Thunderstorm Wind, Blount
- When
- July 27, 6:30 PM EST
- Where
- Blount County, 2 mi S of (Tys)mcghee Tyson Kn
- Measured
- 63 kt (72 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $60,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 35.800, -84.000
Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 27, 2005
5 miles south of McGhee-Tyson airport at the Green Meadow Country Club Golf Course where 152 trees were downed with some of the trees entirely uprooted.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
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- Wind
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $60,000
- 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.
Major damage occurred 1.5 miles south of McGhee-Tyson airport at the Green Meadow Country Club Golf Course where 152 trees were downed with some of the trees entirely uprooted.
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 27, 1:53 PM EST, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 1:53 PM EST, 4 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 253 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2005 .SHORT TERM...(TONIGHT AND THURSDAY)...A COLD FRONT OVER WEST TENNESSEE...IS SLOWLY WORKING ITS WAY EAST. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...THE AIR MASS REMAINS WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE. IN ADVANCE OF THE FRONT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORMING AND WILL MOVE INTO THE MRX CWA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LI/S ARE BETWEEN -4 AND -6 AND CAPES GENERALLY ABOVE 2000J...AND THERE REMAINS THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS. THE COLD FRONT SHOULD REACH INTO THE AREA OVERNIGHT WITH ASSOCIATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING ALONG AND JUST AHEAD OF THE FRONT. THE FRONT SHOULD STALL OVER THE AREA...PROVIDING CONTINUED DYNAMICS FOR CONVECTION ON THURSDAY. A MINOR COOLING TREND IS EXPECTED WITH THE FRONT...WITH THURSDAY/S TEMPERATURES A DEGREE TO TWO COOLER THAN TODAY/S. .LONG TERM...(THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY)...UPPER LEVEL TROUGH DEVELOPING FROM ERN CANADA SOUTHWARD...IS SHOWN TO EXTEND INTO THE TN VALLEY BY 12Z FRIDAY...THEN SOUTHERN END OF THIS TROUGH LINGERS WELL INTO THE WEEKEND. THIS FACTOR PLUS SOME UNCERTAINTY AS TO HOW FAR SOUTH THE WEAK COLD FRONT PUSHES...LEADS TO THE NEED TO CARRY AT LEAST CHANCE POPS INTO MONDAY. DECIDED TO CARRY LOWER END OF LIKELY POPS FOR EXTREME ERN MOST MTNS DAYTIME FRIDAY DUE TO EXPECTED CONVERGENCE...AND TO ALSO BETTER MESH WITH NEIGHBORING GRIDS FROM GSP/RNK. BY TUESDAY...THERE WOULD APPEAR TO BE JUST A WEAK SHEAR AXIS LEFT OF THE UPPER TROUGH...WITH HEIGHTS STARTING TO RISE INTO WEDS. ANOTHER WEAK FRONT NOTED ON HPC PROGS COULD BE A WEAK FOCUS FOR CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT BY THAT TIME...BUT THIS IS TOO FAR OUT TO TIME WITH ANY CONFIDENCE. CONSENSUS FROM NEIGHBORING OFFICES WAS TO GENERALLY LOWER POPS TO BELOW CLIMO FOR TUE AND WED...WHICH WORKED OUT TO LESS THAN 30 PERCENT CHANCE FOR OUR FORECAST AREA. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... CHATTANOOGA AIRPORT, TN 73 88 71 85 / 30 50 50 30 KNOXVILLE MCGHEE TYSON AIRPORT, TN 72 87 69 82 / 40 50 40 30 OAK RIDGE, TN 72 87 69 83 / 40 50 40 30 TRI CITIES AIRPORT, TN 69 84 67 80 / 40 50 40 40 && .MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC......NONE. TN......NONE. VA......NONE. && MJB/TG
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 4:09 AM EST, 14 hours 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 509 AM EDT WED JUL 27 2005 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-005- 006-008-281000- 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- 509 AM EDT (409 AM CDT) WED JUL 27 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST TENNESSEE...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE (TODAY AND TONIGHT)... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION TODAY...BRINGING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH IT. THERE IS A RISK THAT SOME OF THE STORMS THAT DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT MAY BECOME SEVERE... WITH STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN (THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY)... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. 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, Jul 27, 5:24 PM EST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
624 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0620 PM FLASH FLOOD SWEETWATER 35.60N 84.47W
07/27/2005 MONROE TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES DOWN.
&&Local storm report, Jul 27, 5:25 PM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
625 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0620 PM TSTM WND DMG SWEETWATER 35.60N 84.47W
07/27/2005 MONROE TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES DOWN.
&&Local storm report, Jul 27, 5:42 PM EST, 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
642 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0630 PM TSTM WND DMG LENOIR CITY 35.80N 84.27W
07/27/2005 LOUDON TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE.
&&Local storm report, Jul 27, 5:43 PM EST, 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
643 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0450 PM TSTM WND DMG 1 S POUND 37.11N 82.61W
07/27/2005 WISE VA LAW ENFORCEMENT
FEW TREES DOWN ALONG HWY 23
0530 PM TSTM WND DMG DAYTON 35.49N 85.01W
07/27/2005 RHEA TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN.
0540 PM HAIL NORRIS DAM STATE PARK 36.24N 84.12W
07/27/2005 0.75 INCH CAMPBELL TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
0615 PM TSTM WND DMG HARRIMAN 35.93N 84.56W
07/27/2005 ROANE TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
FEW TREES DOWN NORTH HALF OF COUNTY.
0620 PM TSTM WND DMG SWEETWATER 35.60N 84.47W
07/27/2005 MONROE TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES DOWN.
0630 PM TSTM WND DMG LENOIR CITY 35.80N 84.27W
07/27/2005 LOUDON TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE.
&&Local storm report, Jul 27, 6:00 PM EST, 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
700 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0650 PM TSTM WND DMG 5 NE ELIZABETHTON 36.39N 82.17W
07/27/2005 CARTER TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
FEW TREES DOWN.
&&Local storm report, Jul 27, 6:15 PM EST, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
715 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0700 PM HAIL 6 SW MOUNTAIN CITY 36.41N 81.88W
07/27/2005 0.75 INCH JOHNSON TN AMATEUR RADIO
0705 PM TSTM WND GST MARYVILLE 35.75N 83.97W
07/27/2005 60 MPH BLOUNT TN AMATEUR RADIO
60 MPH WINDS NEAR FOOTHILLS MALL.
&&The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 68 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:32 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
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, July 27, 2005
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Massachusetts, July 27, 2005
- Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, July 27, 2005
- Lightning Strike in Pennsylvania, July 27, 2005
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Connecticut, July 27, 2005
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, July 27, 2005
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 27, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 27, 2005
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 27, 2005
More
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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: 5465357.