Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed across Middle Tennessee during the afternoon hours on July 2. A few reports of wind damage and flash flooding were received.
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The episode as NWS OHX wrote it up.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed across Middle Tennessee during the afternoon hours on July 2. A few reports of wind damage and flash 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 Jul 2, 1:25 PM CST, 45 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Nashville TN 225 PM CDT Sun Jul 2 2017 .DISCUSSION... Surface map at 19Z shows a weak ridge of high pressure to our east, with a moist & moderately unstable air mass in place across Middle Tennessee. A weak shortwave is pushing across the mid state this afternoon and helping to produce the scattered storms we're seeing on radar. Thus far, the cells are not as strong as what we saw yesterday, and the SPC has us under general thunderstorms only. Surface and upper air pattern over the next few days gives us no reason to expect any appreciable air mass change, so we can expect temperatures to remain close to normal with isolated to scattered convection mainly during peak-heating hours. Both the GFS & ECMWF bring a cold front through Middle Tennessee Thursday afternoon and evening, so look for increased POP's during this period, with drier and only slightly cooler air advecting in for next weekend. && .AVIATION... 18Z TAF DISCUSSION. Scattered showers and storms...mainly through early evening... again expected as airmass remains moist and unstable. Storms have greatest chance of affecting TAF sites through 22z. All sites also expected to see some fog development later tonight ...especially after 06z. Lower VIS will however raise rapidly after 14z. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Nashville 69 89 71 88 72 / 20 20 20 40 30 Clarksville 69 88 70 86 71 / 20 20 30 40 40 Crossville 65 82 66 84 66 / 30 30 20 40 30 Columbia 68 87 69 86 70 / 20 20 30 50 30 Lawrenceburg 68 87 69 87 70 / 30 20 30 50 30 Waverly 68 88 70 86 72 / 20 20 30 50 30 && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && DISCUSSION......08 AVIATION........07
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Nashville TN 859 AM CDT Sun Jul 2 2017 TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-031030- 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- 859 AM CDT Sun Jul 2 2017 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of Middle Tennessee. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Scattered thunderstorms are again expected today. Isolated storms could become strong to severe...producing strong to damaging wind gusts. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed.
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 8 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:07 UTC.
3 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tspotter Twitter reports and photos showed several streets were flooded in Old Hickory and Lakewood with water up to the bumpers of some cars. A house also suffered minor flooding in Neely's Bend.
A tSpotter Twitter video showed high water covering Charlotte Pike at American Road which commonly floods in heavy rainfall.
Several tSpotter Twitter reports and photos showed several large trees blowm down in the Riverwalk area. Several reports also indicated pea size hail.
A tSpotter Twitter video showed flooding along Sams Creek Road with Sams Creek out of its banks.
Tspotter Twitter reports indicated that some roads were flooded in the Defeated Community with one road and several driveways washed out.
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: 702610, 702612, 702613, 702616, 702617.