Isolated thunderstorms developed across extreme southwest North Carolina during the evening hours producing damaging thunderstorm wind.
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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.
Isolated thunderstorms developed across extreme southwest North Carolina during the evening hours producing damaging thunderstorm wind.
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 19, 7:06 PM EST, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
806 PM EDT SUN JUN 19 2011
.DISCUSSION...ISSUED UPDATE TO ZONES TO EXTEND WW 511 UNTIL 02Z AS
SCATTERED SEVERE STORMS LURK UPSTREAM. ALSO REMOVED AFTERNOON
PERIOD. OTHERWISE...NO CHANGES MADE AT THIS TIME.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
CHATTANOOGA AIRPORT, TN 70 96 71 95 71 / 20 10 10 10 20
KNOXVILLE MCGHEE TYSON AIRPORT, TN 68 93 69 93 70 / 40 20 10 10 20
OAK RIDGE, TN 68 93 69 93 70 / 40 20 10 10 20
TRI CITIES AIRPORT, TN 66 90 65 92 66 / 60 20 10 10 20
&&
.MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NC...NONE.
TN...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 6 AM EDT MONDAY 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 6 AM EDT MONDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
LEE...RUSSELL...SCOTT...WASHINGTON...WISE.
&&
LCMHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 200 PM EDT SUN JUN 19 2011 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-201000- 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- 200 PM EDT (100 PM CDT) SUN JUN 19 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST TENNESSEE...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION THIS AFTERNOON...WITH ANOTHER COMPLEX FROM THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE AREA LATER TONIGHT. WITH THESE STORMS...THERE WILL BE THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAINFALL. IN ADDITION...AN ISOLATED TORNADO OR TWO WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY...BRINGING MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...AND AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY. DMG
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
1007 PM EDT SUN JUN 19 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1005 PM HAIL TEN MILE 35.67N 84.67W
06/19/2011 E1.00 INCH MEIGS TN AMATEUR RADIO
&&PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
1028 PM EDT SUN JUN 19 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1028 PM FUNNEL CLOUD MOUNT CREST 35.67N 85.24W
06/19/2011 BLEDSOE TN TRAINED SPOTTER
&&PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
1035 PM EDT SUN JUN 19 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1028 PM HAIL NIOTA 35.51N 84.55W
06/19/2011 E0.75 INCH MCMINN TN AMATEUR RADIO
&&PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
1043 PM EDT SUN JUN 19 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1040 PM HAIL 5 SSE MADISONVILLE 35.46N 84.33W
06/19/2011 E1.00 INCH MONROE TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
&&PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
1058 PM EDT SUN JUN 19 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1055 PM TSTM WND DMG ATHENS 35.45N 84.60W
06/19/2011 MCMINN TN AMATEUR RADIO
TREE DOWN ON HOME.
&&PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
1101 PM EDT SUN JUN 19 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1055 PM TSTM WND DMG 1 SE ATHENS 35.44N 84.59W
06/19/2011 MCMINN TN AMATEUR RADIO
TREE DOWN ON HOME AT 108 MASON STREET.
&&The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 134 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:20 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement personnel reported several trees and powerlines downed by thunderstorm wind countywide.
Law enforcement personnel reported several trees downed by thunderstorm wind in Brasstown.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, June 2011
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: 314682, 314683.