Thunderstorm Wind, Knox
- When
- July 30, 3:30 PM EST
- Where
- Knox County, 5 mi N of Knoxville
- Crop damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.033, -83.933
Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 30, 2002
Trees down on Jones, Tazewell, and Maloneyville Roads.
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 happened
The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.
Trees down on Jones, Tazewell, and Maloneyville Roads.
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 Jul 30, 2:15 PM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 2:15 PM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 315 PM EDT TUE JUL 30 2002 THE FOLLOWING ARE ALL THE FORECAST DISCUSSIONS FROM THE PAST 24 HOURS...WITH THE MOST RECENT ON TOP. THIS PROVIDES A HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CURRENT FORECAST. ********************************************************************* AFTERNOON FORECAST DISCUSSION 315 PM EDT TUE JUL 30 2002 RETURN TO TYPICAL SUMMER WEATHER IN STORE OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS FOLLOWING THE SHORT WAVE ENHANCED CONVECTIVE EVENT THIS AFTERNOON. STILL SOME QUESTION AS TO HOW MUCH PRECIP WILL LINGER INTO TONIGHT AND EARLY TOMORROW. ETA/MESOETA TIME HEIGHTS DEPICT SIGNIFICANT DRYING IN THE MID AND UPPER LEVELS COMMENCING AT ABOUT 15Z WEDNESDAY. THIS WOULD SUGGEST LESS COVERAGE OF DIURNAL CONVECTION ON WEDNESDAY. AM INCLINED TO KEEP LOW POPS HOWEVER. IN THE MEANTIME...TIME HEIGHTS SHOW GOOD MOISTURE PROFILE WITH MODEST LIFT OVERNIGHT. WILL GENERALLY STICK WITH LOW POPS FOR TONIGHT. REST OF NEAR TERM FORECAST APPEARS REASONABLE AND WILL MAKE ONLY COSMETIC TWEAKS. EXTENDED...00Z AVN ADVERTISES SIGNIFICANT AMPLIFICATION WITH A TROUGH DEVELOPING OVER THE NORTH CENTRAL CONUS DAYS 6 AND 7. THIS FEATURE IS GENERALLY NOT SUPPORTED BY THE ENSEMBLES WHICH ARE PREFERRED. THUS...HAVE GONE ABOVE MEX GUIDANCE TEMPS SLIGHTLY FOR THOSE TWO DAYS. SUFFICIENT MOISTURE SHOULD HAVE RETURNED TO THE AREA TO WARRANT LOW POPS FOR THEN ALSO. FWC/MAV TEMPS GENERALLY CLOSE AND LOOK REASONABLE...WILL NOT STRAY FAR. CHA 73 90 71 91 / 30 50 20 30 TYS 71 89 71 90 / 30 40 10 30 TRI 68 87 66 89 / 30 30 10 20 OQT 72 90 71 90 / 30 40 10 30 .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. LCM ********************************************************************* MIDDAY FORECAST DISCUSSION (UPDATE) 1000 AM EDT TUE JUL 30 2002 NO CHANGES PLANNED. FORECAST FOR TODAY GENERALLY APPEARS TO BE ON TRACK. MODELS CONTINUE TO ADVERTISE AN INCREASE IN MOISTURE AT ALL LEVELS. WEAK SHORT WAVE AND SURFACE TROUGH CONTINUE TO PUSH TOWARD OUR AREA ALTHOUGH THE MODELS HAVE SLOWED THIS PROGRESSION SOMEWHAT. HOWEVER WITH THE INCREASE IN MOISTURE...IT IS STILL CONCEIVABLE THAT A GOOD COVERAGE OF CONVECTION WILL FIRE WITH THE AFTERNOON HEATING. NO SIGNIFICANT CLOUD COVER HAS MATERIALIZE YET SO FORECAST TEMPS APPEAR REASONABLE. .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. LCM ********************************************************************* 330 AM EDT TUE JUL 30 2002 LITTLE CHANGE TO CURRENT FORECAST. LEAN TOWARD MAV PRECIP DEPICTION TDY AND TOWARD THE MET SOLUTION TONIGHT. ALL MODELS LOOK TOO CLOUDY AND COOL FOR TODAY. SHORT WAVE TROUGH MOVING EAST THROUGH GRTLKS THIS MORNING. SHEAR AXIS EXTENDS FM OH RVR VLY TO TX. SHORT WAVE PULLS SHEAR AXIS INTO TN VLY TDY AS HEIGHTS FALL OVER TN. WEAK CYCLONIC LIFTS UP FM E GLFMEX TWRDS GA LATE TNGT. TIMING AND LOCATION OF THESE FEATURES TNGT IN DOUBT. WILL FAVOR AN ETA SOLUTION WHICH KEEPS AXIS OF SHEAR W OF E TN TNGT. THIS WOULD ALLOW FOR A BETTER CHC OF SHWRS/TSTMS S AREAS WERE ALL THE MODELS SHOW DECENT Q-VECTOR CONVRGNC THERE WITH CONTINUED HIGH PWS. BY WED...TROUGHING CONTINUES WITH AXIS SE OF MRX CWA. WEAK SFC HIGH PRESSURE SETS IN WITH GOOD LAYER RIDGING BUILDING IN FM THE W. CHA TT 092/071 090/071 092 17555 TYS TB 089/071 089/071 091 17534 TRI BB 089/068 089/066 089 17323 OQT TB 090/069 090/070 091 17534= .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. SON ********************************************************************* EVENING UPDATE DISCUSSION 850 PM MON JUL 29 2002 ONGOING CONVECTION IN LINE AHEAD OF FRONT (WHICH LIES BACK NORTH OVER OHIO RIVER. SOME STORMS SEVERE. WITH MORE CONVECTION ROTATING NORTHWARD INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND THEN SLIDING SLOWLY EAST, WILL KEEP ISOLATED STORMS IN ALL ZONES OVERNIGHT. WILL NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE. ADJUST EVENING WORDING. BB
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 30, 12:49 PM EST, 2 hours 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN, TN
149 PM EDT TUE JUL 30 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0830 PM COUNTYWIDE TN WIND DAMAGE
07/29/02 BLEDSOE NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
COUNTYWIDE. REPORTED BY
ELECTRIC COMPANY.
GRC/TGThe radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 50 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:29 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 Wisconsin, July 30, 2002
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, July 30, 2002
- Heat in Arkansas, July 30, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, July 30, 2002
- Hail in Nebraska, July 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, July 30, 2002
- Lightning Strikes in Tennessee, July 30, 2002
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Arkansas, July 30, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 30, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 30 to 31, 2002
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, July 2002
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: 5309034.