Thunderstorm Wind, McMinn
- When
- February 16, 5:25 PM EST
- Where
- McMinn County, Athens
- Crop damage
- $19,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.450, -84.600
Trees down.
Damaging Wind in Tennessee, February 16, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
- $19,000
- 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 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 Feb 16, 3:00 PM EST, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 3:00 PM EST, 2 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 300 PM EST FRI FEB 16 2001 A WET EVENING AND NIGHT IN STORE...THEN COLDER. SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING IN THE SOUTH. MODELS IN DECENT AGREEMENT THIS RUN. GOOD FORCING THIS EVENING AND EARLY TONIGHT AS STRONG DIVERGENCE ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH THE JET COMBINES WITH GOOD LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FRONT. PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES ARE IN THE 1 TO 1.5 INCH RANGE...SO PLENTY OF MOISTURE AVAILABLE. GROUND IS ALREADY QUITE WET FROM PAST RAINS...SINCE MOST LOCATIONS HAVE RECEIVED BETWEEN 1.5 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN PAST FEW DAYS. APPEARS ONLY LIMITING FACTOR FOR FLOODING PROBLEMS MAY BE SPEED OF THE SYSTEM. HOWEVER...APPEARS POTENTIAL IS THERE FOR AT LEAST SOME WATER PROBLEMS...SO WILL ISSUE A FFA FOR ALL ZONES FOR TONIGHT. LOOKS LIKE THE PRECIP WILL END BEFORE IT GETS COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW... ALTHOUGH THIS WILL HAVE TO BE WATCHED CLOSELY TONIGHT. CLOUDS SHOULD GRADUALLY BREAK UP SATURDAY...THEN MOSTLY CLEAR SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. WILL GENERALLY USE A BLEND OF GUIDANCE FOR TEMPS. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS FOLLOW: CHA 39 45 23 46 / 100 5 0 5 TYS 36 40 20 43 / 100 5 0 5 TRI 36 38 16 39 / 100 5 0 5 OQT 36 40 20 43 / 100 5 0 5 .MRX... NC...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 4 AM TONIGHT FOR ZONES NCZ060>061. TN...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 4 AM TONIGHT FOR ZONES TNZ012>018...TNZ035>047...TNZ067>074...TNZ081>087...TNZ098>102. VA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 4 AM TONIGHT FOR ZONES VAZ001>002...VAZ005>006...VAZ008. LDW
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 2:00 PM EST, 3 hours 25 minutes before
NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-005- 006-008-170100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 200 PM EST FRI FEB 16 2001 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT ACROSS SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE UNTIL 8 PM EST (7 PM CST)... ...HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 23 IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING UNTIL 8 PM EST (7 PM CST). THE MAIN THREATS FROM ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE THE POSSIBILITY OF STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS... WHICH COULD PRODUCE SOME AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING...WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. ADDITIONAL WIDESPREAD RAINFALL RESULTING IN RAINFALL TOTALS AROUND AN INCH...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS UP TO TWO AND A HALF INCHES... WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION...MAINLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY NEARLY SATURATED AND WITH SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS FLOWING NEAR BANKFULL...LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WILL BE A DISTINCT POSSIBILITY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE LOCAL RADIO...TELEVISION...OR CABLE TELEVISION STATION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. DMG
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 4:40 PM EST, 45 minutes before
NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-005- 006-008-170300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 440 PM EST FRI FEB 16 2001 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE UNTIL 8 PM EST (7 PM CST)... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CLAY AND CHEROKEE COUNTIES OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 10 PM EST (9 PM CST)... ...HEAVY RAINFALL ALSO POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION... TORNADO WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA FOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO A PORTION OF THIS EVENING. THE MAIN THREATS FROM ANY SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE THE POSSIBILITY OF STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS...WHICH COULD PRODUCE SOME AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING...WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. ADDITIONAL WIDESPREAD RAINFALL RESULTING IN RAINFALL TOTALS AROUND AN INCH...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS UP TO TWO AND A HALF INCHES... WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION...MAINLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY NEARLY SATURATED AND WITH SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS FLOWING NEAR BANKFULL...LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WILL BE A DISTINCT POSSIBILITY THIS EVENING. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE LOCAL RADIO...TELEVISION...OR CABLE TELEVISION STATION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. DM
Local storm report, Feb 16, 4:55 PM EST, 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN, TN
455 PM EST FRI FEB 16 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....m
0433 PM SIGNAL MOUNTAIN TN WIND DAMAGE
02/16/01 HAMILTON LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
TREES DOWN
DAELocal storm report, Feb 16, 5:00 PM EST, 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN, TN
500 PM EST FRI FEB 16 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0433 PM SIGNAL MOUNTAIN TN WIND DAMAGE
02/16/01 HAMILTON LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
TREES DOWN
0433 PM RED BANK TN WIND DAMAGE
02/16/01 HAMILTON LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
TREES DOWN
DAEThe radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 134 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:25 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, February 16, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, February 16, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, February 16, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, February 16, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, February 16, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Alabama, February 16, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, February 16, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, February 16, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, February 16, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, February 16, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, February 16, 2001
- Tornado in Georgia, February 16, 2001
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: 5230161.