Hail, Blount
- When
- June 25, 1:25 PM EST
- Where
- Blount County, 4 mi N of Maryville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 35.800, -83.967
Hail in Tennessee, June 25, 2001
Hail reported on Berns Station Road near the Knox County line.
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
- 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.
Hail reported on Berns Station Road near the Knox County line.
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 25, 9:40 AM EST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 9:40 AM EST, 3 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 419 AM EDT MON JUN 25 2001 UPPER LOW JUST TO OUR EAST. VORTICITY MAXES TRIGGERING SHOWERS IN NE ZONES AND CHEROKEE AND CLAY. CLOUDS WILL CONTINUE PUSHING INTO CWA THIS AFTERNOON AS UPPER LOW SHIFT WEST....WILL GO WITH INCREASING CLOUDS WHERE ITS NOT MOSTLY CLOUDY ALREADY. WITH CLOUDS...WILL UPDATE TO LOWER TEMPERATURES A BIT IN THE CENTRAL AND NORTH. POPS LOOK GOOD. WITH THE COLD UPPER LOW OVER THE AREA...COULD SEE ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...BUT THINK MOISTURE TOO LIMITED FOR WIDESPREAD ACTIVITY. .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. GH
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 65 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:09 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, June 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, June 25, 2001
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, June 25 to 27, 2001
- Flood in Texas, June 25, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, June 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, June 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 25, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 25, 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: 5251803.