A boundary across east Tennessee triggered isolated severe thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening hours. Storm reports contained damaging thunderstorm winds.
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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.
A boundary across east Tennessee triggered isolated severe thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening hours. Storm reports contained damaging thunderstorm winds.
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 4, 2:05 PM EST, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 305 PM EDT THU JUN 4 2009 .SHORT TERM...LATEST 18Z SURFACE ANALYSIS INDICATES THAT FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDS SOUTHWEST FROM JUST EAST OF LOZ-BNA-NEAR MSL LINE. LATEST 88-D RETURNS ALSO VERIFY THIS PLACEMENT OF THE BOUNDARY...AS A LINE OF SHRA/TSRA HAS BEEN DEVELOPING AND MOVING SOUTHEAST THROUGH SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY AND TO ALONG THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU TO NEAR CHA. EXPECT BOUNDARY TO CONTINUE TO SHIFT TO THE SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. AM STILL A LITTLE CONCERNED ABOUT SOME OF THE STORMS ALONG THE LINE APPROACHING THAT COULD BE TRAINING AND PRODUCING SOME ISOLATED HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS THROUGH THE EVENING. WILL CONTINUE WITH LIKELY PRECIP CHANCES FA-WIDE OVERNIGHT. PRECIP SHOULD BE LESSENING WITH TIME ACROSS MY WESTERN COUNTIES AFTER 06Z- 09Z TIME FRAME AND THIS IS GENERALLY ACCEPTED AS PER NAM/GFS TIMING. AS FAR AS TEMPS ARE CONVERENED...NAM/GFS NUMBERS ARE ABOUT THE SAME...AND GENERALLY ACCEPTED FOR TONIGHT. ON FRIDAY...STILL FEEL THAT THERE WILL BE LINGERING -SHRA UNTIL AT LEAST 18Z...SO WILL CONTINUE WITH CHANCE POPS FA-WIDE AS PER GOING FORECAST. WILL CONTINUE WITH LIKELY POPS IN EASTERN COUNTIES/MOUNTAINS. FOR FRIDAYS TEMP FORECAST...WILL AGAIN GO CLOSE TO NAM/GFS NUMBERS AS THEY APPEAR TO BE GENERALLY ACCEPTABLE. .LONG TERM (FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY)...HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING IN BRINGING DRY WEATHER FOR SATURDAY. AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE TRACKS TO THE EAST OF THE CWA ON SUNDAY SO WILL KEEP LOW CHANCE POPS IN FOR SUNDAY FOR THE MOUNTAINS AND DRY ELSEWHERE. THE DISTURBANCE LINGERS INTO MONDAY...SO WILL KEEP LOW CHANCE POPS FOR MONDAY WITH THE BEST CHANCES IN THE UPSLOPE AREAS. A FRONT PUSHES INTO THE REGION ON TUESDAY AND LINGERS INTO WEDNESDAY. WILL KEEP CHANCE POPS GOING FOR BOTH PERIODS. THE FRONT EXITS THE AREA ON THURSDAY...WITH STILL UNCERTAINTY ON TIMING...WILL KEEP ONLY SLIGHT CHANCE POPS GOING ON THURSDAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... CHATTANOOGA AIRPORT, TN 63 76 58 86 60 / 70 40 10 10 10 KNOXVILLE MCGHEE TYSON AIRPORT, TN 61 75 57 84 60 / 70 50 10 10 10 OAK RIDGE, TN 61 77 56 85 59 / 70 40 10 10 10 TRI CITIES AIRPORT, TN 60 73 55 82 56 / 70 50 10 10 10 && .MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. && TROUTMAN/GH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 530 AM EDT THU JUN 4 2009 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-051000- 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- 530 AM EDT THU JUN 4 2009 /430 AM CDT THU JUN 4 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION TODAY. A FEW OF THESE MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. ADDITIONALLY...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE...CREATING PONDING ON ROADWAYS AND MINOR LOW LAND FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 316 PM EDT THU JUN 4 2009 TNZ073-074-042015- NORTH SEVIER-SEVIER SMOKY MOUNTAINS- 316 PM EDT THU JUN 4 2009 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE AFFECTING SEVIER COUNTY... AT 315 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES EAST OF PIGEON FORGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. PEOPLE IN SEVIER COUNTY...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS...IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH PER HOUR...MAY OCCUR WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...AND POSSIBLE MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. TURN AROUND DONT DROWN DGS
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
542 PM EDT THU JUN 04 2009
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0530 PM FLASH FLOOD DUNLAP 35.37N 85.39W
06/04/2009 SEQUATCHIE TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
DISPATCH REPORTED THAT SEVERAL CITY STREETS AND SOME
HOMES WERE FLOODED THROUGHOUT DUNLAP.
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DMGThe Knoxville radar (KMRX), 31 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:59 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement officials reported one tree downed by thunderstorm winds |on Sharp Road east of Sevierville.
Law enforcement officials reported one tree downed by thunderstorm winds |on Thomas Cross Road east of Sevierville.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 172644, 172645.