Hail, Scott
- When
- March 5, 9:30 AM EST
- Where
- Scott County, Nw Part of County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Crop damage
- $6,000
- Coordinates
- 36.520, -84.650
Hail in Tennessee, March 5, 1997
Three-quarter inch sized hail reported in northwest part of county. Trees down in Fiarview community.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- $6,000
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.
Three-quarter inch sized hail reported in northwest part of county. Trees down in Fiarview community. Some windows blown out at WBNT radio station.
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 118 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:32 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, March 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, March 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, March 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, March 5, 1997
More
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Sources
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: 5596899.