Thunderstorm Wind, Greene
- When
- June 26, 12:05 PM EST
- Where
- Greene County, Mohawk
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- UTILITY COMPANY
- Coordinates
- 36.200, -83.050
Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 26, 2001
Power lines blown down disrupted service to around 4100 customers for approximately 40 minutes.
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
- $20,000
- 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.
Power lines blown down disrupted service to around 4100 customers for approximately 40 minutes.
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 26, 9:29 AM EST, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 9:29 AM EST, 2 hours 36 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 1029 AM EDT TUE JUN 26 2001 WILL UPDATE TO TAKE OUT MORNING FOG...NO OTHER CHANGES PLANNED. SATELLITE SHOWING COLD CORE UPPER LOW SPINNING OVER TN/KY BORDER WHICH IS PRETTY WELL TIMED BY 06Z MESOETA. UPPER LOW PROGGED TO CONTINUE MOVING WEST. SOME THUNDERSTORMS ALREADY FIRING IN NC...WITH A FEW SHOWERS EXTENDING INTO OUR MOUNTAINS AND NORTHEAST ZONES. EXPECT SIMILAR SCATTERED COVERAGE AS YESTERDAY...WILL KEEP 50 POPS IN THE MOUNTAINS AND 40 POPS FOR THE VALLEY AND PLATEAU. BUT...WE HAVE MORE CLOUDS THAT YESTERDAY WHICH SHOULD HOLD DOWN TEMPERATURES A BIT AND KEEP CONVECTION FROM GETTING OUT OF HAND. STILL EXPECT ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE PULSE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING WITH DECENT INSTABILITY AND VORTICITY MAXES PROVIDING LIFT...BUT PROBABLY LESS THAN YESTERDAY. TEMPERATURES LOOK ON TRACK. .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. GH
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 32 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:05 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 Pennsylvania, June 26 to 30, 2001
- Heavy Rain in Washington, June 26 to 27, 2001
- Wildfire in Alaska, June 26 to 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 26, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, June 26, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 26, 2001
- Tornado in Wyoming, June 26, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Montana, June 26, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 26, 2001
- Hail in Texas, June 26, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Tennessee, June 26, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, June 26, 2001
More
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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: 5251789.