Tornado, Blount
- When
- June 2, 8:45 PM EST to 8:48 PM EST
- Where
- Blount County, 4 mi NW of Maryville
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $200,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 35.783, -84.017
Tornado in Tennessee, June 2, 2001
A strong F0 tornado touched down at the intersection of West Hunt Road and Middlesettlement Road near Old Glory. 1 house and 12 mobile homes were damaged.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
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- Wind
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $200,000
- 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 F0 tornado touched down at the intersection of West Hunt Road and Middlesettlement Road near Old Glory. 1 house and 12 mobile homes were damaged. The path was 1.5 miles non-continuous.
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 2, 6:00 PM EST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 6:00 PM EST, 2 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 7 PM EDT SAT JUN 2 2001 INCREASED SURFACE MOISTURE CONVERGENCE IN THE NORTHERN CUMBERLAND PLATEAU HAS SHIFTED FROM EASTERN KENTUCKY...ALONG A NORTHEAST/ SOUTHWEST TILTED TROUGH/FRONTAL BOUNDARY. THERE IS SOME MODERATE INSTABILITY AVAILABLE FOR STORMS TO GROW AS THEY MOVE EAST...BUT EXPECT THIS TO SIGNIFICANTLY WEAKEN WITH LOSS OF HEATING...AND AS L/L FORCING ALONG FRONTAL BOUNDARY WEAKENS WITH TIME IN THE LATEST SHORT-TERM MODELS. HAVE UPDATED ZONES NORTH PLATEAU AND NORTHERN/ CENTRAL VALLEY...TO INCREASE EARLY EVENING POP TO SCATTERED...WITH ISOLATED SEVERE POSSIBLE THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. DM
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 70 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:45 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Kentucky, June 2, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 2, 2001
- Lightning Strikes in Florida, June 2 to 4, 2001
- Tornado in Ohio, June 2, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in West Virginia, June 2, 2001
- Hail in Mississippi, June 2, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, June 2, 2001
- Hail in Colorado, June 2 to 4, 2001
- Hail in Michigan, June 2, 2001
- Flooding in Missouri, June 2 to 12, 2001
- High Wind in Colorado, June 2, 2001
- Extreme Cold in Oregon, June 2 to 3, 2001
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Tennessee, 2001Warnings 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: 5251974.