Thunderstorm Wind, Loudon
- When
- June 6, 3:20 PM EST
- Where
- Loudon County, Countywide
- Crop damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.783, -84.350
Several trees down.
Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 6, 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
- $10,000
- 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 6, 2:04 PM EST, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 2:04 PM EST, 1 hour 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 304 PM EDT WED JUN 6 2001 ...SHORT TERM CONCERNS ARE INCREASING CONVECTION AT MID AFTERNOON ...WHILE FURTHER OUT THE SENSIBLE WEATHER FOR FRIDAY IS OF CONCERN... STRONG CONVECTION UNDERWAY AT THIS TIME...MAINLY THAT WHICH DEVELOPED ALONG GA-TN STATELINE AND ALONG ERN EDGE OF CUMBERLAND PLATEAU. THIS CONVECTION IS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST UP THE TENNESSEE VALLEY. THE OTHER AREA OF GOOD DEVELOPMENT IS ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA (MOVING EAST)...WHICH LIKELY DEVELOPED ALONG AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM EARLIER CONVECTION ACROSS SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. THUS...I WILL KEEP POPS AT OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE MOS FOR TONIGHT. BASED ON LATEST RADAR TRENDS...I MAY ADD AREAL QUALIFIERS WHERE LESS THAN LIKELY POPS ARE USED. THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO OUR NORTH...AND ANY ASSOCIATED OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES...SHOULD SAG SOUTH INTO THE FORECAST AREA BY EARLY THURSDAY. ALSO...THE UPPER LEVEL FLOW BECOMES MORE W-NW TO ALLOW STORM MOVEMENT ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. THUS...KEPT LIKELY POPS GOING FOR BOTH THE SECOND AND THIRD PERIODS. HARDEST PERIOD?...I FOUND TO BE FRIDAY...WITH ETA/MESO-ETA SUGGESTING MORE WIDESPREAD CONVECTION CONTINUING...WHILE NGM/AVN OFFERED A DRIER LOOKING FORECAST. NGM/AVN MAY BE MORE CORRECT IN LESSENING ANY AFFECTS FROM THE REMNANTS OF ALLISON...WHILE ETA/MESO-ETA SEEM TO EJECT A WEAK VORT/SPEED MAX ENE ACROSS SE TN/SW NC EARLY FRIDAY. SINCE FRONTAL BOUNDARY SHOULD BE SAGGING SOUTH ON FRIDAY...I KEPT BEST CHANCE POPS ACROSS OUR SRN MOST ZONES FRIDAY...WITH SLIGHT CHANCE TO CHANCE POPS ELSEWHERE. MOS TEMPS WERE QUITE CLOSE EACH PERIOD...AND GENERALLY FOLLOWED. ALTHOUGH...I DID GO SLIGHTLY ABOVE MOS FOR CHA TOMORROW. IN THE EXTENDED PERIODS...RAIN CHANCES DIMINISH SIGNIFICANTLY...BECOMING NEAR CLIMO OR LESS. MY PRELIMINARY TEMPS/POPS FOLLOW FOR COORDINATION PURPOSES: CHA 69/84/67/81/65 40/60/70/50 TYS 67/83/65/80/62 30/60/70/30 TRI 65/79/62/78/58 50/70/60/20 OQT 67/82/64/79/61 30/60/70/30 .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. TG
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 95 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:18 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
- Rip Current in Florida, June 6, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, June 6, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, June 6, 2001
- Flood and Lightning Strike in Georgia, June 6, 2001
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, June 6, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Ohio, June 6, 2001
- Flash Flood in Ohio, June 6, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, June 6, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, June 6, 2001
- Tornado in South Dakota, June 6, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Heavy Rain in Virginia, June 6, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, June 6, 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: 5251957.