A cluster of severe thunderstorms developed across southern Middle Tennessee during the afternoon hours on August 8. A few reports of wind damage were received.
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A cluster of severe thunderstorms developed across southern Middle Tennessee during the afternoon hours on August 8. A few reports of wind damage 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 8, 2:42 PM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 342 PM CDT FRI AUG 8 2014 .DISCUSSION... FORECAST QUANDARIES...OVERALL WX PATTERN TONIGHT THRU THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK...RAINFALL CHANCES/RAINFALL AMOUNTS...TEMPS. PREFERENCE AND AGREEMENT WITH THE LATEST WPC MODEL DIAGNOSTIC DISCUSSION REASONING WITH A GENERAL LEAN TOWARD THE LATEST EURO SOLUTION THRU THE FORECAST PERIOD UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. A TRICKY FORECAST ANY WAY YOU SLICE IT IN THE SENSE THAT SEVERAL MESOSCALE FACTORS...INCLUDING LOCAL EFFECTS...COME INTO PLAY THIS WEEKEND AND INTO AT LEAST THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK. THIS INCLUDES A MEANDERING WEAK SUMMERTIME SFC FRONTAL BOUNDARY...CONVECTIVE BOUNDARIES FROM PREVIOUS DAYS CONVECTION...DIFFERENTIAL DIURNAL HEATING ASPECTS PER CLOUD COVERAGE BREAKS...AND SHORTWAVE PASSAGES IN DEVELOPING NWLY FLOW PATTERN ALOFT. AS FOR TONIGHT...MAY BREAK OUT A LATE AFTERNOON GROUPING TO DEAL WITH CURRENT RADAR AND SHORT RANGE MODEL TRENDS TIMING OVER THE LATER AFTERNOON HRS...OTHERWISE CONSENSUS OF SHORT RANGE MODELS GENERALLY SHOWING CURRENT CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY ACROSS THE MID STATE...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE SW...MOVING EWD AND DISSIPATING AS THE EVENING HRS PROGRESS AS DIURNAL INFLUENCES BEGIN TO DISSIPATE. FLOW ALOFT WILL BEGIN TO DEVELOP NWLY FLOW CHARACTERISTICS WITH AT LEAST ANOTHER SHORTWAVE IN FLOW APPROACHING THE MID STATE AREA BY 12Z SAT. BELIEVE THAT IN AREAS OVERNIGHT WHERE SHWRS AND TSTMS ARE NOT OCCURRING...AND CUT BACK POPS TO AFTER MIDNIGHT ALSO...PATCHY FOG FORMATION COULD BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME BREAKS IN SKIES ALLOWING FOR DEVELOPMENT PER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE POOLING POTENTIAL. LEANED THE COOLER EURO/GFS VALUES ON LOWS TONIGHT PER CLOUD COVERAGE BREAKAGE POTENTIAL...BUT NOT ACROSS THE PLATEAU REGION WHERE MOST SHWR/TSTM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR. LOOK FOR SLOW MOVING MEANDERING FRONT TO BEGIN TO SHIFT EWD AS THE DAY PROGRESSES ON SAT...WITH ANOTHER SHORTWAVE PASSAGE IN UPPER FLOW EXPECTED...PRECIP WATER VALUES APPROACHING TWO INCHES...PROVIDING FOR NUMEROUS SHWRS/TSTMS BY THE AFTERNOON HRS WITH HIGHS MAINLY IN THE MID 80S. THRU SAT AFTERNOON...GENERALLY EXPECTING RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF BETWEEN ONE HALF OF AN INCH TO AROUND ONE INCH ACROSS THE MID STATE...ESPECIALLY UPPER CUMBERLAND REGION. WITH THE FEW STRONG TSTMS THAT MAY DEVELOP...ESPECIALLY ACROSS WRN PORTIONS OF THE MID STATE WHERE OVERALL DYNAMICS WILL BE MOST ENHANCED...SOME PONDING OF WATER POSSIBLE WITH THE HEAVIER DOWNPOURS...BUT DO NOT ANTICIPATE AN ORGANIZED FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL AS OF THIS TIME WITH HRLY FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE VALUES STILL GENERALLY AROUND TWO INCHES. AS REFERENCED ABOVE...THIS PATTERN WILL CONTINUE THRU AT LEAST TUE NIGHT WITH SCT SHWRS/TSTMS AND TEMPS NEAR CLIMATOLOGICAL NORMS. A MORE SUBSTANTIAL SFC FRONT SYSTEM WILL PUSH THRU PER MIDWEST HIGH PRESSURE INFLUENCES BUILDING INTO THE MID STATE WITH DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED AND TEMPS SLIGHTLY COOLER THAN SEASONABLE NORMAL TEMPS MID WEEK...WARMING UP TO MORE SEASONABLE NORMAL VALUES BY THE END OF THE WORK WEEK. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... NASHVILLE 72 87 72 90 / 50 70 40 40 CLARKSVILLE 70 85 69 90 / 50 70 30 30 CROSSVILLE 69 81 68 84 / 70 70 50 50 COLUMBIA 72 88 72 91 / 40 70 40 40 LAWRENCEBURG 71 87 70 91 / 40 70 50 40 WAVERLY 72 86 70 91 / 40 70 30 30 && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 31
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 524 AM CDT FRI AUG 8 2014 TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-091030- 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- 524 AM CDT FRI AUG 8 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. MOIST AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS MAY RESULT IN A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT...BUT NO WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THE POSSIBILITY OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXTEND THROUGH TUESDAY...BUT NO WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. 27
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees were blown down between Monteagle and Tracy City.
Trees and power lines were blown down in Tracy City.
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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: 534036, 534038.