Hail in Tennessee, April 12, 2005

Name: Hail in Tennessee, April 12, 2005
Start: 2005-04-12T19:57
End: 2005-04-12T20:05
Location: Tennessee

April 12, 2005 · NWS MRX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.

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Wind
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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 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 Apr 12, 7:45 PM EST, 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 12, 7:45 PM EST, 12 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
845 PM EDT TUE APR 12 2005

.DISCUSSION...FRONT LIES N-S FROM POLK COUNTY...TO LOUDON
COUNTY...TO SCOTT COUNTY, TN. DEWPOINTS BEHIND FRONT ARE GENERALLY
IN THE 40S WITH MAILY 50S AHEAD. BORDERLINE SEVERE PULSE CONVECTION
FIRING ALONG FRONT AND MOVING QUICKLY WITH IT. CURRENT POPS DROP
OVERNIGHT WITH FRONTAL PASSAGE AND WILL LEAVE AS IS. AM INCLINED TO
LEAVE REST OF FORECAST ALONE, AS WELL. NO UPDATES.
&&

.MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NC......NONE.
TN......NONE.
VA......NONE.

&&

BB

Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 12, 4:19 AM EST, 15 hours 38 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
519 AM EDT TUE APR 12 2005

NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-005-
006-008-131000-
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-
519 AM EDT (419 AM CDT) TUE APR 12 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST TENNESSEE...SOUTHWEST
VIRGINIA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE (TODAY AND TONIGHT)...

A SURFACE FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION TODAY...TRIGGERING
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS.  SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE
LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS
POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN (WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY)...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MRX.

GH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 12, 6:41 PM EST, 1 hour 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
741 PM EDT TUE APR 12 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0705 PM     HAIL             4 NW PIKEVILLE          35.65N 85.25W
04/12/2005  0.75 INCH        BLEDSOE            TN   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            PENNY SIZED HAIL ON WHEELER MOUNTAIN ON THE CUMBERLAND
            PLATEAU.

&&

FERRELL

Local storm report, Apr 12, 7:52 PM EST, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
852 PM EDT TUE APR 12 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0814 PM     TSTM WND DMG     5 S BENTON              35.10N 84.65W
04/12/2005                   POLK               TN   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            1 TREE DOWN ON WELCOME VALLEY ROAD.

&&

FERRELL

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 125 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:56 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, McMinn

When: April 12, 7:57 PM EST to 8:05 PM EST
Where: McMinn County, 2 mi N of Niota
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 35.550, -84.567

Dime-size hail nearly covering the ground on County Road 351.

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

Every storm in Tennessee in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in Tennessee, April 2005

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: 5442743.