Middle Tennessee Weather News
A Publication of the National Weather Service in Old Hickory
Serving Middle Tennessee Since 1870
Winter Edition, December 1, 2004, Volume III, Issue IV
Mark A. Rose, Editor
Winter Outlook and Climatology for Nashville
The seasonal outlook from the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center for the three-month period of December through February (the "meteorological winter") calls for below normal temepratures and below normal precipitation for Middle Tennessee. The following table gives both the normal and extreme values of various meteorological variables observed at Nashville.
| Dec | Jan | Feb
| Normal Temperature | Warmest Month | (1889) (1880) (1882) Coolest Month | (1989) (1977) (1978) Record High | (12/3/1982) (1/24/1972) (2/13/1962) Record Low | (12/22/1989) (1/21/1985) (2/2/1951) Normal Precipitation | Wettest Month | (1978) (1937) (1880) Driest Month | (1935) (1986) (1898) Normal Snowfall | Snowiest Month | (1963) (1948) (1979) |
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Red Boiling Springs flood of 1969 revisited
WSMV Channel 4's Nancy Van Camp will air a 30-minute weather special this Saturday, December 4, at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday at 11:00 p.m. It focuses on the Red Boiling Springs flood of 1969 and will have extensive information from our very own Mike Murphy and Mark A. Rose. It promises to be a fascinating story.
Winter Weather Awareness
Winter Awareness Week in Tennessee was held November 16 through November 18. However, it's never too late to review winter weather safety tips and winter weather definitions. There's also a neat wind chill index chart (based on the new wind chill formula) in this year's winter weather awareness package.
Beatty Swamps tornado of 1933
Following a 50-minute presentation by Mark A. Rose on the History of Weather in Middle Tennessee to the Jackson County Historical Society on the evening of November 8, which contained information on the Beatty Swamps tornado of 1933, Overton County Historian Ronald Dishman, who was present at the talk, offered to share some long sought after photographs of the aftermath of this storm. They have been posted on our website here.
If your group would like to see this presentation, or any other weather-related presentation, please contact Mark A. Rose. Our talks come at no charge to you.
Recognition to Clarksville for 150 years of weather observations
The National Weather Service honored the city of Clarksville, Tennessee on October 7 for taking weather observations since 1854. An afternoon ceremony was held at the city's Waste Water Treatment Plant, where employees currently log weather observations every night at midnight. Many of the employees were on hand to receive the plant's plaque and to learn some of the ways their information is used. Clarksville's Leaf-Chronicle covered the presentation. Later that evening, the NWS presented a plaque to the Mayor of Clarksville during the City Council meeting at City Council Chambers in downtown Clarksville.
Photograph of the Quarter
Dwight Moore (W5MDM), from Maury County, provided the following collection of photographs of the Duck River taken during the afternoon of December 2. The Duck River at Columbia crested mere inches below flood stage during the early morning of December 2, following heavy rainfall on November 30.
Boat ramp under water on Iron Bridge Road
View from Riverside Drive
Now off of Riverside Drive
Taken from Sowell Mill Pike
Taken off of Sowell Mill Pike
Hydrograph of the Duck River at Columbia showing the near-flood crest.
If you have a unique weather photograph you would like to share, please either e-mail it to the editor, or send it to: National Weather Service, 500 Weather Station Rd., Old Hickory, TN 37138, Attn: Mark A. Rose. If you mail your photograph(s), I will scan them and mail them right back.