A line of showers and thunderstorms moved across Middle Tennessee during the morning hours in association with a cold front. Isolated wind damage was reported with the line near Nashville.
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The episode as NWS OHX wrote it up.
A line of showers and thunderstorms moved across Middle Tennessee during the morning hours in association with a cold front. Isolated wind damage was reported with the line near Nashville.
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 24, 6:13 AM CST, 37 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 713 AM CDT WED APR 24 2013 .UPDATE...FOR 12Z TAFS. && .AVIATION... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING BRINGING WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. CEILINGS/VSBYS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PCPN WILL DROP TO MVFR AND BRIEFLY IFR RANGES BEFORE IMPROVING LATER TODAY/EARLY THIS EVENING. WHILE ALL SITES EXPECTED TO CLEAR TONIGHT...FOG/LOW CLOUDS MAY REDEVELOP CSV TOWARD 12Z THU WITH LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE SLOW TO DRY. SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL BE GUSTY AHEAD OF FRONT...AS WELL AS BRIEFLY BEHIND AS WINDS SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 329 AM CDT WED APR 24 2013/ DISCUSSION... NQA RADAR CLEARLY SHOWING THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY WHICH IS NOW ENTERING OUR FAR NWRN COUNTIES. SHOWERS AND A FEW TSTMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG THE BOUNDARY. THE TREND SHOULD BE A CONTINUING INCREASE IN COVERAGE ALTHOUGH INSTABILITY LEVELS WILL DECLINE SOME TOWARD 12Z. THUS...FORECAST FOR TODAY WILL INCLUDE LIKELY TO DEF POPS FOR THIS MORNING...WITH DECREASING POPS BY AFTERNOON FROM WEST TO EAST. STILL LOOKING AT SCT TSTMS AS BEING POSSIBLE THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS. WEAKENING INSTABILITY AXIS WILL CLEAR OUR CWA BY MIDDAY WITH A FEW RESIDUAL SHOWERS STILL POSSIBLE. DESPITE THE EXPECTED STRENGTHENING TREND...GFS APPEARS TO BE OVERDOING THE QPF RETURNS. WILL THEREFORE LEAN TOWARD THE NAM WHICH INCLUDES QPF AMOUNTS OF 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH WITH THIS SYSTEM. OTHERWISE...COOLER AIR TO PREVAIL TODAY. ONCE THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH...TEMPS SHOULD FALL QUICKLY INTO THE 50S AND REMAIN THERE THROUGH TODAY. A COLD NIGHT TONIGHT WITH PERHAPS SOME PATCHY FROST ACROSS THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU AREA. IT MAY BE A LITTLE TOUGHER TO GET THE FROST ELSEWHERE. OVERNIGHT LOWS LOOK LIKE UPPER 30S TO NEAR 40 FOR BNA AND CKV...MID TO UPPER 30S PLATEAU. SFC HIGH WILL BE IN CLOSE PROXIMITY FOR THU MORNING AND THUS...SOME OF THE LOW LYING PLATEAU AREAS COULD SEE THE PATCHY FROST. TEMPS TO SLOWLY REBOUND INTO THIS WEEKEND. FOR THE EXT FCST...SOUTHERLY SFC FLOW TO PREVAIL THROUGHOUT THE EXTENDED AS THE SFC HIGH...MENTIONED ABOVE...MOVES EAST. SFC WARM FRONT TO LIFT NORTHWARD SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. WITH WEAK UPPER TROUGHING WORKING AS WELL...WILL SEE SHOWER AND TSTM POSSIBILITIES FOR THE WEEKEND. ACTIVITY IS NOT LOOKING SEVERE HOWEVER AS ORGANIZED OMEGA FIELD AND A STRONG 850 MB FLOW ARE LACKING FROM THE EQUATION. POPS WILL LOWER FOR MON AND TUE AS THE WARM FRONT FALLS APART. HOWEVER...WEAK UPPER TROUGHING TO REMAIN WITH DESCENT MOISTURE IN PLACE. FOR THE EXT TEMPS...WITH SOUTHERLY WINDS IN PLACE THROUGH THE PERIOD...TEMPS WILL RUN ABOUT 3-5 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 07
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 511 AM CDT WED APR 24 2013 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-251030- 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- 511 AM CDT WED APR 24 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT PATCHY FROST IS POSSIBLE ON THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU LATE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. 07
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 33 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:50 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree fell and completely blocked Sycamore Creek Road.
A tree fell onto a car and completely blocked Clay Lick Road near Joelton.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, April 2013
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