Thunderstorm Wind, Polk
- When
- May 24, 7:25 PM EST
- Where
- Polk County, Benton
- Crop damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.183, -84.667
Trees down.
Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 24, 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
- $5,000
- 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 24, 6:40 PM EST, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 6:40 PM EST, 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 740 PM EDT THU MAY 24 2001 JUST SENT QUICK UPDATE TO THE ZONES TO INCLUDE HEADLINE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. OTHER THAN A FEW MINOR WORDING CHANGES...NO OTHER CHANGES WERE MADE AT THIS TIME. .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. LDW
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 24, 7:00 PM EST, 25 minutes before
NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-005- 006-008-250500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 800 PM EDT THU MAY 24 2001 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EDT (MIDNIGHT CDT) FOR A PORTION OF EAST TENNESSEE... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EAST TENNESSEE ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE THROUGH BLOUNT...KNOX...UNION...AND CLAIBORNE COUNTIES. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS EAST TENNESSEE THIS EVENING...AND WILL MOVE EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 30 TO 40 MPH. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE WIND GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER...ALTHOUGH AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL BE POSSIBLE AS WELL. WHILE THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS WILL BE IN THE WATCH AREA... ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF EAST TENNESSEE...EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AS WELL. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST S,EVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LDW
Local storm report, May 24, 7:02 PM EST, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN, TN
802 PM EDT THU MAY 24 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0735 PM BRADLEY CO LINE TN .75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 HAMILTON NEAR BRADLEY COUNTY LINE.
REPORTED BY DISPATCH.
0745 PM SE PART COUNTY TN .75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01 BRADLEY NEAR MT VIEW SUBDIVISION.
REPORTED BY HAM.The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 132 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:27 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, May 24, 2001
- Hail in Louisiana, May 24, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Washington, May 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 24, 2001
- Flood in Alaska, May 24 to 30, 2001
- Tornado in Alabama, May 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, May 24, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Virginia, May 24, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 24, 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: 5243590.