Thunderstorm Wind, Lee
- When
- June 20, 5:45 PM EST
- Where
- Lee County, 5 mi E of Pennington Gap
- Crop damage
- $18,000
- Reported by
- DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
- Coordinates
- 36.750, -82.950
Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 20, 2001
Trees down on Highway Alternate 58.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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- 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
- $18,000
- 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 on Highway Alternate 58.
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 20, 2:16 PM EST, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 2:16 PM EST, 3 hours 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 316 PM EDT WED JUN 20 2001 SHORT WAVE DIGGING SE FROM MONTANA TOWARD W TN MERGES WITH A SECOND SHORT WAVE FROM THE WEST BY EARLY FRIDAY. THEN BEST ENERGY SWINGS NE SOME WHILE UPPER TROUGHING FROM THE GREAT LAKES SHARPENS TO GULF OF MEXICO COAST. LONG WAVE RIDGING FROM SW U.S. TO UPPER MIDWEST IN WAKE OF SHORT WAVE. UPPER TROUGH AXIS SLIDES TO OVER MRX BY SAT AFTERNOON. AT THAT TIME AVN CONTINUES WITH RETROGRADING CUTOFF LOW IN TROUGH TO JUST NE OF MRX BY EARLY MON. SURFACE FRONT OVER OHIO RIVER VALLEY MOVES LITTLE UNTIL RECEIVING A PUSH FROM THE SHORT WAVES TO THE SE ON FRI AFTN. FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL BE DIFFUSE OR HUNG UP ACROSS S APPALACHIANS FRI NIGHT. FRONT WILL BECOME BETTER DEFINED E AND S OF AREA BY SAT AS SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN OVER TN. EARLY ON IN FORECAST...700 MB LAYER FAIRLY COOL...5C AND WET BULB ZERO AROUND 11500 FT OVER NE PART OF CWA. THIS CREATES A DECENT LAPSE RATE THIS EVENING SO A FEW SLOW MOVING TSTMS MAY BE STRONG. MODEL POPS VERY DRY AND QPF VERY LOW. EXCEPTION BEING MESO- ETA AND FEEL TSTM CHC WORTH MENTION N PART TONIGHT. TEMPS MILD AND SIMILAR TO LAST NIGHT. THU...LAYER REMAINS FAIRLY DRY AND NO FORCING EXPECTED. HOWEVER SCT COVERAGE OF AIRMASS CONVECTION EXPECTED. PREFER WARMER NGM MAX TEMPS. THU NGT...GOOD CHC EVE SHOWERS WITH DECENT 850-700 MB QVECTOR CONVERGENCE ACROSS AREA LATE. SO WILL GO 50 POPS WITH WARM MINS. FRI...FRONTAL MOVES THROUGH...PWS UP EARLY...SHEAR NOT VERY IMPRESSIVE AND CONVECTION SHOULD BE EARLY SO SVR THREAT LOOKS MINIMAL. WILL GO LIKELY POPS. TEMPS WILL BE TRICKY WITH SHOWERS AND CLOUDS. WILL LEAN TOWARD WARMER NGM. CHA BW 067/091 069/083 064 17045 TYS BW 066/089 066/083 062 17144 TRI BW 063/086 064/080 060 17344 OQT BW 066/089 066/083 062 17144= .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. SON
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 76 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:47 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 Hail in Colorado, June 20, 2001
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in Pennsylvania, June 20, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, June 20, 2001
- Hail in Colorado, June 20 to 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Maryland, June 20, 2001
- High Wind in New York, June 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, June 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 20, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 20, 2001
- Lightning Strikes in New York, June 20, 2001
- Flood and Lightning Strike in Kansas, June 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 20 to 21, 2001
More
Every storm in Virginia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Virginia, 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: 5251852.