Scattered showers and thunderstorms formed across Middle Tennessee during the afternoon and evening hours on June 20. Several reports of damaging winds and large hail were received.
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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 showers and thunderstorms formed across Middle Tennessee during the afternoon and evening hours on June 20. Several reports of damaging winds and large hail were received.
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 Jun 20, 11:28 AM CST, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1228 PM CDT THU JUN 20 2013 .UPDATE...FOR 18Z AVIATION. && .AVIATION... UPPER TROUGH FROM IOWA SOUTHEAST THROUGH MIDDLE TN WILL SLOWLY MOVE EASTWARD THROUGH THIS TAF PERIOD...PRODUCING ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHRA/TSRA FROM NOW THROUGH ROUGHLY 02Z TONIGHT. KEPT A VCSH/VCTS MENTION IN THE TERMINALS...WITH A TEMPO AT CSV FOR ONGOING NEARBY CONVECTION. WILL MONITOR TRENDS TO SEE IF AMENDMENTS ARE NEEDED TO ADD TEMPOS/PREVAILING SHRA/TSRA IN ELSEWHERE. OTHERWISE...ACTIVITY SHOULD DISSIPATE WITH SUNDOWN AND MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT/CALM WINDS ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT. WITH MORE MOISTURE AROUND...CSV AND MAYBE CKV COULD SEE LIGHT FOG SO INCLUDED A IFR/MVFR VSBY MENTION TOWARD DAWN IN EACH OF THOSE TWO TAF SITES...RESPECTIVELY. RELATIVE REPEAT FORECAST FOR FRIDAY AS WELL...WITH SRLY WINDS AND CU FORMING TOWARD THE END OF THIS TAF PERIOD. FRIDAY CONVECTION AT ANY TERMINALS CAN BE INTRODUCED AT LATER TAF ISSUANCES SINCE MOST OF THE ACTIVITY WOULD AGAIN BE DURING THE PEAK HEATING HOURS AND BEYOND 18Z. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1044 AM CDT THU JUN 20 2013/ UPDATE... WEAK UPPER TROUGH ACROSS THE REGION WILL BRING DOWN A SHORTWAVE LATER TODAY...ELEVATING STABILITY PARAMETERS AND MOISTURE SLIGHTLY. FEW SHOWERS ALREADY POPPING ON THE PLATEAU AND CURRENT MODELS SUGGESTING CONVECTION WILL BE LITTLE MORE NUMEROUS THAN CURRENT FORECAST RUNNING WITH. PLAN TO UP POPS A BIT AND MAKE VERY SMALL TEMP TWEAKS FOR THE AFTERNOON. && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && AL
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 502 AM CDT THU JUN 20 2013 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-211015- 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- 502 AM CDT THU JUN 20 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. 27
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
124 PM CDT THU JUN 20 2013
TNZ007-008-201900-
ROBERTSON-SUMNER-
124 PM CDT THU JUN 20 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR ROBERTSON AND SUMNER COUNTIES...
AT 119 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CROSS PLAINS...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH INCLUDE WHITE HOUSE...ORLINDA...CROSS
PLAINS...COTTONTOWN...PORTLAND AND MITCHELLVILLE.
SMALL HAIL AND OUTFLOW WINDS GUSTING FROM 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3665 8657 3664 8657 3665 8655 3665 8624
3639 8627 3641 8670 3665 8668
TB12The Nashville radar (KOHX), 27 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:28 UTC.
7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Three shallow rotted trees were blown down across Highway 76 northeast of White House.
Several trees and power lines were blown down about 4 miles northeast of Cottontown.
One tree was blown down.
Nickel size hail was reported in Cookeville.
Pea to nickel size hail was reported in Christiana.
A few trees were blown down on McGregor Lane north of Cookeville. Reported via Facebook.
A tree was blown down on Burgess Falls Road.
A tree was blown down on Old Baxter Road.
The metal roof of an old brick building attached to Oranges Market Gas Station on Highway 249 at Bandy Road was lifted off and wrapped around a light pole. Multiple trees were blown down in the area as well.
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, June 2013
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: 460986, 460987, 460988, 460989, 460990, 460991, 460992, 460994, 460993.