High Wind, Southeast Greene
- When
- January 29, 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Southeast Greene forecast zone
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 36.175, -82.846 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Tennessee, January 29, 2001
A strong upper level storm system moved east through the southern Appalachians, creating strong pressure gradient winds from the south. These winds were responsible for ripping a roof off a mobile home in the Cedar Creek community, about 10 miles southwest of Greeneville.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $2,000
- 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.
A strong upper level storm system moved east through the southern Appalachians, creating strong pressure gradient winds from the south. These winds were responsible for ripping a roof off a mobile home in the Cedar Creek community, about 10 miles southwest of Greeneville. The wind took part of the roof and carried it to a field some distance away.
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 Jan 29, 3:00 PM EST, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 29, 3:00 PM EST, 3 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 3 PM EST MON JAN 29 2001 TONIGHT...FAST MOVING FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS MOST OF TENNESSEE. FRONT WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF MY CWA AROUND 12Z. HIGH AMOUNTS OF MOISTURE BEING PULLED NORTH BY STRONG WIND FLOW AHEAD OF SYSTEM. CAPE VALUES AROUND 200-300 OVERNIGHT ALONG WITH LI VALUES AROUND 0 SO WILL MENTION THUNDER ALL AREAS. WILL POST A WIND ADVISORY FOR THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAINS WITH 25 TO 35 MPH EXPECTED WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 55 MPH. STRONG DYNAMICS AND DEEP MOISTURE WILL RESULT IN SOME POCKETS OF HEAVY RAIN IN THE PRECIP SHIELD...SO MENTIONED HEAVY RAIN ALL AREAS EXCEPT NORTHEAST TN/SOUTHWEST VA WHERE SOUTHEAST WINDS OVER THE MTNS WILL CAUSE A RAIN SHADOW EFFECT IN THIS AREA. ONE HOUR FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE VALUES BETWEEN 1.5 AND 2 INCHES. FAST MOVEMENT OF SYSTEM WILL KEEP TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS BELOW THESE VALUES. TUESDAY...RAIN WILL CUT OFF AS SOON AS FRONT PASSES. WILL PUT IN 20 PERCENT CHANCE FOR ALL AREAS EXCEPT NORTHEAST TN AND NORTHEAST TN MTNS WHERE I WILL PUT 40 PERCENT THROUGH MIDDAY. SKIES WILL START OUT CLOUDY BUT AM EXPECTING SOME BREAKS IN THE AFTERNOON. TUESDAY NIGHT...SURFACE TROF IN WRAPAROUND FLOW WILL PASS THROUGH THE AREA. WILL PUT IN 20 PERCENT POPS FOR NORTHEAST TN/SOUTHWEST VA WHERE MOISTURE SUPPLY IS BEST. KEPT REMAINDER OF FORECAST AREA DRY. WEDNESDAY...SURFACE PRESSURES INCREASE ACROSS THE REGION...WITH FLOW WEST TO SOUTHWEST FROM THE GROUND UP. LOOKS LIKE WRAPAROUND MOSTLY CLOUDY CONDITIONS WILL STAY TO THE NORTH SO BROAD-BRUSHED AREA WITH PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES. CHA 45 58 38 56 / 100 20 0 0 TYS 45 57 37 55 / 100 20 20 0 TRI 43 55 35 53 / 80 40 20 0 OQT 45 57 37 55 / 100 20 20 0 .MRX... NC...WIND ADVISORY FOR MONDAY NIGHT FOR ZONES NCZ060>061. TN...WIND ADVISORY FOR MONDAY NIGHT FOR ZONES TNZ018...TNZ041... TNZ043...TNZ045...TNZ047...TNZ072...TNZ074...TNZ087...TNZ102. VA...NONE. AUSTIN
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Avalanche in Washington, January 29, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, January 29, 2001
- Ice Storm in Iowa, January 29, 2001
- Blizzard in South Dakota, January 29 to 30, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Texas, January 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, January 29, 2001
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, January 29 to 30, 2001
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, January 29 to 30, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, January 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, January 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, January 29, 2001
- Winter Storm and High Wind in Nebraska, January 29 to 30, 2001
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, January 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: 5229515.