Scattered thunderstorms moved westward across Middle Tennessee during the afternoon hours on September 5. A few reports of wind damage were received in the Nashville metro area.
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The episode as NWS OHX wrote it up.
Scattered thunderstorms moved westward across Middle Tennessee during the afternoon hours on September 5. A few reports of wind damage were received in the Nashville metro area.
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 Sep 5, 1:36 PM CST, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 236 PM CDT SAT SEP 5 2015 .DISCUSSION... DIURNALLY DRIVEN SCATTERED AFTERNOON CONVECTION HAS DEVELOPED MAINLY IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AREAS AS OF 2 PM...BUT A FEW ISOLATED SHOWERS/TSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED WEST OF INTERSTATE 65 AND UP INTERSTATE 24 TOWARDS CLARKSVILLE. CONVECTION ON EASTERN SIDE OF UPPER RIDGE CENTERED OVER SOUTHERN PLAINS. EXPECT CONVECTION TO PLAY OUT AFTER SUNSET. LOOK FOR ANOTHER MILD AND MUGGY NIGHT HERE IN THE MID STATE. BASICALLY A REPEAT ON SUNDAY WITH ANOTHER VERY WARM DAY. UPPER RIDGE DOMINATES OUR AREA AS GO INTO THE FIRST OF NEXT WEEK WITH STORM TRACK REMAINING ACROSS NORTHERN TIER OF U.S. BEFORE BUCKLING WHICH WILL ALLOW FOR A FRONTAL SYSTEM TO MOVE THIS WAY BRINGING SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM CHANCES BEGINNING ON WEDNESDAY AND CONTINUING THROUGH FRIDAY. FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVES ACROSS OUR AREA ON FRIDAY FOLLOWED BY COOLER TEMPS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... NASHVILLE 70 93 69 91 / 10 20 10 10 CLARKSVILLE 68 93 68 91 / 0 10 10 10 CROSSVILLE 66 83 65 84 / 20 30 10 20 COLUMBIA 69 93 68 91 / 10 20 10 10 LAWRENCEBURG 68 90 68 89 / 10 20 10 10 WAVERLY 69 93 69 91 / 0 10 10 10 && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && BOYD 01
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 503 AM CDT SAT SEP 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- 503 AM CDT SAT SEP 5 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. 55
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 9 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:06 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
An NWS employee reported a sign at the Arby's restaurant on Mount Juliet Road in Mount Juliet was blown down. The NWS employee estimated winds around 55 mph.
A few trees were snapped near Percy Priest Lake and some tree branches and signs were blown down around the I-40 and Old Hickory Blvd. interchange. Two NWS employees in the area estimated winds up to 50 mph.
One old tree and a few large tree limbs were blown down near the Nashville International Airport.
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, September 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: 597477, 597486, 597489.