Name: Hail in Tennessee, May 26, 2006
Start: 2006-05-26T14:58
End: 2006-05-26T14:58
Location: Tennessee

Where it happened

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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 happened

The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.

Quarter size hail was reported five miles south southeast of Kingsport.

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 26, 1:50 PM EST, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 1:50 PM EST, 1 hour 8 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
250 PM EDT FRI MAY 26 2006

.SHORT TERM...(TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY)...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING ACROSS SW VA AND SE KY AS
SHORTWAVE ENERGY ROTATES AROUND UPPER LOW MOVING EAST FROM SOUTHERN
ONTARIO TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST. A FEW OTHER STORMS ARE DEVELOPING AS
WELL ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER IN SE TN AND SW NC WHERE AIRMASS IS
MOST UNSTABLE AND MAY BE FOCUSED ON OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES LEFT OVER
FROM OVERNIGHT ACTIVITY. GFS MODEL KEEPS HIGHEST POPS NORTHEAST
ENDING BY MORNING AS UPPER LOW MOVES EAST AND RIDGING MOVES IN FROM
THE SOUTH AND WEST. ALSO NAM MODEL HAS HIGHER POPS ACROSS SE TN AS
IT BRINGS ACTIVITY SOUTHEAST AROUND RIDGE LATER THIS EVENING.
GENERALLY FOLLOWED MAV GUIDANCE ON TEMPS AND POPS BUT HAVE POPS
HIGHER TONIGHT SE TN WITH POSSIBLE ACTIVITY MOVING LATER TONIGHT.
DID NOT CHANGE POPS MUCH SATURDAY. KEPT SHOWERS OUT EXCEPT FOR SE TN
AND SW NC. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING WITH POSSIBLE MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

.LONG TERM...(SAT NIGHT THROUGH FRI)...UPPER RIDGE TO BE OVER THE
EASTERN US FOR SAT NIGHT INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK.  SHOULD BE IN A
SUMMERLIKE PATTERN WITH SOME ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING
CONVECTION POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY SOUTHWEST CLOSER TO THE DEEPER
MOISTURE AND FURTHER WEST OF THE RIDGE AXIS.  THINK NAM IS OVERDOING
HOW MUCH RESIDUAL MOISTURE WILL BE OVER THE AREA...SO WENT CLOSE TO
GFS MOS POPS THROUGH MONDAY.  RIDGE BEGINS TO BREAK DOWN BY
MIDWEEK...AND GFS HAS A COLD FRONT MOVING IN ON THU.  HOWEVER...WILL
HOLD OFF THE FRONT ONE DAY CLOSER TO HPC SOLUTION FOR NOW.  AT ANY
RATE...WILL HAVE CHANCE POPS FOR LATER PERIODS.  WILL GENERALLY MAKE
ONLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO GFS MOS TEMPS.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
CHATTANOOGA AIRPORT, TN  68  89  67  91 /  40  30  20  20
KNOXVILLE MCGHEE TYSON AIRPORT, TN  66  87  65  89 /  30  10  10  20
OAK RIDGE, TN  65  88  65  89 /  30  10  10  20
TRI CITIES AIRPORT, TN  62  85  56  88 /  30  10  10  10

&&

.MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NC...NONE.
TN...NONE.
VA...NONE.
&&

TD/LDW

Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 4:30 AM EST, 10 hours 28 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
530 AM EDT FRI MAY 26 2006

NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-
005-006-008-271000-
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 VA-RUSSELL-WASHINGTON VA-
530 AM EDT (430 AM CDT) FRI MAY 26 2006

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THIS
MORNING.  SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD REACH STRONG TO SEVERE LEVELS.
ADDITIONAL CONVECTION IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON WITH A CONTINUED
MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS IN PLACE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY.

MJB

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 10:04 AM EST, 4 hours 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
1104 AM EDT FRI MAY 26 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0200 AM     TSTM WND DMG     2 S JELLICO             36.55N 84.13W
05/26/2006                   CAMPBELL           TN   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            FEW TREES DOWN IN THE SANDY BEACH AREA.

0220 AM     TSTM WND DMG     10 W TAZEWELL           36.46N 83.76W
05/26/2006                   CLAIBORNE          TN   DEPT OF HIGHWAYS

            FEW TREES DOWN.

0230 AM     TSTM WND DMG     TAZEWELL                36.46N 83.58W
05/26/2006                   CLAIBORNE          TN   DEPT OF HIGHWAYS

            FEW TREES DOWN.

0230 AM     TSTM WND DMG     EWING                   36.63N 83.43W
05/26/2006                   LEE                VA   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            FEW TREES DOWN.

0240 AM     TSTM WND DMG     COEBURN                 36.95N 82.47W
05/26/2006                   WISE               VA   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            FEW TREES DOWN.

&&

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 87 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:55 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Sullivan

When: May 26, 2:58 PM EST
Where: Sullivan County, 5 mi SSE of Kingsport
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 36.483, -82.517

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

More

Every storm in Tennessee in 2006 Every state in 2006 This day in weather history Warnings in Tennessee, May 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: 5510353.