Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms affected Middle Tennessee from the evening hours on June 23 into the early morning hours of June 24. Several reports of wind damage and minor flooding were received.
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The episode as NWS OHX wrote it up.
Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms affected Middle Tennessee from the evening hours on June 23 into the early morning hours of June 24. Several reports of wind damage and minor 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 Jun 23, 7:49 PM CST, 44 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Nashville TN 849 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2016 .UPDATE... FOR EVENING DISCUSSION. && .DISCUSSION... At update time, we're still waiting for a line of showers and thunderstorms oriented west to east across southern KY to push into northern counties of Middle Tennessee. These storms have had a history of producing damaging straight line winds and even one cell has had a very impressive supercell structure and strong rotation associated with it. This line will press south and southeastward over the next couple of hours and while the severe weather parameters are not as impressive over the mid-state (instability waning as the sun goes down and weaker bulk shear values), we still could see a couple of severe thunderstorm warnings. The main threat will still be damaging straight line winds for our northeast counties for the next couple of hours. Made some updates a little while ago which went to increasing PoPs, otherwise the current forecast is on track. && .AVIATION... 00Z TAF DISCUSSION. BNA/CKV/CSV...A cold front is situated to our north this evening with an E-W oriented line of convection rolling southward across KY. Convection may or may not make it this far south. Model guidance hints at scattered POP's mainly during the evening, and HRRR does suggest some activity later this evening and overnight, but not nearly as strong as the current storms. Will handle with VCTS in the terminals for now. FROPA will occur during the morning, with MVFR fog possible closer to 12Z and a wind shift to the WNW with the FROPA. && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && DISCUSSION......Unger AVIATION........08
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 142 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2016 TNZ005-006-023>025-241030- STEWART-MONTGOMERY-HOUSTON-HUMPHREYS-DICKSON- 142 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...WITH AN EXPECTATION FOR MAXIMUM HEAT INDEX VALUES TO REACH 105 TO 108 DEGREES. HOT WEATHER SAFETY WILL BE OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE. A COLD FRONT, WHICH IS EXPECTED TO DROP SOUTHWARD INTO SOUTHERN KENTUCKY THIS EVENING, WILL PRODUCE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW OF WHICH COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE... WITH GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER REPORTS OF OBSERVED SEVERE WEATHER ARE ALWAYS APPRECIATED...AND SHOULD BE RELAYED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WHENEVER POSSIBLE. TNZ007>011-026>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-241030- ROBERTSON-SUMNER-MACON-CLAY-PICKETT-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- 142 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT MAXIMUM HEAT INDEX VALUES BETWEEN 100 AND 105 DEGREES WILL OCCUR IN MANY AREAS WEST OF THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU THIS AFTERNOON...AND ARE FORECAST TO EXCEED 105 DEGREES IN AREAS NORTHWEST OF NASHVILLE. HEAT INDICES IN THE NASHVILLE METRO AREA ARE FORECAST TO TOP OUT BETWEEN 102 AND 104 DEGREES. HOT WEATHER SAFETY WILL BE IMPORTANT THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A COLD FRONT, WHICH IS EXPECTED TO DROP SOUTHWARD INTO SOUTHERN KENTUCKY THIS EVENING, WILL PRODUCE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW OF WHICH COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE... WITH GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER REPORTS OF OBSERVED SEVERE WEATHER ARE ALWAYS APPRECIATED...AND SHOULD BE RELAYED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WHENEVER POSSIBLE. 19
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
933 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2016
TNZ010-011-033-034-240330-
OVERTON TN-PICKETT TN-FENTRESS TN-CLAY TN-
933 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CLAY...PICKETT...NORTHERN
FENTRESS AND NORTHERN OVERTON COUNTIES UNTIL 1030 PM CDT...
AT 933 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF TOMPKINSVILLE TO NEAR
ALBANY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
JAMESTOWN...CELINA...BYRDSTOWN...ASHLOCK...WOLF RIVER DOCK...
STATIC...STANDING STONE STATE PARK...MOSS...HUNTERSVILLE...
PALL MALL...DALE HOLLOW LAKE...BOLES AND PICKETT STATE PARK.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR
MIDDLE TENNESSEE.
LAT...LON 3642 8552 3662 8577 3663 8523 3661 8486
3653 8473 3640 8466
TIME...MOT...LOC 0233Z 310DEG 22KT 3675 8582 3673 8515
27The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 139 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:33 UTC.
7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A few trees were blown down in the Jamestown area.
Trees were damaged around Springbrook Place.
A few trees were blown down in Carthage.
Pictures from a tSpotter Twitter report showed trees down and large limbs broken on a farm south of Coopertown.
Minor flooding was reported on Old State Highway 53 in South Carthage.
A tree was blown down onto a house at 1105 38th Avenue North.
A house on Annette Drive was destroyed by a fire started by a lightning strike.
Several trees were downed across Davidson County.
Facebook photo showed a tree blown down across Toll Gate Road.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 633352, 633354, 633355, 633356, 643822, 633358, 633362, 633363, 633364.