Flood, Greene
- When
- August 9, 7:10 PM EST
- Where
- Greene County, 10 mi SW of Greeneville
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.175, -82.846 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood in Tennessee, August 9, 2001
Several roads closed along and near Highway 321 in the St. James community due to culvert and small stream overflow.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 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 happened
The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.
Several roads closed along and near Highway 321 in the St. James community due to culvert and small stream overflow.
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 Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 9, 6:48 PM EST, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 6:48 PM EST, 22 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 748 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2001 LATE AFTERNOON CONVECTION HAS MOVED RATHER QUICKLY NE UP THE VALLEY ...LEAVING SE TN AND SW NC HIGH AND DRY FOR THE MOMENT. ALMOST APPEARS THAT MODELS MAY HAVE MISSED A WEAK SHORTWAVE/VORT MAX. SOME BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS UNFORTUNATELY PASSED THRU OUR NE TN COUNTIES...MAINLY SEVIER...GREENE...COCKE AND UNICOI. THIS ACTIVITY WAS TRACKING INTO CARTER COUNTY AT THIS TIME. AT ANY RATE...LOOKING UPSTREAM THERE IS ALMOST NO PCPN OVER MIDDLE TN AND/OR NRN AL. SO...I WILL LIKELY UPDATE ZONE FORECASTS SHORTLY AND LOWER RAIN CHANCES FOR ESPECIALLY SRN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA. UPDATED ZONES TO FOLLOW BY AROUND 830 PM EDT. THANKS TO JKL AND FCX FOR COORDINATION CALLS CONCERNING THESE STORMS. .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. TG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 2:25 PM EST, 4 hours 45 minutes before
NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-005- 006-008-100800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 325 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2001 ...TORRENTIAL RAINFALL POSSIBLE WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT AND FRIDAY ACROSS EAST TENNESSEE...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA... A MODERATELY UNSTABLE AND VERY MOIST AIRMASS WAS IN PLACE ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY TODAY. THIS NEARLY TROPICAL AIRMASS WILL HELP TO TRIGGER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT...AS UPPER-LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVE ACROSS THE REGION. A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE OHIO VALLEY BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON...WHICH WILL HELP TO TRIGGER ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION. A FEW OF THE STORMS THAT DEVELOP TONIGHT AND FRIDAY...WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE ISOLATED REPORTS OF FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY ACROSS LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS. RESIDENTS OF EAST TENNESSEE...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...FOR LATER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. DMG
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, August 9, 2001
- Heat in Missouri, August 9, 2001
- Heat in Texas, August 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, August 9, 2001
- Flood and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, August 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, August 9, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Ohio, August 9, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Michigan, August 9, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New York, August 9, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 9, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Dakota, August 9, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Vermont, August 9, 2001
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, August 2001
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: 5268180.