Thunderstorm Wind, Morgan
- When
- June 21, 7:10 PM EST
- Where
- Morgan County, Countywide
- Crop damage
- $21,000
- Reported by
- DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
- Coordinates
- 36.167, -84.633
Trees down.
Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- $21,000
- 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 21, 1:51 PM EST, 5 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 1:51 PM EST, 5 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 251 PM EDT THU JUN 21 2001 SE DIGGING SHORT WAVE VCNTY MO FCST TO BEGIN TO PIVOT NE TONIGHT AND INTO FRI. THIS RESULTS IN LENGTHING AND SHARPENING TROUGH OVER W/MID TN BY FRI. DEEPENING AND INCREASING SW FLOW ACROSS MRX CWA. LOW SURFACE PRESSURE OVER INDIANA BEGINS MOVING NE TONIGHT RESPONDING TO SHORT WAVE. TRAILING FRONTAL BOUNDARY BEGINS SLOW MARCH ACROSS TN TONIGHT AND FRI. CURRENTLY EXPECT FRONT TO MOVE EAST OF MRX CWA AROUND MIDNIGHT FRI NIGHT. UPPER TROUGH AXIS MOVES OVER E TN ON SAT. SCT AFTN/EVE CONVECTION MAINLY OVER ELEVATED AREAS. THEN...MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT...850-700 MB QVECTOR CONVERGENCE AND FAVORABLE OMEGA DEPICTED OVER MRX LATER TONIGHT. WILL GO A TOUCH ABOVE GUIDANCE WITH GOOD CHANCE AND LIKELY POPS. MINS WARM AND NEAR GUIDANCE. FRI...LIKELY TO CATEGORICAL POPS. AIRMASS MOISTENS UP WITH INSTABILITIES BECOMING MODERATE. LIFT FEATURES NOT OVERLY IMPRESSIVE AND AIRMASS SHOULD GET WORKED OVER EARLY. SO SEVERE THREAT REMAINS LOWS. FRI NGT...GREATER UNCERTAINTY WITH POPS. PREFRONTAL TROUGH IS EAST OF AREA WHILE FRONTAL BOUNDARY GETS INTO SW SECTIONS EARLY. TROUGH AXIS STILL W OF E TN BUT SINKING MOTIONS SHOWING UP IN THE LOWER LEVELS. AVN CONTINUES WITH SOME OMEGA OVER NE SECTIONS OVERNIGHT. ALL MODELS PAINT SOME QPF MAINLY EAST OVER MNTS AND NE PART. FOR NOW WILL UNDERCUT GUIDANCE TAPERING POPS FROM 10 SW TO 40 NE. TEMPS NEAR NORMAL. SAT...CLEARING IN THE SW WITH CONTINUED CHC POPS NE. SAT NIGHT...NW FLOW THROUGH MOST OF LAYER SHOULD DRY THINGS WITH MILD COOLING. CHA TB 068/080 062/083 061 17581 TYS TB 067/080 063/081 059 17573 TRI TE 064/078 061/078 057 17574 OQT TB 067/080 063/081 059 17573= .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. SON
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 21, 5:57 PM EST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN, TN
657 PM EDT THU JUN 21 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0640 PM 1 W HUNTSVILLE TN WIND DAMAGE
06/21/01 SCOTT TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
SPOTTER.The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 111 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:10 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
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, June 21, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, June 21 to 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 21, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Virginia, June 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 21, 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: 5251854.