Isolated severe thunderstorms developed across southwest North Carolina during the early evening hours. The storm reports were for damaging winds.
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The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.
Isolated severe thunderstorms developed across southwest North Carolina during the early evening hours. The storm reports were for damaging winds.
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 Aug 3, 2:14 PM EST, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 314 PM EDT FRI AUG 3 2007 .SHORT TERM...(TONIGHT AND SATURDAY)...A LARGE RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT...CURRENTLY CENTERED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS WILL SLOWLY BUILD EAST INTO THE AREA. END RESULT WILL BE SLOWLY INCREASING THICKNESS AND HEIGHTS WITH HOT CONDITIONS ANTICIPATED OVER THE WEEKEND PRODUCING AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES BETWEEN 95 AND 105 DEGREES. TYPICAL SUMMER-TIME MOISTURE WILL COMBINED WITH AFTERNOON HEATING TO PRODUCE ISOLATED-WIDELY SCATTERED CONVECTION...MAINLY OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN. .LONG TERM...(SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY)...NOT MUCH CHANGE SINCE YESTERDAYS LONG RANGE FORECAST. UPPER LEVEL RIDGE CENTERED OVER SOUTHERN PLAINS MOVES SLOWLY EAST TO THE LOWER MS VALLEY MONDAY TO THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AND SOUTHEAST TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY WITH SOME RETROGRADING TO THE WEST POSSIBLE FRIDAY. A WEAK FRONT IN THE OHIO VALLEY MOVING EAST WILL SEND AN IMPULSE SOUTHEAST AROUND THE PERIPHERY OF THE RIDGE WHICH SHOULD AFFECT THE FORECAST AREA SUNDAY. BEST CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST HALF. AS THE RIDGE MOVES OVERHEAD MONDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MORE ISOLATED AND MAY ONLY OCCUR OVER THE MOUNTAINS. WILL KEEP 20 PERCENT IN ALL AREAS FOR NOW BUT LATER SHIFTS MAY WANT TO TAKE POPS OUT OF THE VALLEYS. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL STAY IN THE LOWER TO MID 90S WITH PERSISTENCE THE BEST FORECAST. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... CHATTANOOGA AIRPORT, TN 71 96 71 93 73 / 20 10 10 20 20 KNOXVILLE AIRPORT, TN 67 93 69 92 73 / 20 10 10 20 20 OAK RIDGE, TN 65 94 70 92 72 / 20 10 10 20 20 TRI CITIES AIRPORT, TN 63 91 65 91 67 / 20 10 10 30 20 && .MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. && DH/TD
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 900 AM EDT FRI AUG 3 2007 UPDATED TO INCLUDE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-040945- 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- 900 AM EDT FRI AUG 3 2007 /800 AM CDT FRI AUG 3 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ...A RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... PLENTY OF DAYTIME HEATING AND MOISTURE WILL ONCE AGAIN PRODUCE VERY UNSTABLE UNSTABLE CONDITIONS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS TODAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS BY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON THEN SPREAD INTO THE VALLEYS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH THE MAIN CONCERN BEING DAMAGING DOWNBURSTS WINDS...HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE...AND LOCALIZED TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS EAST TENNESSEE...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...AND SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. DH
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 559 PM EDT FRI AUG 3 2007 NCZ061-032245- CLAY- 559 PM EDT FRI AUG 3 2007 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS AFFECTING CLAY COUNTY... AT 556 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR HAYESVILLE. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY ...OR DRIFTING VERY SLOWLY SOUTH INTO NORTHEAST GEORGIA. HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE...AND WINDS GUSTING TO AROUND 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. IN ADDITION TO SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES PRIMARY KILLERS. REMEMBER... IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. TG
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
605 PM EDT FRI AUG 03 2007
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0400 PM TSTM WND DMG CLINCHPORT 36.68N 82.75W
08/03/2007 SCOTT VA LAW ENFORCEMENT
FEW TREES DOWN IN CLINCHPORT. REPORTED BY DISPATCH.
0440 PM TSTM WND DMG DAYTON 35.49N 85.01W
08/03/2007 RHEA TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
FEW TREES DOWN IN DAYTON. REPORTED BY DISPATCH.
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GRCThe Knoxville radar (KMRX), 130 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:13 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The North Carolina Department of Transportation reported several trees downed by thunderstorm winds near Hayesville.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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