Thunderstorm Wind, Shelby
- When
- July 30, 6:10 PM CST to 6:15 PM CST
- Where
- Shelby County, Memphis
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 35.133, -90.017
A couple of trees were blown down.
Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 30, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 6
- Property damage
- $26,000
- 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 Jul 30, 2:00 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 2:00 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 300 PM CDT MON JUL 30 2001 SUMMER HAS RETURNED WITH A VENGEANCE OVER THE MID SOUTH...WITH TEMPS IN THE LOW/MID 90S AND DEWPOINTS IN THE MID/UPPER 70S. HX VALUES AROUND 105 IN MANY AREAS TODAY. TOMORROW...DEWPOINTS WILL DROP BUT TEMPS WILL INCREASE. AS A RESULT...FIRST CONSIDERATION IS WHETHER A HEAT ADV SHOULD BE ISSUED FOR PART OF THE CWFA. WITH DEWPOINTS DECREASING...THINK TODAY WAS THE WORST OF IT AND WILL HOLD OFF...INSTEAD HEADLINING IN ZONES...SIMILAR TO SURROUNDING OFFICES. SHRA/TSRA ON 88D THIS AFTERNOON...WOULD EXPECT THIS TO DISSIPATE AROUND SUNSET...IF NOT BEFORE. FIRST PD POPS TO BE BASED ON RADAR... BUT PROBABLY ALL ISOLATED. OTHERWISE...MODEL GUIDANCE LOOKS OK. DEWPOINTS SHOULD DECREASE AS THE UPPER RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE AREA THROUGHOUT THE WEEK. MODELS PROG RIDGE TO BUILD IN STRONG...SO WOULD ANTICIPATE HOT AND DRY CONDITIONS OVER THE FA. MODELS DO SHOW SOME PM ACTIVITY TOMORROW OVER FAR SRN PARTS OF THE FA (CLOSER TO THE SFC BOUNDARY)...AND MAY END UP PLACING A POP IN TUPELO ZONE FOR TUESDAY. PRELIMINARILY WILL LEAVE AS A SILENT 10 POP. EXTENDED...AVN BREAKS DOWN THE RIDGE BY THE END OF THE WEEK... ALLOWING DIURNAL CONVECTION...BUT AM NOT READY TO BUY INTO THAT SCENARIO YET. WILL LEAVE EXTENDED AS IS FOR NOW. JE/23 PRELIM DIGITS... MEM 77/95/78/95/77 11--0 MKL 73/94/73/94/72 11--0 JB+R 74/95/74/95/74 11--0 TUP 75/94/74/94/73 211-0 .MEG...NONE.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash Flood, Shelby
- When
- July 30, 6:15 PM CST to 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Shelby County, Memphis
- Injuries
- 6 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 35.184, -89.896 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy rain caused part of the roof at a Sears store to collapse. Six persons suffered minor injuries. Some street flooding also occurred.
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.
- 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
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, July 30, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 30, 2001
- Heat in Minnesota, July 30 to 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 30, 2001
- Hail in North Dakota, July 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, July 30, 2001
- Dense Fog in Wisconsin, July 30, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 30, 2001
- Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 30, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, July 30 to 31, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 30, 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: 5259923, 5259924.