A complex of severe thunderstorms producing damaging winds and cloud to ground lightning developed in west Tennessee and moved east into Middle Tennessee during the afternoon and evening hours.
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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.
A complex of severe thunderstorms producing damaging winds and cloud to ground lightning developed in west Tennessee and moved east into Middle Tennessee during the afternoon and evening hours.
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 Jul 14, 2:14 PM CST, 6 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 314 PM CDT MON JUL 14 2014 .DISCUSSION... STORMS ORGANIZING AS WE SPEAK JUST W OF THE TN RIVER/N OF I-40. STORMS ARE DVLPNG IN AXIS OF 3000+ J/KG CAPE AND VERY HIGH (2+ INCH) PWAT AIR. WIND SHEAR IS RELATIVELY WEAK...20-25 KT 0-6KM BULK SHEAR...BUT SUFFICIENT FOR STORM ORGANIZATION GIVEN THE INSTABILITY AND ALREADY DVLPNG COLD POOL BEHIND ONGOING STORMS. SVR THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREAT. LOCALIZED FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL CONTINUES AS WELL GIVEN SLOW MOVEMENT OF STORMS AND VERY HIGH ATMOSPHERIC MSTR CONTENT. SVR POTENTIAL SHOULD BACK OFF AFTER MIDNIGHT BUT STORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE AS THE ACTUAL FRONT MOVES THRU. FRONT SHOULD CLEAR NASHVILLE BEFORE 12Z AND OUR FAR SE COUNTIES BY 18Z AT THE LATEST. WL CARRY LOW POPS UNTIL THE FRONT PASSES...THEN A COUPLE DRY AND PLEASANT DAYS ARE IN STORE AS AN UNSEASONABLY COOL AIRMASS BUILDS IN. HIGHS WILL STRUGGLE TO REACH 80S AT MOST LOCATIONS TUE AND WED WITH LOW HUMIDITY. ISENTROPIC LIFT BEGINS LATE THU AND INTENSIFIES INTO FRIDAY AS MSTR SURGES BACK INTO THE COOL AIRMASS IN PLACE. ALL MODELS SUGGEST WIDESPREAD PCPN WILL OCCUR AND HV RAISED POPS INTO THE LIKELY CATEGORY TO ACCOUNT. DEEPEST MSTR EXITS ON SATURDAY BUT ENOUGH MSTR WILL HANG AROUND TO KEEP LOW POPS GOING THROUGH THE WEEKEND. IN FACT THE GENERAL PATTERN....NW FLOW ALOFT AND/OR BROAD WEAKNESS IN THE MID LVL RIDGE...WILL SUPPORT STORM CHANCES THRU THE EXTENDED AND BEYOND && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... NASHVILLE 70 80 58 81 / 80 20 10 05 CLARKSVILLE 65 78 55 79 / 80 10 05 05 CROSSVILLE 66 76 54 76 / 80 60 10 10 COLUMBIA 70 82 58 82 / 80 30 10 05 LAWRENCEBURG 70 83 58 82 / 80 30 10 05 WAVERLY 66 79 55 80 / 80 10 05 05 && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && JOHNSTONE
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 215 PM CDT MON JUL 14 2014 TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-151915- 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- 215 PM CDT MON JUL 14 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE MID STATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY BE STRONG TO SEVERE... WITH DAMAGING WINDS POSSIBLE. HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. LOCALIZED AMOUNTS OF 2-4 INCHES MAY OCCUR WHERE SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS REPEATEDLY MOVE OVER THE SAME AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... REPORTS FROM TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED. SPOTTER THUNDERSTORM REPORTING CRITERIA... TORNADO FUNNEL CLOUD FLOODING HAIL >= 1/2 INCH WINDS > 50 MPH (MEASURED) STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TREES OR POWER LINES DOWN 07
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:21 UTC.
7 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was reported down on Scepter Road west of Waverly.
A tree was reported down on Clydeton Road northwest of Waverly.
An 18 inch tree was reported down at Wickle Road and Franklin Road in Brentwood.
A downed tree and another large tree limb were reported near the Cool Springs Galleria Mall in Franklin via Facebook.
A tree was reportedly blown down in the McKays Mill Subdivision in Franklin via Facebook.
Large tree limbs were reportedly blown down in the Jordan Acres Area of Smyrna via Facebook.
Lightning struck a garage on Percy Priest Drive causing a fire.
Several trees were reported down on North Spring Street in Sparta.
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, July 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: 521302, 521306, 521307, 521308, 521309, 521312, 521297, 521313.