Thunderstorm Wind, Claiborne
- When
- August 9, 11:50 PM EST
- Where
- Claiborne County, Harrogate
- Crop damage
- $11,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 36.583, -83.650
Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 9, 2000
Trees down along highway 63.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- $11,000
- 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.
Trees down along highway 63.
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 51 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:47 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Ohio, August 9, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, August 9 to 10, 2000
- Heat in Texas, August 9, 2000
- Heat in Texas, August 9, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, August 9, 2000
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in West Virginia, August 9 to 10, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in West Virginia, August 9, 2000
- Tornadoes and Hail in Virginia, August 9, 2000
- Flash Flooding and Hail in New York, August 9, 2000
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Ohio, August 9, 2000
- Damaging Winds and High Wind in Ohio, August 9, 2000
- Tornado in Maine, August 9, 2000
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, August 2000
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: 5155824.