Name: Damaging Wind in Tennessee, March 9, 2006
Start: 2006-03-09T18:45
End: 2006-03-09T18:45
Location: Tennessee

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $15,000
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.

Several trees fell on power lines across the northwestern part of the county near Monteagle.

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 Mar 9, 6:20 PM CST, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 6:20 PM CST, 25 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
720 PM EST THU MAR 9 2006

.DISCUSSION...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 56 IN EFFECT FOR
EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE UNTIL 1 AM THURSDAY MORNING.
UPDATED FORECAST TO REFLECT THIS WATCH. TIMING OF THUNDERSTORMS
STILL APPEARS GOOD SO NO CHANGES THERE IN FORECAST. REMAINDER OF
WIND ADVISORIES AND RED FLAG WARNINGS CONTINUE IN EFFECT.

&&

.MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NC...WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 4 AM FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
     CHEROKEE...AND CLAY.

TN...WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 4 AM FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
     ANDERSON...BLEDSOE...BLOUNT SMOKY MOUNTAINS...CAMPBELL...
     CLAIBORNE...COCKE SMOKY MOUNTAINS...EAST POLK...HANCOCK...
     JOHNSON...MARION...MORGAN...RHEA...ROANE...SCOTT TN...
     SEQUATCHIE...SEVIER SMOKY MOUNTAINS...SOUTHEAST CARTER...
     SOUTHEAST GREENE...SOUTHEAST MONROE...UNICOI...AND UNION.

     LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 4 AM FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
     BRADLEY...GRAINGER...HAMBLEN...HAMILTON...HAWKINS...
     JEFFERSON...KNOX...LOUDON...MCMINN...MEIGS...NW BLOUNT...
     NORTH SEVIER...NORTHWEST CARTER...NORTHWEST COCKE...
     NORTHWEST GREENE...NORTHWEST MONROE...SULLIVAN...WASHINGTON
     TN...AND WEST POLK.

VA...RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 10 PM THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
     LEE...RUSSELL...SCOTT...WASHINGTON...AND WISE.

     WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 4 AM FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: LEE...
     RUSSELL...SCOTT...WASHINGTON...AND WISE.

&&

HW

Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 9, 9:10 AM CST, 9 hours 35 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
1010 AM EST THU MAR 9 2006

NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-005-
006-008-101000-
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-
1010 AM EST (910 AM CST) THU MAR 9 2006

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

DRY CONDITIONS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL COMBINE TODAY TO PRODUCE
THE POTENTIAL FOR DANGEROUS FIRE CONDITIONS. LOCAL RESIDENTS ARE
DISCOURAGED FROM BURNING TODAY...ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTHWEST
VIRGINIA. A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT ACROSS SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
UNTIL THIS EVENING. PLEASE SEE MEMRFWMRX FOR FURTHER DETAILS.

A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO MOVE EAST ACROSS THE
TENNESSEE RIVER VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON...AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES.
THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE ONTO THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU AFTER
SUNSET...AND WEAKEN AS THEY MOVE ACROSS EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST
VIRGINIA. HOWEVER...THERE WILL STILL BE THE THREAT FOR STRONG
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WITH THESE STORMS...ESPECIALLY ACROSS
THE WESTERN HALF OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. IN ADDITION...AN ISOLATED
TORNADO OR TWO WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE PLATEAU AND ADJACENT
VALLEY AREAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE WEEKEND
AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...BUT RIGHT NOW...ANY POSSIBLE SEVERE
ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE FAIRLY SCATTERED THROUGH THIS WEEKEND.
ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA MONDAY NIGHT OR
TUESDAY...BRINGING ANOTHER CHANCE FOR ORGANIZED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
ACTIVITY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING...AND AGAIN LATER ON
MONDAY NIGHT OR TUESDAY.

DMG

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 36 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:45 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Marion

When: March 9, 6:45 PM CST
Where: Marion County, West Portion
Measured: 60 kt (69 mph) estimated gust
Property damage: $15,000
Reported by: UTILITY COMPANY
Coordinates: 35.117, -85.767

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

More

Every storm in Tennessee in 2006 Every state in 2006 This day in weather history Warnings in Tennessee, March 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: 5495036.