Numerous showers and thunderstorms affected Middle Tennessee during the afternoon hours on August 5. A few storms became strong and severe, and produced several reports of wind damage.
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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.
Numerous showers and thunderstorms affected Middle Tennessee during the afternoon hours on August 5. A few storms became strong and severe, and produced several reports of wind damage.
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 5, 11:32 AM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1232 PM CDT WED AUG 5 2015 .UPDATE... FOR 18Z AVIATION. && .DISCUSSION... SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FINALLY MOVED INTO OUR NORTHWEST COUNTIES THIS MORNING. THIS PRECIP WILL CONTINUE TO TRAVERSE OUR NORTHERN COUNTIES THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE MORNING HOURS. UNFORTUNATELY THIS IS GOING TO PLAY HAVOC WITH OUR AFTERNOON HIGHS...BUT IT WILL HELP TO COOL THINGS OFF FOR SURE. MANY SPOTS NORTH OF I-40 WILL STRUGGLE TO REACH 90 TODAY BECAUSE OF THE RAIN. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED ATTM...BUT IF ONE OR TWO UPDRAFTS CAN GET TALL ENOUGH...AN ISOLATED WET MICROBURST IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION SO REMAIN WEATHER AWARE TODAY. LATEST SHORT TERM HI-RES GUIDANCE IS SUGGESTING A MID-AFTERNOON LULL BEFORE ANOTHER WAVE BRINGS IN ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS EVENING. THESE STORMS SHOULD BE OF A SIMILAR ILK TO WHAT WE ARE SEEING THIS MORNING. RAINFALL TOTALS MAY BE IN THE 0.25-0.75 INCH RANGE FOR SOME NORTH OF I-40 PRIOR TO MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. UPDATES ON THE WAY. UNGER && .AVIATION... 18Z TAF DISCUSSION. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALREADY AFFECTING KCSV/KCKV...AND SOON KBNA. PERIODIC REDUCTIONS TO IFR EXPECTED THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS WITH THESE STORMS. WINDS WILL GUST TO 25 KTS WITH THEM AS WELL. VFR FLIGHT CATEGORIES SHOULD RETURN BY 00Z FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS. MORE STORMS THIS EVENING AND THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT WILL HELP TO DROP VIS AND CIGS FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS TOO. CONDITIONS WILL SLOWLY BEGIN TO IMPROVE AFTER 18Z THURSDAY. UNGER && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 513 AM CDT WED AUG 5 2015 TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-061015- 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- 513 AM CDT WED AUG 5 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE TODAY...WITH ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND STORMS MOVING ACROSS WEDNESDAY NIGHT. A FEW STORMS MAY BE STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE ON THURSDAY. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE MID STATE ON THURSDAY. A FEW STORMS MAY CONTAIN DAMAGING WINDS ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. SHAMBURGER
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 64 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:41 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Facebook reports indicated trees were blown down across Spring Hill, with a CoCoRaHS observer reporting several trees uprooted and broken 2 miles NE of Spring Hill.
Two 12-inch diameter trees were blown down 8 miles ENE of Murfreesboro.
Trees were blown down in Alexandria.
Twitter reports indicated trees were blown down along Cookeville Highway near Silver Point.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, August 2015
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: 596589, 596590, 596591, 596592.