Thunderstorm Wind, Sevier
- When
- June 4, 1:55 PM EST
- Where
- Sevier County, Gatlinburg
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Reported by
- UTILITY COMPANY
- Coordinates
- 35.717, -83.517
Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 4, 2002
Trees reported down on power lines
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
- $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.
Trees reported down on power lines
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 4, 8:45 AM EST, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 8:45 AM EST, 5 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 945 AM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002 NO CHANGES WARRANTED. SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW MOISTURE FEED FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO INTO THE SOUTHEASTERN CONUS. MOST OF THIS MOISTURE IS BEING FUNNELED UP THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE APPALACHIANS BUT STILL EXPECT SOME TO INFILTRATE EAST TENNESSEE. THUS CHANCE POP SEEMS REASONABLE ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF THE INSTABILITY PRESENT. TEMPS APPEAR ON TRACK TO APPROACH RECORD HIGHS THIS AFTERNOON PER MOS AND LAMP DATA. .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. LCM
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 4, 1:23 PM EST, 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN, TN
223 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0131 PM OCOEE TN .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/02 POLK REPORTED BY TVA.
0215 PM OCOEE TN .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/02 POLK REPORTED BY TVA.
GMThe radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 51 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:54 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
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Texas, June 4, 2002
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 4 to 5, 2002
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, June 4, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood in Iowa, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, June 4, 2002
- Flood in Iowa, June 4, 2002
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5300374.