Hail, Unicoi
- When
- May 8, 4:40 PM EST
- Where
- Unicoi County, 1 mi S of Banner Hill
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.117, -82.417
Hail in Tennessee, May 8, 2004
Dime size hail was reported one mile south of Banner Hill.
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
- 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.
Dime size hail was reported one mile south of Banner Hill.
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 8, 2:18 PM EST, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 2:18 PM EST, 2 hours 22 minutes before
.SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT)...WIND SHIFT AND DP BOUNDARY WILL CONTINUE ALONG OR JUST EAST OF NC/TN STATE LINE THROUGH SUNDAY. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR SOME LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONVERGENCE THAT WILL BE ENHANCED BY AFTN OROGRAPHIC LIFT SO ISOLD AFTN/EVE TSTMS REMAIN POSSIBLE. OTHERWISE TEMPS REMAIN ABOVE NORMAL FAVORING COOLER NGM MINS AND COOLER MAV MAXS. RIDGE ALOFT WEAKENS SOME AS WEAK UPR TROUGH DRIFTS NE REMAINING ON WEST SIDE OF MS RVR THROUGH MON. THIS WILL INCREASE CLOUDS SOME AS LAYER MOISTENS IN SW FLOW. TRIGGERS LACKING MONDAY SO LOW CONFIDENCE IN SLGT CHC POPS FOR CUMBERLAND PLATEAU AND MNTS. .LONG TERM (TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY)...GFS CONTINUING TO ADVERTISE WEAK SHORTWAVES ROTATING THROUGH THE REGION INTO THURSDAY...ALONG WITH DECENT INSTABILITY. MOISTURE HAS INCREASED A BIT FROM EARLIER RUNS...BUT STILL THINKING IT WILL BE DIURNAL ACTIVITY AND WILL KEEP ONLY SLIGHT CHANCE POPS INTO THURSDAY. WELL DEFINED COLD FRONT STILL APPROACHING ON LATE FRIDAY...BRINGING DEEPER MOISTURE WITH IT. WILL KEEP 30 POPS ON LATE FRIDAY...AND FRIDAY NIGHT. FRONT PASSES CWA ON SATURDAY...BEST CHANCES WILL BE SATURDAY MORNING...BUT STILL SOME ISOLATED ACTIVITY IN THE AFTERNOON AS THE UPPER TROUGH PASSES. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... CHATTANOOGA, TN 61 88 61 85 / 0 0 10 10 KNOXVILLE, TN 62 87 61 84 / 10 0 10 10 BRISTOL, TN 56 85 55 84 / 10 0 10 10 OAK RIDGE, TN 60 86 60 83 / 10 0 10 10 && .MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. && SON/GH
Hazardous weather outlook, May 8, 3:55 AM EST, 12 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 455 AM EDT SAT MAY 8 2004 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-005- 006-008-090900- ANDERSON-BLEDSOE-BLOUNT SMOKY MTN-BRADLEY-CAMPBELL-CHEROKEE- CLAIBORNE-CLAY-COCKE SMOKY MTN-EAST POLK-GRAINGER-HAMBLEN-HAMILTON- HANCOCK-HAWKINS-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-KNOX-LEE-LOUDON-MARION-MCMINN- MEIGS-MORGAN-NORTH SEVIER-NORTHWEST CARTER-NORTHWEST COCKE- NORTHWEST GREENE-NORTHWEST MONROE-NW BLOUNT-RHEA-ROANE-RUSSELL- SCOTT TN-SCOTT VA-SEQUATCHIE-SEVIER SMOKY MTN-SOUTHEAST CARTER- SOUTHEAST GREENE-SOUTHEAST MONROE-SULLIVAN-UNICOI-UNION- WASHINGTON TN-WASHINGTON VA-WEST POLK-WISE- 455 AM EDT (355 AM CDT) SAT MAY 8 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST TENNESSEE...SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE (TODAY AND TONIGHT)... HIGH PRESSURE WILL PERSIST ACROSS THE REGION AND PROVIDE WARM TEMPERATURES...AND MAINLY DRY WEATHER. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN (SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY)... THE AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL WEAKEN ALONG WITH A SLIGHT INCREASE IN MOISTURE...LEADING TO AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. THE BEST CHANCES FOR SIGNIFICANT RAINS MAY OCCUR ON THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. HOWEVER...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MRX. TG
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 89 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:42 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding in Wisconsin, May 8, 2004
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Iowa, May 8 to 9, 2004
- Flash Flood in Texas, May 8, 2004
- Hail in Iowa, May 8, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Texas, May 8, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Wisconsin, May 8, 2004
- Hail in Michigan, May 8, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strikes in New York, May 8 to 9, 2004
- Flood in Alaska, May 8 to 12, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 8, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, May 8, 2004
- Hail in Nebraska, May 8, 2004
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, May 2004
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: 5395133.