Thunderstorm Wind, Carter
- When
- May 21, 12:50 PM EST
- Where
- Carter County, 5 mi NE of Elizabethton
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- $13,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.400, -82.150
Trees and power lines down on Highway 91.
Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 21, 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
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- $13,000
- 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 May 21, 9:25 AM EST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 9:25 AM EST, 3 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 1025 AM EDT MON MAY 21 2001 COLD FRONT EXTENDING ACROSS CENTRAL IL...SOUTHEAST MO AND INTO CENTRAL AR. WEAK SHORTWAVE KICKING OFF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MIDDLE TN AND THE WESTERN HALF OF OUR CWA. LIKELY POPS STILL SOUNDS GOOD FOR THIS AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES RISING PRETTY QUICK IN THE NORTHEAST WITH SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS...WILL BUMP UP TEMPERATURES A BIT...BUT CLOUDS SHOULD FILL IN QUICKLY WITH THE APPROACHING SHOWERS. .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. GH
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:50 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
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 21, 2001
- Tornadoes in Michigan, May 21, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Ohio, May 21, 2001
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Ohio, May 21 to 22, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, May 21 to 28, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 21, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in West Virginia, May 21, 2001
- Dense Fog in Virginia, May 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, May 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, May 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, May 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 21, 2001
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, May 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: 5243824.