Thunderstorm Wind, McMinn
- When
- June 14, 2:15 PM EST
- Where
- McMinn County, Athens
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.450, -84.600
Tree down on a house.
Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 14, 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
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- $5,000
- 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 Jun 14, 1:36 PM EST, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 1:36 PM EST, 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 236 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2001 IN THE SHORT-TERM...MRX RADAR SHOWS A GOOD DEAL OF CONVECTION ACROSS THE PLATEAU INTO WESTERN CENTRAL VALLEY AND SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE. THIS ACTIVITY IS ASSOCIATED WITH A SHEAR AXIS OVER THE FORECAST AREA. ALSO...MSAS AND LAPS SHOWS CAPES AND LIFTED INDICES OF 2000-3000 J/KG AND -6 TO -9...RESPECTIVELY. WILL LIKELY KEEP A CHANCE POP GOING MOST LOCATIONS FOR MAINLY THIS EVENING. WHERE RAIN OCCURS... SOME AREAS OF FOG IS ANTICIPATED...SOME LOCALLY DENSE. MODELS ARE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT IN PULLING A WEAK SURFACE TROUGH INTO THE TENNESSEE VALLEY FOR FRIDAY AND THEN MOVING EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA AROUND 12Z SATURDAY. GIVEN THE ABUNDANT MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY AHEAD OF THIS FEATURE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP AHEAD OF THIS LOW LEVEL BOUNDARY. UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT IS LIMITED AS BEST DYNAMICS ALOFT MOVES NORTH AND WEST OF THE FORECAST AREA. MUCH DRIER AIR...ESPECIALLY MID AND UPPER LEVELS...MOVES INTO THE REGION FOR SATURDAY. ALSO...FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOWS MID- LEVEL WARMING WITH A CAP DEVELOPING DURING THE DAY...SO RETURN OF DRY WEATHER FOR THIS WEEKEND THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. FCSTID = 15 CHA 69 88 68 90 / 30 50 50 0 TYS 67 86 67 87 / 30 50 50 10 TRI 65 85 65 84 / 30 50 50 20 OQT 67 86 67 87 / 30 50 50 10 .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. DH
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 9:11 AM EST, 5 hours 4 minutes before
NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-005- 006-008-142100- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 1011 AM EDT THU JUN 14 2001 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG DAMAGING WINDS... HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS EAST TENNESSEE...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA... A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING HELPING TO FOCUS THE VERY WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR ACROSS THE REGION. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND INTENSIFY THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS EAST TENNESSEE...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA WITH ISOLATED STORMS POSSIBLY BECOMING SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS...HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. THE HEAVY RAINS MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED PONDING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND STREET FLOODING. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS WILL NEED TO KEEP ABREAST OF THE POTENTIAL OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR FAVORITE RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. DH
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 134 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:21 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
- Heat in Texas, June 14, 2001
- Tornadoes in Iowa, June 14, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, June 14, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 14 to 20, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 14, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Kansas, June 14, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, June 14, 2001
- Extreme Cold in Colorado, June 14, 2001
- Flash Flood in Missouri, June 14, 2001
- Flash Flood in Arkansas, June 14 to 15, 2001
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 14, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Iowa, June 14, 2001
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, June 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: 5251873.