Hail and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 9, 2001

Name: Hail and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 9, 2001
Start: 2001-08-09T19:25
End: 2001-08-09T19:30
Location: Tennessee

August 9, 2001 · NWS MEG · 2 events in 1 county or zone

1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $10,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 9, 1:50 PM CST, 5 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 1:50 PM CST, 5 hours 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
250 PM CDT THU AUG 9 2001

SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS LINGERED IN NE MS. EXPECT THIS
ACTIVITY WEAKEN AND MOVE EWD. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN
SE MO...AR AND SW TN FROM AFTERNOON HEATING. ETA INDICATES UPPER
DIVERGENCE AND 850MB THETA-E ADVECTION OVER THE FCST AREA TNT...SO
EXPECT THE TSTMS UPSTREAM TO POSSIBLY TURN INTO AN MCS THIS EVENING
AND MOVE THROUGH THE CWA LATE TNT AND FRI MORNING.

A COLD FRONT IN THE MIDWEST WILL STALL JUST N OF THE CWA LATE FRI.
OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM TSTMS NEAR THE FRONT WILL KEEP CHANCES OF
TSTMS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. WILL BRING THE COLD FRONT INTO THE NRN
COUNTIES EARLY NEXT WEEK BUT NOT MUCH PROGRESS BEYOND THAT. WILL
HAVE TO KEEP TSTM CHANCES THROUGH THE ENTIRE FCST PD.

PRELIM VALUES...
MEM TB 76/88/76/90 5534
MKL TB 73/87/72/90 5534
JBR TB 76/89/75/90 5534
TUP TB 74/86/74/90 5534

.MEG...NONE.

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The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 77 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:23 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Obion

When: August 9, 7:25 PM CST to 7:30 PM CST
Where: Obion County, Union City
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Property damage: $10
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 36.417, -89.050

Thunderstorm Wind, Obion

When: August 9, 7:25 PM CST to 7:30 PM CST
Where: Obion County, Union City
Property damage: $10,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 36.417, -89.050

Three utility poles and several tree limbs were knocked down.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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

Every storm in Tennessee in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5267424, 5267425.