A boundary across the area triggered thunderstorms during the evening hours. A few of the storms produced 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.
A boundary across the area triggered thunderstorms during the evening hours. A few of the storms produced 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 21, 6:26 PM EST, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 726 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2011 .AVIATION...SCATTERED TO WIDESPREAD CONVECTION WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AND SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS THROUGH THE PERIOD. MOIST SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW WILL PERSIST WITH LIGHT WINDS OUTSIDE OF STORMS. THE BULK OF THE CONVECTION WILL MOVE AFFECT THE TAF SITES AFT 22/18Z. && .MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. && SON
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 340 AM EDT TUE JUN 21 2011 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-220800- 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- 340 AM EDT TUE JUN 21 2011 /240 AM CDT TUE JUN 21 2011/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ACROSS THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU AND ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40 BY LATE AFTERNOON. DUE TO TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TO RISE INTO THE LOWER TO MID 90S AND A MODERATELY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE...A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG. ANY THREATS FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER WILL BE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MPH...AND BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. AS A COLD FRONT BEGINS TO HEAD TOWARD THE REGION BY TONIGHT...THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TOWARD EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY AS THE COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY...MORE NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. OTHERWISE...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DO REMAIN IN THE FORECAST FOR JUST ABOUT EVERY DAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED BY WEDNESDAY. TT
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
838 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2011
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0830 PM TSTM WND DMG KNOXVILLE 35.97N 83.95W
06/21/2011 KNOX TN AMATEUR RADIO
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN. ONE TREE REPORTED DOWN ON HOUSE.
&&PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
900 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2011
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0845 PM TSTM WND DMG 5 SW MORRISTOWN 36.16N 83.36W
06/21/2011 HAMBLEN TN TRAINED SPOTTER
FEW TREES DOWN IN THE TALBOTT AREA.
&&PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
902 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2011
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0855 PM TSTM WND DMG RUTLEDGE 36.27N 83.52W
06/21/2011 GRAINGER TN TRAINED SPOTTER
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN.
&&PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
927 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2011
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0900 PM TSTM WND DMG MORRISTOWN 36.21N 83.30W
06/21/2011 HAMBLEN TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN.
&&PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
939 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2011
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0906 PM TSTM WND DMG GRAY 36.41N 82.48W
06/21/2011 WASHINGTON TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN.
&&PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
954 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2011
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0912 PM TSTM WND DMG COLONIAL HEIGHTS 36.48N 82.51W
06/21/2011 SULLIVAN TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
SEVERAL TREES DOWN.
0920 PM TSTM WND DMG BLOUNTVILLE 36.53N 82.33W
06/21/2011 SULLIVAN TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
SEVERAL TREES DOWN.
&&The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 106 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:59 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement personnel reported several trees downed by thunderstorm wind in Wise.
Law enforcement personnel reported several trees downed by thunderstorm wind in Pound.
Law enforcement personnel reported one tree downed by thunderstorm wind in Nickelsville.
Law enforcement personnel reported 1 tree and several large limbs downed by thunderstorm wind in Castlewood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Virginia in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Virginia, 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: 316091, 316093, 321809, 316096.