An early morning thunderstorm in the Bedford County area caused minor tree damage on August 2, 2024.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
An early morning thunderstorm in the Bedford County area caused minor tree damage on August 2, 2024.
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 2, 4:26 AM CST, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Nashville TN 526 AM CDT Fri Aug 2 2024 ...New AVIATION... .SHORT TERM... (Today through Saturday) Issued at 159 CDT Fri Aug 2 2024 As top of the hour arrives, isolated to scattered convection noted to west, north, and east of mid state region. Look for an slow upper level trough passage as today progresses with upper level troughing influences hanging around eastern portions of mid state region through Saturday afternoon. A surface front will also slowly sag into our area from our northwest as today progresses finally pushing east of mid state region eastward and into the deep south shortly after sunrise on Saturday. PWAT values continue to be high across our area this morning and that will at least continue through afternoon hours today. Shower and storm chances will increase across our area as day progresses with best chances of showers and thunderstorms across eastern portions, especially Upper Cumberland Region as afternoon hours progress today. Highs should top out in low to mid 90s west of Cumberland Plateau Region, mid 80s to around 90 for locations just west of and across Cumberland Plateau Region. Lows tonight will reflect passage of this surface summertime cold front with lows around seasonal normal values. Highs on Saturday will also hover around seasonal normal values. Some strong thunderstorms will be possible, especially across locations approaching Cumberland Plateau Region where ample CAPE will prevail, highest PWAT values, but little in the way of atmospheric shear. Look for a potential "Break in the Action" late tonight as diurnal influences wane during evening hours but convection will initiate once again as diurnal influences come into play on Saturday. && .LONG TERM... (Saturday Night through next Thursday) Issued at 159 AM CDT Fri Aug 2 2024 Latest consensus model blend leaning toward keeping most of mid state region dry through next Thursday afternoon. Exception to this might be some isolated showers/thunderstorms finally developing Cumberland Plateau Region as Thursday afternoon progresses. This due to several factors. The "kicking in" of diurnal heating influences and orographic lifting influences. Another one will be the possibility of a surface front dropping down from our north into our area. A further one could be quasi zonal flow aloft developing as Thursday progresses. Otherwise, this "dry spell" will be brought to us as our area will be on the eastern fridges of broad upper level ridging influences stretching westward across much of CONUS. Global Models are now showing a tropical system developing just off the western FL peninsula as Sun progresses, now taking a "B Line" up the Atlantic Seaboard as next work week progresses. Last night around this time GFS retrograded this tropical system westward across Gulf Coastal areas with ECMWF did the "B Line Express." Will have to see how future model runs handle this scenario and if there will be any even remotely associated impacts to mid state region. Not much cloudiness will prevail through this period, but the brief reprieve from unseasonably warm temperatures looks to end. Lows Saturday night will be around seasonal normal values mainly upper 60s to lower 70s, mid 60s Cumberland Plateau Region. Sunday will start off the warmup with highs once again mainly low to mid 90s for locations west of Cumberland Plateau Region, upper 80s to around 90 for locations just west of and across Cumberland Plateau Region. However, by Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons highs will be in mid to upper 90s for locations west of Cumberland Plateau Region, upper 80s to lower 90s across it. That also means that afternoon heat index values will begin to "creep up" once again to thresholds in some locations west of Cumberland Plateau Region to around 105 degrees. As surface front moves down into mid state region on Thursday, high temperatures might lower by a few degrees. Lows from Sunday night onward will trend a few degrees above seasonal normal values. && .AVIATION... (12Z TAFS) Issued at 523 AM CDT Fri Aug 2 2024 A surface front will move through the terminals today. Ahead of the front showers and storms may impact the terminals. A weakening line is approaching CKV and could impact the terminal through 13z. SRB/CSV have the highest probability of being impacted this afternoon and a prevailing group was included. Once the surface front moves through the terminals, winds will shift from the SW to the WSW. Fog will likely impact SRB/CSV late tonight due to the low level moisture and light winds. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Nashville 94 72 91 72 / 50 20 40 0 Clarksville 90 70 90 70 / 30 20 20 0 Crossville 86 65 82 64 / 80 50 70 0 Columbia 94 70 91 69 / 40 20 20 0 Cookeville 86 67 83 67 / 70 40 60 0 Jamestown 86 65 82 65 / 80 50 70 0 Lawrenceburg 92 70 89 69 / 50 20 20 0 Murfreesboro 94 70 91 70 / 60 20 40 0 Waverly 92 70 91 69 / 20 20 0 0 && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && SHORT TERM...JB Wright LONG TERM....JB Wright AVIATION.....Reagan
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 59 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:44 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong thunderstorm winds snapped tree tops in the Flat Creek area. Damages are a rough estimate.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2024Every state in 2024This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, August 2024
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: 1189568.