As a line of showers and thunderstorms moved across Middle Tennessee during the early evening hours on Thursday, January 26th, a couple of thunderstorms reached severe thresholds over Wayne and Williamson Counties respectively, resulting in thunderstorm wind damage.
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The episode as NWS OHX wrote it up.
As a line of showers and thunderstorms moved across Middle Tennessee during the early evening hours on Thursday, January 26th, a couple of thunderstorms reached severe thresholds over Wayne and Williamson Counties respectively, resulting in thunderstorm wind damage.
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 Jan 26, 6:15 PM CST, 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 615 PM CST THU JAN 26 2012 .UPDATE...ADDED AVIATION FOR 00Z TAF'S. && .AVIATION...BNA/CSV...COLD FRONT PUSHING ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS EVENING, BRINGING ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AND LOW CIGS. BELIEVE PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL REMAIN STRONG ENOUGH TO KEEP MOST OF THE FOG AWAY TONIGHT. BUT LOW CIGS WILL LIKELY STICK AROUND UNTIL FRIDAY MORNING. WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NW TONIGHT AND SHOULD REMAIN 7-9 KTS UNTIL FRIDAY AFTERNOON. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 145 PM CST THU JAN 26 2012/ DISCUSSION... COMPLEX SURFACE MAP THIS AFTERNOON WITH LOW PRESSURE CENTERED OVER WESTERN TENNESSEE AND OVER CENTRAL INDIANA AND OHIO WITH FRONTAL BOUNDARIES CONNECTING. LITTLE MOVEMENT IN SURFACE SYSTEM LAST 6 HOURS. RADAR SHOWING NEWLY DEVELOPED LINE OF CONVECTION ALONG TENNESSEE RIVER DOWN INTO EASTERN MISSISSIPPI. ELEVATED THUNDER POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING IN MID STATE AS SURFACE SYSTEM SWEEPS EASTWARD. SHOWERS ENDING FROM THE WEST IN THE OVERNIGHT. MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT OUT TO ABOUT 96 HOURS THEN DIVERGE WITH EURO TAKING ON A WARMER SOUTHERN STREAM SCENARIO. AFTER TONIGHT RAIN CHANCES LOOK SLIM UNTIL ABOUT WEDNESDAY HOWEVER THERE IS A SLIGHT RAIN CHANCE NEAR THE KENTUCKY BORDER ON SATURDAY AS WEAK FRONT TRAVERSES THE REGION. A BETTER CHANCE FOR RAIN WILL COME ABOUT MID WEEK ON WEDNESDAY AS A STRONGER PACIFIC FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. NO MAJOR TEMPERATURE CHANGES NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && ROSE
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 427 AM CST THU JAN 26 2012 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-271130- 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- 427 AM CST THU JAN 26 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL EXPECTED TODAY AND THIS EVENING MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE EXPECTED...WITH ISOLATED POCKETS IN THE 2 TO 3 INCH RANGE. THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO OCCUR BUT ARE EXPECTED TO BE BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS AND LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE. 07
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 149 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:29 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees were blown down in and around Waynesboro.
Two homes suffered loss of shingles from their roofs, a single vehicle carport along with a one 5th-wheel trailer was destroyed, and a camper flipped over along Lewisburg Pike just south of Thompsons Station Road.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2012Every state in 2012This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, January 2012
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: 356327, 356328.