Tennessee, 2001

Hail in Tennessee, August 23, 2001

August 23, 2001 · NWS MEG · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
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  • Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
$10
Crop damage
None recorded
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 forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 23, 1:42 PM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 1:42 PM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
242 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2001

ANOTHER HOT STEAMY DAY ACROSS THE FA TODAY BUT CU DEVELOPMENT HAS
KEPT TEMPS AT OR JUST BELOW YESTERDAYS LEVELS. WEAK FRONTAL
BNDRY OVER THE OH VALLEY WILL SAG SLOWLY SWD TONIGHT AND INTO NRN TN
BY FRI MORNING. S/WV ENERGY MOVING EWD OUT OF CENTRAL PLAINS WILL
HELP TO FLATTEN UPPER RIDGE OVER FA AND INTERACT WITH SFC BNDRY TO
BRING A CHANCE OF TSRA TO MAINLY NERN THIRD OF FA TONIGHT AND
FRIDAY. THREAT OF NEEDED RAIN OVER SWRN TWO THIRDS OF FA DOES NOT
LOOK THAT GREAT AND WILL NOT INCLUDE POPS FOR NOW. HOWEVER...WOULD
NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE SOME ISOLATED ACTIVITY ACROSS REMAINDER OF
AREA ON FRIDAY DEPENDING ON LOCATION OF MESOSCALE FEATURES. BNDRY
SHOULD LIFT BACK NEWD OUT OF NRN ZNS FRI NIGHT WITH A DRY DAY...
OUTSIDE OF AN ISOLATED TSRA...FA WIDE ON SATURDAY. BY SATURDAY
NIGHT...NEXT S/WV MOVING EWD OUT OF PLAINS WITH ASSOCD FRONT WILL
BEGIN TO APPROACH WRN SXNS OF FA. FRONT SHOULD PASS THROUGH FA EARLY
SUNDAY WITH AT LEAST A CHANCE FOR SHRAS/TSRAS.  HOWEVER...GIVEN
EXPECTED TIMING OF FRONT OVERALL RAIN THREAT APPEARS TO BE IN THE
LO CHC RANGE AT THIS TIME.

AS FAR AS TEMPS...UPPER HEIGHTS SHOULD BE A BIT LOWER ON FRIDAY...
THAT COMBINED WITH SCT-BKN HI CLOUDS AND CU SHOULD KEEP TEMPS DOWN A
COUPLE DEGREES OVER PAST COUPLE OF DAYS. WILL PROBABLY STILL HILITE
HEAT INDICES FOR ONE MORE AFTERNOON FOR VALUES IN THE 100 TO 105
RANGE. WILL CONTINUE ALONG GUIDANCE TREND INTO SATURDAY OF MAXES
A DEGREE OR TWO LOWER FROM PREVIOUS DAY. AFTER FRONT PASSES...DRY AND
SEASONABLE WEATHER CAN BE EXPECTED FOR MUCH OF NEXT WEEK.

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...
MEM 77/94/76/93 1111
MKL 74/93/73/92 2411
JBR 73/95/73/93 1111
TUP 73/94/73/92 -111

.MEG...NONE.

MZ

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 82 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:02 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Hardeman

When
August 23, 4:05 PM CST to 4:10 PM CST
Where
Hardeman County, Toone
Measured
0.75 in hail
Property damage
$10
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
35.350, -88.967

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.

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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: 5265887.