Hail, Bledsoe
- When
- May 20, 12:05 PM CST
- Where
- Bledsoe County, Pailo
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $8,000
- Reported by
- DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
- Coordinates
- 35.467, -85.317
Hail in Tennessee, May 20, 2006
Baseball size hail damaged some highway department vehicles in Pailo.
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
- $8,000
- 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.
Baseball size hail damaged some highway department vehicles in Pailo.
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 May 20, 8:15 AM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 20, 8:15 AM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 1015 AM EDT SAT MAY 20 2006 .DISCUSSION...FRONTAL BOUNDARY STRETCHED WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE CWA TODAY AND WILL ACT A FOCUSING MECHANISM FOR AFTERNOON/EVENING CONVECTION. THE AIR MASS REMAINS A BIT UNSTABLE THIS MORNING AND WITH AFTERNOON HEATING SHOULD BECOME MODERATELY UNSTABLE. THE POSITION OF THE BOUNDARY WILL SHIFT AROUND NEAR TO JUST SOUTH OF OUR SOUTHERN BORDER THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING WITH THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO MOVE ALONG IT. SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME STRONG AND POTENTIALLY SEVERE. ALL ON TRACK IN THE CURRENT FORECAST...WILL UPDATE TO REMOVE MORNING WORDING. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... CHATTANOOGA AIRPORT, TN 83 63 82 60 / 30 40 40 20 KNOXVILLE MCGHEE TYSON AIRPORT, TN 79 60 78 57 / 30 30 30 20 OAK RIDGE, TN 78 59 77 56 / 30 30 30 20 TRI CITIES AIRPORT, TN 75 53 74 51 / 20 20 30 20 && .MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. && MJB
Hazardous weather outlook, May 20, 2:40 AM CST, 9 hours 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 440 AM EDT SAT MAY 20 2006 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-211000- 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- 440 AM EDT (340 AM CDT) SAT MAY 20 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS EAST TENNESSEE...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ...A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... A STATIONARY FRONT WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AND SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS TODAY PROVIDING A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. WARM...MOIST AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE FRONT CAN BE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. AS A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES RIDE SOUTHEAST ALONG THE STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY... THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOPED. DUE TO THE EXPECTED VERY UNSTABLE AIR- MASS ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE FRONT...SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40. THE MAIN CONCERN WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A STATIONARY FRONT WILL LINGER AROUND THE TENNESSEE RIVER VALLEY THROUGH NEXT WEEK...WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE EACH DAY...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...SOME SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AT TIMES EACH DAY THROUGHOUT THE UPCOMING WEEK. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. DH
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:07 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 20, 2006
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- Damaging Winds in Texas, May 20, 2006
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, May 20, 2006
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- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, May 20, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 20, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 20, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 20, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 20, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 20, 2006
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 20, 2006
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: 5510568.