Widespread rain and thunderstorms spread across Middle Tennessee during the afternoon and evening hours on August 30. Several reports of flash flooding were received.
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Widespread rain and thunderstorms spread across Middle Tennessee during the afternoon and evening hours on August 30. Several reports of flash flooding 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 Aug 30, 1:35 PM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 235 PM CDT SAT AUG 30 2014 .UPDATE...TO FURTHER ADDRESS RAINFALL POTENTIAL TONIGHT AND SUNDAY FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE... WEATHER PREDICTION CENTER HAS UPDATED THEIR QPF PRODUCTS GIVING MIDDLE TENNESSEE SOME PRETTY HEFTY RAINFALL AMOUNTS TONIGHT AND FIRST HALF OF SUNDAY. AMOUNTS ARE FORECAST TO TOTAL AROUND 2 INCHES ALONG AND 30 MILES EITHER SIDE OF AN AXIS FROM WAYNESBORO TO NASHVILLE TO GALLATIN THROUGH NOON SUNDAY WITH UPWARDS OF 2.5 INCHES THROUGH 00Z MONDAY. LESSER AMOUNTS ALONG THE PLATEAU WHERE 0.75 INCH IS FORECAST TO FALL THROUGH 18Z SUNDAY. THIS LOOKS TO BE BASED ON BEST MOISTURE TRANSPORT WHICH WILL BE INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. THIS ALSO IN ASSOCIATION WITH STRONG UPPER DIFFLUENCE OVER THE AREA. RAINFALL OF THIS MAGNITUDE WILL CAUSE CREEKS AND STREAMS TO RISE ALONG WITH THE USUAL PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE NUMBERS ARE STILL PRETTY HIGH SO WE CAN HANDLE A LITTLE WATER. THE PROBLEM COULD COME IF WE GET TRAINING OF ECHOES (THUNDERSTORMS) ACROSS THE SAME AREA. FOR NOW WILL HOLD OFF ON ISSUING A FLASH FLOOD WATCH BUT WILL PASS ALONG TO EVENING CREW TO RE-EVALUATE THE SITUATION AS NEW MODEL DATA ARRIVES ALONG WITH GUIDANCE FROM ABOVE. BOYD && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 157 PM CDT SAT AUG 30 2014/ DISCUSSION... DEEP MOISTURE PLUME WILL CONTINUE TO STREAM NORTHWARD FROM WESTERN GULF OF MEXICO THIS WEEKEND AS UPPER TROUGH HOLDS FAST TO OUR NORTHWEST PROVIDING A SERIES OF SHORT WAVES THAT WILL SWING ACROSS OUR AREA TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS TOTAL LING 1 TO 1.5 INCHES WILL BE WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE MID STATE THROUGH 12Z MONDAY WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. TEMPS WILL HELD DOWN ON SUNDAY BY CLOUDS AND RAIN BUT WILL CLIMB INTO THE 90S BEGINNING ON LABOR DAY AS RAIN CHANCES BACK OFF TO MORE OF A SCATTERED VARIETY AS UPPER RIDGE BUILDS IN OVER THE AREA SHUTTING OFF MOIST PLUME FROM GULF REGION. BY WEDNESDAY UPPER PATTERN BECOMES MORE ZONAL TO OUR NORTH WITH WESTERLIES HAVING MOVED TO A HIGHER LATITUDE ALLOWING UPPER RIDGE TO SPRAWL ACROSS THE SOUTHERN U.S. HIGHS IN THE 90S WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WORK WEEK WITH A CHANCE FOR SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS JUST ABOUT EACH DAY. && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && BOYD 01
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 501 PM CDT SAT AUG 30 2014 TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-312215- STEWART-MONTGOMERY-ROBERTSON-SUMNER-MACON-CLAY-PICKETT-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- 501 PM CDT SAT AUG 30 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS EVENING BRINGING THE POSSIBILITY FOR VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...ENOUGH TO REDUCE DRIVING VISIBILITIES AND RESULT IN LOCALIZED PONDING ON ROADWAYS...AS WELL AS GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MPH. THIS ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH MUCH OF THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AND INTO TOMORROW MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. SUNDAY MORNING WILL CONTINUE TO SEE SHOWER ACTIVITY IN THE AREA FROM THE PREVIOUS NIGHT. THE CONTINUED RAIN ACTIVITY MAY RESULT IN SOME MINOR FLOODING CONCERNS IN THE AREAS THAT HAVE RECEIVED THE MOST RAINFALL. TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS THROUGH SUNDAY MAY REACH UP TO 2.5 INCHES WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS. TB12
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
422 PM CDT SAT AUG 30 2014
TNZ061>063-075-302200-
BEDFORD-CANNON-MARSHALL-RUTHERFORD-
422 PM CDT SAT AUG 30 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BEDFORD...CANNON...MARSHALL AND
RUTHERFORD COUNTIES...
...THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE AREA
THROUGH 5 PM CDT...
AT 412 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA...PRODUCING HEAVY
DOWNPOURS. SOME SPOTS WILL LIKELY SEE SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
PASS OVER...WITH HEAVY RAINS PRODUCING PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING
AND POORLY DRAINED AREAS. AREAS THAT HAVE ALREADY SEEN HEAVY RAINS
COULD SEE AN ADDITIONAL ONE HALF TO ONE INCH BY 5 PM.
LOCATIONS MOST LIKELY TO SEE THE HEAVIEST RAINS WILL BE BETWEEN
CHAPEL HILL...ROCKVALE...CHRISTIANA...BEECHGROVE AND SHELBYVILLE.
LAT...LON 3544 8671 3558 8681 3600 8643 3593 8611
3570 8622 3569 8625 3566 8624 3541 8636
19SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
533 PM CDT SAT AUG 30 2014
TNZ060-061-302315-
MARSHALL-MAURY-
533 PM CDT SAT AUG 30 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MARSHALL AND MAURY COUNTIES...
AT 530 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
THUNDERSTORMS...WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS...TRAINING UP ACROSS EASTERN
PARTS OF MAURY COUNTY AND WESTERN PARTS OF MARSHALL COUNTY. SOME
SPOTS WILL LIKELY SEE SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PASS OVER THIS
AFTERNOON...WITH HEAVY RAINS PRODUCING PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING
AND POORLY DRAINED AREAS. AREAS THAT HAVE ALREADY SEEN HEAVY RAINS
COULD SEE AN ADDITIONAL ONE HALF TO ONE INCH LATE THIS AFTERNOON.
MOTORISTS SHOULD DRIVE WITH APPROPRIATE CAUTION.
MUCH OF THE AREA RECEIVING THESE HEAVY RAINS IS NEAR THE INTERSTATE
65 CORRIDOR.
LAT...LON 3547 8704 3575 8689 3574 8686 3572 8684
3572 8682 3570 8677 3571 8677 3571 8673
3569 8666 3543 8684
19The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:59 UTC.
4 flash flood, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A creek in Pulaski overflowed its banks and flooded adjacent roadways.
Heavy rainfall resulted in flash flooding across parts of Nashville. A man was swept away into a creek around 7pm in Madison between 2nd Avenue and Elm Street. He was rescued at 1245am on August 31 but only had minor injuries. In southeast Nashville, Murfreesboro Road was flooded between Vultee Drive and Glengarry Drive.
North Cross Bridge Road at Morel Road was flooded and impassable.
South Jefferson Avenue at Veterans Drive was flooded with one car stranded.
McGhee Street and Memory Garden Road in Jamestown were flooded but still passable.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, August 2014
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: 534763, 534764, 534765, 534766, 534767.