Name: Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 2, 2002
Start: 2002-06-02T15:15
End: 2002-06-02T15:15
Location: Tennessee

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $15,000
Crop damage: None recorded
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.

A few trees reported down across power lines in north and central part of county.

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 2, 1:49 PM EST, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 1:49 PM EST, 1 hour 26 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
129 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002

FIRST SHORT-TERM...STATIONARY FRONT EXISTS ACROSS FROM SOUTHWEST
INDIANA TO EASTERN KENTUCKY WITH THETA-E RIDGE AXIS AND INSTABILITY
GRADIENT OVER KENTUCKY AND OVER NORTHEAST HALF OF FORECAST AREA.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST KENTUCKY IS EXPECTED TO BUILD SLOWLY
EAST AND SOUTH INTO SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHEAST TENNESSEE...
SPCS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. WILL CALL FOR HIGH EVENING POPS
THERE. MODELS SHOW ACTIVITY DECREASING RAPIDLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT.

FRONT IS PROGGED TO LIFT NORTHEAST MONDAY WITH WARMING THICKNESS...
SO WILL CALL FOR RETURN OF MAINLY DRY CONDITIONS WITH HOT...HAZY
AND HUMID CONDTIONS. SOME ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED TERRAIN
DRIVEN CONVECTION POSSIBLE.

FOR TUESDAY...SURFACE RIDGE PULLS EAST ALLOWING DEEPER MOISTURE TO
RETURN. MODELS SHOW MORE DIURNAL CONVECTION WITH BEST CHANCES OVER
THE TERRAIN AND SOUTHERN FORECAST AREA.

IN THE EXTENDED...WENT ABOVE GUIDANCE TEMPS AND DRIER FOR THIS
WEEKEND...BUT LATER SHIFTS MAY NEED TO DROP POPS FOR FRIDAY AS WELL.
NEW AVN SUGGESTS A MORE PROGRESSIVE FRONT AND UPPER TROUGH WITH
FROPA LATE THURSDAY.

FCSTID =
CHA   69  95  70  91 /  10  10  10  40
TYS   68  92  69  90 /  20  10  10  30
TRI   64  88  64  89 /  40  30  20  30
OQT   68  92  69  90 /  20  10  10  30

.MRX...
NC...NONE.
TN...NONE.
VA...NONE.

DH

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 141 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:17 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Johnson

When: June 2, 3:15 PM EST
Where: Johnson County, Central Portion
Property damage: $15,000
Reported by: UTILITY COMPANY
Coordinates: 36.467, -81.867

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

More

Every storm in Tennessee in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Tennessee, June 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: 5301671.