Thunderstorm Wind, Shelby
- When
- July 21, 4:50 PM CST to 4:55 PM CST
- Where
- Shelby County, Bartlett
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 35.200, -89.883
Numerous trees were blown down.
Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 21, 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
- $10,000
- 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 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 Jul 21, 2:30 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 2:30 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 330 PM CDT SAT JUL 21 2001 UPDATE...WILL ISSUE HEAT ADVISORY FOR SUNDAY FOR ERN AR...NW MS... AND SHELBY COUNTY IN TN. AFTERNOON DEWPOINTS NOT DROPPING OFF AS EARLIER ANTICIPATED...AND EXPECT SIMILAR CONDITIONS TOMORROW. ADVISORY WILL LIKELY END UP BEING EXTENDED INTO MONDAY...BUT WILL START WITH TOMORROW FOR NOW. OUR CWA HAS HAD MORE RAIN THAN LIT CWA LAST FEW DAYS. WHILE THIS HOLDS OUR DRYBULB TEMPS DOWN...HOLDING OUR DEWPOINTS UP. ------------------------------------------------------------------- PREVIOUS DISCUSSION PERSISTANCE SEEMS TO PRETTY WELL DESCRIBE THE FORECAST TREND FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. NO STRONG IMPULSES MOVING THROUGH...AND NO CHANGE TO THE AIRMASS. CURRENTLY...SOME ISOLATED CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY...MAINLY OVER NRN MS... ALTHOUGH A COUPLE OF CELLS NEAR OVER SC MO. ONLY ORGANIZED COMPLEX IS CURRENTLY OVER NRN IA...AND THIS SHOULD STAY WELL NORTHEAST OF AREA. EVENING POPS TONIGHT WILL BE BASED ON LATEST RADAR TRENDS AT PRESS TIME. STILL ON FENCE ABOUT WHETHER TO CARRY POPS FOR TOMORROW...WILL LOOK AT 18Z MESO-ETA...BUT TENDING TOWARD KEEPING FORECAST DRY. WILL STILL BE SITTING ON THE BORDERLINE WITH RESPECT TO HEAT ADVISORY...STAYING JUST UNDER CRITERIA IN ABOUT HALF OF AREA. TEMPERATURE/DEWPOINT GUIDANCE CLOSE AND ACCEPTED. EXTENDED...RIDGE APPEARS TO RELAX A LITTLE TOWARD MIDWEEK. CURRENT EXTENDED CARRYING CHANCE FOR AFTERNOON/EVENING CONVECTION FROM WEDNESDAY ONWARD...AND SEE LITTLE REASON TO CHANGE THAT. 10 EXPECTED NUMBERS MEM BB 078/095 078/095 078 321 MKL BB 071/093 073/093 073 121 JBR BB 077/095 075/095 075 221 TUP BB 074/093 074/093 075 121 .MEG...HEAT ADVISORY FOR SUNDAY FOR ERN AR...NW MS...AND SHELBY COUNTY TN. ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058...TNZ088... MSZ001-002-007-008-010>013-020>022.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Heat in Illinois, July 21 to 24, 2001
- Heat in Missouri, July 21 to 24, 2001
- Heat in Wisconsin, July 21 to 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Michigan, July 21, 2001
- Flash Flood and Flood in Illinois, July 21, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Montana, July 21 to 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 21, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 21, 2001
- Flood in Alaska, July 21 to 23, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 21, 2001
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, July 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: 5259922.