A strong cold front tracked through the region bringing strong non-thunderstorm winds to extreme southwest North Carolina.
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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.
The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.
A strong cold front tracked through the region bringing strong non-thunderstorm winds to extreme southwest North Carolina.
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 Dec 1, 8:11 AM EST, 19 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
811 AM EST FRI DEC 1 2006
.DISCUSSION...BASED ON CALLS RECEIVED FROM CLAIBORNE COUNTY AND TYS
ASOS WIND REPORTS...AS WELL AS VAD WIND PROFILE DATA...HAD TO
UPDATE AND INCREASE WIND SPEEDS ACROSS MUCH OF THE FORECAST AREA.
WIND ADVISORY AREAS...EXCEPT FOR SE TN AND SW NC...WERE UPGRADED TO
A HIGH WIND WARNING.
ALSO...STILL VERY WARM JUST AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT...SO HOURLY
TEMPS WERE ADJUSTED UP TO REFLECT THIS TEMPORARY WARM AIR BEFORE
TEMPS DROP. POPS WERE REASONABLE...BUT DID DECREASE POPS SLIGHTLY
IN THE WESTERN MOST AREAS.
WORDING IN THE NPW STATES THAT STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE THIS MORNING
OUTSIDE OF THE EARLIER ISSUED HIGH WIND WARNING AREA FOR THE ERN
MTNS.
&&
.MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NC...WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
CHEROKEE...AND CLAY.
TN...HIGH WIND WARNING UNTIL 6 PM FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
ANDERSON...BLOUNT SMOKY MOUNTAINS...CAMPBELL...CLAIBORNE...
COCKE SMOKY MOUNTAINS...GRAINGER...HAMBLEN...HANCOCK...
HAWKINS...JEFFERSON...JOHNSON...KNOX...LOUDON...MORGAN...NW
BLOUNT...NORTH SEVIER...NORTHWEST CARTER...NORTHWEST
COCKE...NORTHWEST GREENE...ROANE...SCOTT TN...SEVIER SMOKY
MOUNTAINS...SOUTHEAST CARTER...SOUTHEAST GREENE...SOUTHEAST
MONROE...SULLIVAN...UNICOI...UNION...AND WASHINGTON TN.
WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
BLEDSOE...BRADLEY...EAST POLK...HAMILTON...MARION...
MCMINN...MEIGS...NORTHWEST MONROE...RHEA...SEQUATCHIE...AND
WEST POLK.
VA...HIGH WIND WARNING UNTIL 6 PM FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
LEE...RUSSELL...SCOTT...WASHINGTON...AND WISE.
&&
TGHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 507 AM EST FRI DEC 1 2006 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-021100- CHEROKEE-CLAY-SCOTT TN-CAMPBELL-CLAIBORNE-HANCOCK-HAWKINS- SULLIVAN-JOHNSON-MORGAN-ANDERSON-UNION-GRAINGER-HAMBLEN- NORTHWEST COCKE-COCKE SMOKY MOUNTAINS-NORTHWEST GREENE- SOUTHEAST GREENE-WASHINGTON TN-UNICOI-NORTHWEST CARTER- SOUTHEAST CARTER-ROANE-LOUDON-KNOX-JEFFERSON-NW BLOUNT- BLOUNT SMOKY MOUNTAINS-NORTH SEVIER-SEVIER SMOKY MOUNTAINS- SEQUATCHIE-BLEDSOE-RHEA-MEIGS-MCMINN-NORTHWEST MONROE- SOUTHEAST MONROE-MARION-HAMILTON-BRADLEY-WEST POLK-EAST POLK-LEE- WISE-SCOTT-RUSSELL-WASHINGTON- 407 AM CST FRI DEC 1 2006 /507 AM EST FRI DEC 1 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL TRACK FROM WESTERN KENTUCKY EARLY THIS MORNING INTO THE GREAT LAKES REGION LATER TODAY. STRONG WINDS AROUND THIS SYSTEM WILL AFFECT THE AREA TODAY...WITH THE STRONGEST WINDS EXPECTED OVER THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE EAST TENNESSEE MOUNTAINS. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL DIMINISH BY THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A few trees down countywide.
Several power outages from fallen trees countywide.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, December 2006
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: 8246, 8248.