Thunderstorm complex tracked along a boundary during the afternoon and evening hours. Most of the storm reports were for thunderstorm wind damage, but a few hail occurrences were also reported.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.
Thunderstorm complex tracked along a boundary during the afternoon and evening hours. Most of the storm reports were for thunderstorm wind damage, but a few hail occurrences were also reported.
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 17, 6:21 PM EST, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
721 PM EDT WED JUN 17 2009
.AVIATION...A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL PRODUCE
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO WITH THE BEST
CHANCE AT TYS. HAVE PUT TEMPO THUNDER IN AT TYS NEXT HOUR WITH VCTS
AT CHA UNTIL 03Z WITH ACTIVITY STILL UPSTREAM. CONVECTION WILL DISSIPATE BY
AROUND 1-2Z WITH POSSIBLE MVFR CEILING DEVELOPING. IFR CONDITIONS
EXPECTED AT TRI AFTER 06Z WITH SOME FOG. VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED AT
ALL TAF SITES BY 14-15Z THURSDAY WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AT
TRI AROUND 18Z.
&&
.MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NC...NONE.
TN...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: ANDERSON...BLOUNT SMOKY MOUNTAINS...CAMPBELL...
CLAIBORNE...COCKE SMOKY MOUNTAINS...GRAINGER...HAMBLEN...
HANCOCK...HAWKINS...JEFFERSON...JOHNSON...KNOX...LOUDON...
MORGAN...NW BLOUNT...NORTH SEVIER...NORTHWEST CARTER...
NORTHWEST COCKE...NORTHWEST GREENE...ROANE...SCOTT TN...
SEVIER SMOKY MOUNTAINS...SOUTHEAST CARTER...SOUTHEAST
GREENE...SULLIVAN...UNICOI...UNION...WASHINGTON TN.
VA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: LEE...RUSSELL...SCOTT...WASHINGTON...WISE.
&&
TDHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 1053 AM EDT WED JUN 17 2009 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-181500- 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- 1053 AM EDT WED JUN 17 2009 /953 AM CDT WED JUN 17 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL THIS EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN HALF OF EAST TENNESSEE... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP ACROSS ALL OF EAST TENNESSEE... SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...AND SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AIRMASS WILL BE QUITE UNSTABLE AND MOIST PRODUCING STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE MAIN CONCERN WILL BE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. BESIDES THE SEVERE STORMS...TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE ALSO ANTICIPATED WHICH MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS...LOW LYING AREAS...AND MUD SLIDES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED TODAY. DH
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
754 PM EDT WED JUN 17 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0625 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 SW CASTLEWOOD 36.86N 82.31W
06/17/2009 RUSSELL VA LAW ENFORCEMENT
A FEW TREES DOWN NEAR CASTLEWOOD. REPORTED BY DISPATCH.
0700 PM TSTM WND DMG 3 E CASTLEWOOD 36.88N 82.23W
06/17/2009 RUSSELL VA LAW ENFORCEMENT
A FEW TREES DOWN BETWEEN CASTLEWOOD AND LEBANON. REPORTED
BY DISPATCH.
0742 PM HAIL FARRAGUT 35.87N 84.18W
06/17/2009 E0.75 INCH KNOX TN TRAINED SPOTTER
THREE QUARTER INCH HAIL IN FARRAGUT. REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
ASOS OBSERVER.
0742 PM HAIL SEVIERVILLE 35.89N 83.58W
06/17/2009 E0.75 INCH SEVIER TN AMATEUR RADIO
PENNY SIZED HAIL ON PINE HOLLOW WAY IN EAST SEVIERVILLE.
REPORTED BY HAM RADIO OPERATOR.
&&
FERRELLPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
806 PM EDT WED JUN 17 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0657 PM TSTM WND DMG MOUNTAIN CITY 36.47N 81.81W
06/17/2009 JOHNSON TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
SEVERAL TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN THE MOUNTAIN CITY
AREA. REPORTED BY DISPATCH.
&&
FERRELLPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
817 PM EDT WED JUN 17 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0815 PM HAIL MARYVILLE 35.75N 83.97W
06/17/2009 E0.75 INCH BLOUNT TN AMATEUR RADIO
PENNY SIZE HAIL AT WAL MART ON HWY 411.
&&
FERRELLPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
826 PM EDT WED JUN 17 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0823 PM HAIL KNOXVILLE 35.97N 83.95W
06/17/2009 E0.75 INCH KNOX TN TRAINED SPOTTER
PENNY AND DIME SIZE HAIL ON MONTVALE RD.
&&
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</html>The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 133 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:01 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement personnel reported one tree downed by thunderstorm winds in Murphy along with power outages.
Law enforcement personnel reported thunderstorms produced penny-size hail in Hayesville.
Law enforcement personnel reported numerous trees downed by thunderstorm winds in Hayesville and countywide.
Law enforcement personnel reported numerous trees downed by thunderstorm winds from Hayesville to Shooting Creek and Chatuga Lake and old Highway 64.
Law enforcement personnel reported a few trees downed by thunderstorm winds in and around Murphy.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, June 2009
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 174045, 174046, 174048, 174053, 174055.