Name: Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
Start: 2001-06-29T21:15
End: 2001-06-29T21:15
Location: Tennessee

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: $17,000
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 29, 8:57 PM EST, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 8:57 PM EST, 18 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
957 PM EDT FRI JUN 29 2001

RADAR SHOWING ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING
NORTH FROM GA.  INTENSITY SHOULD CONTINUE TO DIMINISH THE REST OF
THIS EVENING AS WE LOSE HEATING...BUT WILL KEEP THE LOW CHANCE POPS
GOING THE REST OF TONIGHT FOR ALL THE ZONES.  TEMPERATURES LOOK
GOOD.  WILL UPDATE TO TAKE OUT EVENING WORDING...NO OTHERS CHANGES
PLANNED.

.MR/X...
NC...NONE.
TN...NONE.
VA...NONE.

GH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 29, 6:04 PM EST, 3 hours 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN, TN
704 PM EDT FRI JUN 29 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0430 PM    JOHNSON CITY              TN   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/01   WASHINGTON                     SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN
                                          JOHNSON CITY REPORTED BY
                                          WASHINGTON COUNTY EOC.

0450 PM    NEAR JEAROLDSTOWN         TN   .75 INCH HAIL
06/29/01   GREENE                         DIME SIZED HAIL WAS
                                          REPORTED ALONG I-81 IN
                                          EXTREME NORTHEAST GREENE
                                          COUNTY. REPORTED BY LOCAL
                                          CITIZENS.

0510 PM    FALL BRANCH               TN   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/01   WASHINGTON                     TREE BLOWN DOWN ON A HOUSE
                                          IN FALL BRANCH. REPORTED BY
                                          WASHINGTON COUNTY EOC.

0520 PM    BLOOMINGDALE              TN   .88 INCH HAIL
06/29/01   SULLIVAN                       NICKLE SIZED HAIL REPORTED
                                          IN BLOOMINGDALE. ALSO
                                          FLOODED ROADS IN THE SAME
                                          TOWN. REPORTED BY SPOTTERS.

0535 PM    NEAR KINGSPORT            TN   .75 INCH HAIL
06/29/01   SULLIVAN                       DIME SIZED HAIL IN THE
                                          GRAVELLY COMMUNITY ON THE
                                          NORTH SIDE OF KINGSPORT.
                                          REPORTED BY HAM/SPOTTERS

0550 PM    DUNGANNON                 VA   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/01   SCOTT                          SEVERAL TREES DOWN NEAR
                                          DUNGANNON. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Polk

When: June 29, 9:15 PM EST
Where: Polk County, Turtletown
Crop damage: $17,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 35.133, -84.350

Several trees down.

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.

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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: 5251780.