Hail, Rhea
- When
- June 21, 1:45 PM EST to 1:55 PM EST
- Where
- Rhea County, Spring City
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 35.700, -84.867
Quarter-size hail in Spring City.
Hail in Tennessee, June 21, 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 Jun 21, 8:59 AM EST, 4 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 8:59 AM EST, 4 hours 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 959 AM EDT WED JUN 21 2006 .DISCUSSION... SATELLITE SHOWS A WEAK SHORT-WAVE MOVING SOUTHEAST ACROSS EASTERN KENTUCKY. AIRMASS ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA ALREADY BECOMING MARGINALLY UNSTABLE WITH LIFTED INDICES APPROACHING -4 AND CAPES 0F 1500 J/KG. I EXPECT SCATTERED STORMS TO DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE UPPER WAVE THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA. HAVE UPPED POPS THERE FOR THIS AFTERNOON. UPPER RIDGING WILL CONTINUE TO LIMIT CONVECTION OVER THE REST OF THE AREA. HAVE KEPT CURRENT FORECAST HIGHS AS TEMPERATURES ARE WARMING NICELY AGAIN THIS MORNING. && .MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. && DH
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 4:00 AM EST, 9 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 500 AM EDT WED JUN 21 2006 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-005- 006-008-220900- 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- 500 AM EDT (400 AM CDT) WED JUN 21 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST TENNESSEE...SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED MAINLY AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP TODAY AND MAINLY EARLY TONIGHT ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE AREA...DUE TO DAYTIME HEATING. HOWEVER...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY RAIN CHANCES WILL THEN INCREASE ON FRIDAY INTO THE WEEKEND...AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND ASSOCIATED FRONTAL BOUNDARY APPROACH THE REGION. HOWEVER...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. LCM
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 140 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:46 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 Hail in Ohio, June 21 to 22, 2006
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Ohio, June 21 to 23, 2006
- Tornado in Florida, June 21, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, June 21, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 21, 2006
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, June 21, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 21, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 21, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 21, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 21, 2006
- High Wind in Texas, June 21, 2006
- Flash Flooding in Michigan, June 21, 2006
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, June 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: 5515657.