAD THUNDERSTORMS INTO SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE MID STATE AFTER MIDNIGHT. A FEW STORMS OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHWEST COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... A WARM FRONT WILL REMAIN NEAR...OR OVER...SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ON SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM PUSHES EASTWARD OUT OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS... WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...MAY DEVELOP...ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE MID STATE. IN ADDITION...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY CAUSE PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS. ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE MID STATE TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...AND CREATE ANOTHER POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. .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 19
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 207 AM CDT SAT MAR 26 2011 TNZ093>095-260800- GILES-LAWRENCE-WAYNE- 207 AM CDT SAT MAR 26 2011 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR GILES...LAWRENCE AND WAYNE COUNTIES... AT 200 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF SAVANNAH...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. BETWEEN NOW AND 300 AM...YOU CAN EXPECT THIS STORM TO TRACK ACROSS SOUTHERN PARTS OF WAYNE AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES...REACHING COLLINWOOD AT ABOUT 230 AM...THE LAWRENCEBURG AREA BY 250 AM...AND PULASKI SHORTLY AFTER 300 AM. BRIEF WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH BRIEF TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...AND POSSIBLY HAIL. 19
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 125 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:57 UTC.
7 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
In Loretto, hail was covering the ground with some hail up to the size of golf balls. This hail was reported by the Loretto Police Department.
Downed power lines and trees occurred across the city of Manchester.
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, March 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: 288550, 288542, 288545, 288546, 288557, 288796, 288554, 288555.