Thunderstorm Wind — Carter, Tennessee

2023-08-14 · near Dennis Cove, Carter, Tennessee

Event narrative

Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted due to powerful straight line thunderstorm winds. Trees were felled in one direction along a path.

Wider weather episode

A highly anomalous weather pattern involving a closed low and a trailing cold front brought discrete thunderstorms and multicell clusters in multiple rounds to east Tennessee. Repeat events as well as training of cells resulted in flash flooding, some of it significant.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1137870. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.