Name: Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 28, 2001
Start: 2001-06-28T20:45
End: 2001-06-28T20:45
Location: Tennessee

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $1,000
Crop damage: $6,000
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 happened

The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.

Trees down and shutters blown off homes.

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 28, 2:02 PM EST, 6 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 2:02 PM EST, 6 hours 43 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
302 PM EDT THU JUN 28 2001

ONLY WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN
THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. DO EXPECT SOME INCREASE IN COVERAGE DURING
THE LATE AFTERNOON WITH WEAK SURFACE TO 80H CONVERGENCE AND
MOISTURE CONVERGENCE. EXPECT THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP
TO BE DIURNAL...AND WILL ONLY HAVE SCT POPS FOR THIS EVENING.

MODELS AGREE IN GENERAL. THEY BRING ANOTHER WEAK 50H SHORTWAVE
TOWARD SE TN BY 12Z FRIDAY MORNING. OTHER THAN THAT AND THE UPPER
LOW CONTINUING TO DRIFT WESTWARD...LOOKS LIKE MORE OF THE SAME WITH
SCT AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH SATURDAY.

WITH GO WITH SLIGHTLY HIGHER POPS ON FRIDAY...GIVEN SOME WEAK UPPER
DIVERGENCE AND THE PRESENCE OF THAT WEAK 50H SHORTWAVE NEAR SE TN.
CAPES AGAIN SHOULD BE AROUND 2000 J/KG FOR BOTH FRIDAY AND
SATURDAY...BUT WARMER MID LEVEL TEMPS...WEAK WIND FIELD AND THE
LACK OF MID LAYER DRY AIR WILL LIMIT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO VERY
ISOLATED STORMS.

IN THE EXTENDED...WILL GO WITH JUST PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES ON SUNDAY AND
MONDAY AS THE INFLUENCE FROM THE UPPER LOW WILL CONTINUE TO LESSEN.
FLOW BECOMES MORE NORTHWESTERLY TOWARD THE 4TH...WHICH WILL ALLOW A
COLD FRONT TO SLIP INTO THE OHIO VALLEY AND TOWARD THE TN VALLEY
BRINGING A CHANCE OF STORMS FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.

SHORT TERM LOW TEMPS AT OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE FWC/MAV GIVEN SCT-BKN CLOUD
COVER. THAT SAME SCT-BKN CLOUD COVER WILL YIELD AT OR SLIGHTLY BELOW
FWC/MAV TEMPS FOR HIGHS.

FCSTID = 25
CHA   69  84  69  86 /  30  50  30  30
TYS   67  85  68  85 /  30  40  30  30
TRI   64  85  65  84 /  30  40  30  30
OQT   66  84  67  86 /  30  40  30  30

.MRX...
NC...NONE.
TN...NONE.
VA...NONE.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Blount

When: June 28, 8:45 PM EST
Where: Blount County, 3 mi NE of Maryville
Property damage: $1,000
Crop damage: $6,000
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 35.783, -83.933

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

More

Every storm in Tennessee in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5251786.