A boundary over the region trigger thunderstorms on during the morning hours. A few of storms produced damaging thunderstorm wind and downing trees.
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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 over the region trigger thunderstorms on during the morning hours. A few of storms produced damaging thunderstorm wind and downing trees.
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 Feb 19, 1:00 AM EST, 2 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 100 AM EST WED FEB 19 2014 .AVIATION... SCT -SHRA/TSRA WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE REGION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT AND INTO THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY AS A COLD FRONT SWEEPS THROUGH THE REGION. SOME LOCALIZED MVFR TO IFR CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE UNDER THE HEAVIEST ACTIVITY...BUT FOR THE MOST PART...VFR CONDITIONS WILL BE THE RULE BY THE AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTH AND WEST LATE IN THE DAY AS THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH. && .MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. && AMP
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 317 PM EST TUE FEB 18 2014 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-192030- 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- 317 PM EST TUE FEB 18 2014 /217 PM CST TUE FEB 18 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... A DEEPENING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE OHIO VALLEY ON THURSDAY WILL DRAG A COLD FRONT INTO THE TENNESSEE VALLEY THURSDAY NIGHT...AND BRING THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME STRONG TO PERHAPS LOCALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. GIVEN THE STRONG WIND FIELD ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM SYSTEM...DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. IN ADDITION...WINDY CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED THURSDAY NIGHT ESPECIALLY OVER THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS AS THE PRESSURE GRADIENT TIGHTENS AHEAD OF THE FRONT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THURSDAY NIGHT.
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:01 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Highway department reported 150+ trees downed by thunderstorm wind.
The public reported trees were downed by thunderstorm wind on Hicks Road in Jefferson City.
Law enforcement personnel reported trees and powerlines were downed by thunderstorm wind on Branner Avenue in Jefferson City.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, February 2014
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: 500452, 498670, 498671.