| Super Tuesday tornados, Tennessee weather event of 2008 |
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By: TMP Reports
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Posted: Saturday, January 3, 2009 8:55 am
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Middle Tennessee weather was fairly average with few exceptions, according to the National Weather Service.
2008 in Nashville was near normal in both temperature and rainfall, NWS’s Bobby Boyd said.
The average temperature for 2008 was 59.4 degrees, which is 0.5 degrees above normal. The coldest temperature was 9 degrees on Dec. 22. This was the first single digit reading at the Nashville Airport since January 2003. The hottest temperature was 97 degrees on July 21 and again Aug. 5.
Rainfall for 2008 totaled 48.17 inches, which is 0.06 inch above normal.
Snowfall for 2008 totaled 2.2 inches with 1.2 inches falling in February with another inch falling in December.
The weather event of the year for the Nashville area was the Super Tuesday tornado outbreak of Feb. 5 and 6.
Twenty-three fatalities occurred during the outbreak northeast of Nashville with 13 in Macon County, 8 in Sumner County and two in Trousdale County. Thirteen tornadoes in all touched down in Williamson, Wayne, Benton, Stewart and Dickson counties causing millions of dollars in damage.
It was the worst tornado outbreak across the midstate since 1974 and the single deadliest tornado since 1933.
Nashville was spared tornado damage during the Super Tuesday outbreak as the super cell approached the town from the southwest the tornado lifted and did not touch down again until reaching Sumner County.
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