A few severe thunderstorms developed across Southeast Tennessee in the vicinity of a weak cool frontal boundary in place across the Southern Appalachians.
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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 few severe thunderstorms developed across Southeast Tennessee in the vicinity of a weak cool frontal boundary in place across the Southern Appalachians.
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 Jul 13, 9:41 AM EST, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED HEADER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1041 AM EDT WED JUL 13 2011 .DISCUSSION... SCATTERED CONVECTION FIRING OVER THE PLATEAU AND HIGHER TERRAIN OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. THIS ACTIVITY APPEARS TO BE ENHANCED AHEAD OF AN MCV EVIDENT ON VIS IMAGERY OVER SE KY THIS MORNING. AFTER THIS INITIAL TRIGGER DAYTIME HEATING/CONVECTIVE OUTFLOWS SHOULD YIELD ADDITIONAL CONVECTIVE INITIATION. AIRMASS WILL BE MODERATELY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON WITH VERY WEAK SHEAR SO EXPECT "PULSE" TYPE STORMS WITH A FEW BECOMING STRONG TO LOCALLY SEVERE. PREVIOUS FORECAST 40-50 POPS LOOKS GOOD. REST OF CURRENT FORECAST IN GOOD SHAPE AS WELL...NO UPDATE PLANNED. .MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. && JOHNSTONE
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 408 AM EDT WED JUL 13 2011 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-140900- 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- 408 AM EDT WED JUL 13 2011 /308 AM CDT WED JUL 13 2011/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT VERY HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN TODAY...WITH HEAT INDEX VALUES REACHING 100 TO 1O5 FOR A FEW HOURS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTHERN TENNESSEE VALLEY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG...POSSIBLY SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND TO A LESSER EXTENT LARGE HAIL...THE PRIMARY THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED AT TIMES THIS AFTERNOON FOR STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 121 PM EDT WED JUL 13 2011 TNZ081>084-098>101-131815- BLEDSOE-BRADLEY-HAMILTON-MARION-MEIGS-RHEA-SEQUATCHIE-WEST POLK- 121 PM EDT WED JUL 13 2011 ...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS AFFECTING BLEDSOE...BRADLEY...HAMILTON...MARION...MEIGS...POLK...RHEA AND SEQUATCHIE COUNTIES... AT 119 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHATTANOOGA TO NEAR DAYTON. PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. TPJ
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:04 UTC.
6 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
One tree was reported down on power lines at 1500 Jenkins Road.
Power lines were reported down at 6900 Lee Highway.
One tree was reported down at 1124 Bancroft Road.
One tree was reported down at Pleasant Grove Road and Withrow Road.
One tree was reported down on Valley View Highway in the vicinity of Sequatchie.
One tree was reported down in Whitwell.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, July 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: 312351, 312353, 312354, 312358, 312368, 312393.