Hail, Bledsoe
- When
- April 20, 11:30 AM CST to 11:45 AM CST
- Where
- Bledsoe County, 1 mi N of Pikeville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
- Coordinates
- 35.617, -85.200
Penny-size hail near Pikeville.
Hail in Tennessee, April 20, 2006
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.
- 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 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 20, 10:40 AM CST, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 20, 10:40 AM CST, 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 1240 PM EDT THU APR 20 2006 .DISCUSSION...WILL UPDATE ZONES TO INCLUDE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #221 AS APPROPRIATE. && .MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. && LCM
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 20, 3:19 AM CST, 8 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 519 AM EDT THU APR 20 2006 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-210930- 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- 419 AM CDT THU APR 20 2006 /519 AM EDT THU APR 20 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER ARKANSAS AND WEST TENNESSEE THIS MORNING WILL TRACK EAST...REACHING EAST TENNESSEE THIS AFTERNOON. A WARM AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL HELP THE STORMS INTENSIFY...SOME REACHING SEVERE LIMITS. THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE LOCATION WITH THE GREATEST CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE IN THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU AND CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN TENNESSEE VALLEY. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS...AFFECTING NORTHEAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A MORE ORGANIZED LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BRING A GREATER CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND FRIDAY NIGHT...AND SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND POSSIBLY A FEW TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER NETWORK ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. DGS
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 20, 11:05 AM CST, 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
105 PM EDT THU APR 20 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1250 PM HAIL PITTMAN CENTER 35.76N 83.39W
04/20/2006 E1.00 INCH SEVIER TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
&&The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 111 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:29 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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Texas, April 20, 2006
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, April 20, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, April 20, 2006
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Tennessee, April 20 to 21, 2006
- Hail in Mississippi, April 20, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, April 20 to 21, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 20, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, April 20, 2006
- Hail and Heavy Rain in Kentucky, April 20, 2006
- Hail in Texas, April 20, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, April 20, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 20, 2006
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, April 2006
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: 5501511.