Thunderstorm Wind, Moore
- When
- July 3, 1:30 PM CST
- Where
- Moore County, 1 mi E of Lynchburg
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.283, -86.367
Sheriff's office reported one tree down.
Flash Flood and Hail in Tennessee, July 3, 2001
3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- None recorded
- Events
- 5
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 Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 3, 12:57 PM CST, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 12:57 PM CST, 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 157 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2001 CURRENTLY, CONVECTION IS FIRING ALONG AND SOUTH OF A BOUNDARY BISECTING THE MID STATE FROM EAST TO WEST. ALTHOUGH MOST UNSTABLE AIR REMAINS NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY, LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE APPEARS TO BE THE PRIMARY FORCING MECHANISM, WITH WNW WINDS NORTH AND SSW WINDS SOUTH. FORECAST APPEARS TO BE MUCH OF THE SAME DUE TO LITTLE CHANGE IN AIR MASS CHARACTERISTICS THE NEXT TWO DAYS. POPS WILL BE A LITTLE HIGHER TOMORROW AS SURFACE BOUNDARY DEVELOPS TO OUR NORTH, AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE COMES UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A MID-LEVEL NORTHWEST FLOW REGIME AS 500 MB SHORTWAVE STALLS TO OUR EAST. SOME DRYING IN THE MID-LEVELS ON THURSDAY WILL REDUCE CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION. MODELS SUGGEST SLOW-MOVING FRONT WILL PASS THROUGH THE MID STATE THURSDAY EVENING, GIVING WAY TO LESS HUMID WEATHER ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. NGM/AVN MOS TEMPERATURES ARE VERY CLOSE THE NEXT TWO DAYS, WITH VALUES CONSISTENT WITH OBSERVED TEMPERATURES THE LAST SEVERAL PERIODS, SO WILL STAY WITHIN THAT RANGE. WILL CONTINUE WITH MAINLY SCATTERED POPS UNTIL FRONTAL PASSAGE THURSDAY EVENING. BNA 73/90/7=2/87/65 25232 LAWRENCEBURG 72/91/71/89/67 24234 CSV 67/84/66/82/61 35343 .BNA...NONE. 08
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 47 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:28 UTC.
Event by event
3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Moore
- When
- July 3, 1:35 PM CST
- Where
- Moore County, Lynchburg
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.283, -86.383
Law enforcement reported several trees down south of Lynchburg.
Thunderstorm Wind, Macon
- When
- July 3, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Macon County, Countywide
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.517, -86.000
Law enforcement reported trees down around the county.
Hail, Cumberland
- When
- July 3, 6:54 PM CST
- Where
- Cumberland County, Crossville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.950, -85.033
Dime size hail reported.
Flash Flood, Cumberland
- When
- July 3, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Cumberland County, Crossville
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.950, -84.998 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Sheriff's office reported several roads flooded.
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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 3, 2001
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, July 3, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 3, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 3, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, July 3, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 3, 2001
- Hail in Wyoming, July 3, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 3, 2001
- Damaging Wind in California, July 3, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, July 3, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 3, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 3, 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: 5258960, 5258961, 5258959, 5259070, 5259071.