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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
121 PM CST MON JAN 4 2016

...2015 WAS ABOVE NORMAL IN TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL AT NASHVILLE...

BASED ON WEATHER RECORDS SINCE 1870 NASHVILLE HAD ITS 14TH WARMEST
YEAR ON RECORD IN 2015. THE TEMPERATURE AVERAGED 61.2 DEGREES
WHICH IS 2.8 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THE WARMEST YEAR WAS BACK IN
1921 WHEN THE TEMPERATURE AVERAGED 62.5 DEGREES.

FIVE WARMEST YEARS ON RECORD IN NASHVILLE...
1921...62.5 WARMEST YEAR EVER
2012...62.3
2007...62.3
1990...62.1
1874...62.0

LOOKING AT THE RECORD BOOK IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT 4 OF THE
TOP 14 WARMEST YEARS HAVE COME IN THE 21ST CENTURY.

THE HOTTEST TEMPERATURE DURING 2015 WAS 97 DEGREES ON AUGUST 4TH
AND THE COLDEST WAS 4 DEGREES ON JANUARY 8TH. NASHVILLE HAS NOT
BEEN BELOW ZERO SINCE FEBRUARY 5TH 1996 WHEN THE TEMPERATURE FELL
TO -3 DEGREES.

RAINFALL TOTALED 50.80 INCHES AT NASHVILLE WHICH IS 3.55 INCHES
ABOVE NORMAL.

SNOWFALL FOR NASHVILLE IN THE CALENDAR YEAR 2015 TOTALED 5.9 INCHES
WHICH WAS JUST BELOW NORMAL. THE 30 YEAR NORMAL IS 6.3 INCHES.

OTHER 2015 HIGHLIGHTS IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

...WORST ICE STORM IN RECORDED HISTORY HIT THE PLATEAU IN
FEBRUARY 2015...

IN 2015 THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU WAS HIT BY THE WORST ICE STORM IN
RECORDED HISTORY ON FEBRUARY 20TH AND 21ST. THOUSANDS OF TREES AND
POWER LINES WERE KNOCKED DOWN...AND NUMEROUS HOMES AND BUSINESSES
DAMAGED BY FALLEN TREES...MORE THAN 700 POWER POLES SNAPPED.
NEARLY ALL ROADWAYS INCLUDING INTERSTATE 40 WERE BLOCKED AND
CLOSED. OVER THIRTY FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE WERE WITHOUT POWER FOR UP
TO ONE MONTH. DAMAGE WAS ESTIMATED OVER TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS. THE
DAMAGE WAS COMPARABLE TO AN EF-1 TORNADO.

...2015 HAD THE FEWEST TORNADOES IN TENNESSEE SINCE 2007...

ONLY THREE TENNESSEE TORNADOES OCCURRED DURING THE PEAK SEASON OF
MARCH...APRIL AND MAY. HOWEVER 9 TWISTERS OCCURRING IN JULY...ONE
OF THE LEAST LIKELY MONTHS FOR TORNADOES...WITH 7 TORNADOES
OCCURRING IN DECEMBER...THE MOST UNLIKELY MONTH FOR TORNADOES.
TENNESSEE TORNADOES TOTALED 19 IN 2015 WHICH IS THE FEWEST
TWISTERS TO HIT THE STATE SINCE 2007. THERE WERE 2 FATALITIES IN
2015. ON AVERAGE 19 TORNADOES WILL STRIKE TENNESSEE ANNUALLY...WITH
5 FATALITIES.

...CROSSVILLE HAD ITS 5TH WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD AND THE 8TH
WETTEST IN 2015...

2015 WAS THE 5TH WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD IN CROSSVILLE WITH AN
AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 57.8 DEGREES WHICH IS 1.8 ABOVE NORMAL. THE
WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD WAS 1954.

RAINFALL TOTALED 67.43 INCHES WHICH IS 12.34 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL
MAKING 2015 THE 8TH WETTEST YEAR ON RECORD IN CROSSVILLE. THE
WETTEST YEAR WAS 1973 WHEN 74.36 INCHES OF RAIN FELL.


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