A boundary across east Tennessee triggered isolated thunderstorms during the early morning hours. A few storms became severe with damaging thunderstorm winds reported.
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The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.
A boundary across east Tennessee triggered isolated thunderstorms during the early morning hours. A few storms became severe with damaging thunderstorm winds reported.
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 6, 7:49 PM EST, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 849 PM EDT WED AUG 6 2008 .DISCUSSION...ISOLATED CONVECTION HAS ABOUT EXITED SWRN VA THIS EVENING...WITH MAIN AREA OF LINGERING TSRA BEING ACROSS CENTRAL AND WRN KY. LATEST RUC MODEL DOES NOT SPREAD THIS ACTIVITY MUCH BEYOND NRN THIRD OF OUR FORECAST AREA OVERNIGHT...SO WILL LIKELY KEEP LOW CHANCE POPS FOR NRN PLATEAU COUNTIES OF E TN...NE TN AND SWRN VA. SLIGHT CHANCE POPS (15 TO 24 PERCENT) ELSEWHERE LOOK SUFFICIENT. MIN TEMP FORECAST LOOKS ON TRACK. WILL FRESHEN HOURLY GRIDS AS NEEDED AROUND 02Z...BUT AN UPDATE TO ZFPMRX AND WEB PRODUCTS MAY NOT BE NECESSARY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... CHATTANOOGA AIRPORT, TN 72 89 68 87 63 / 20 60 40 10 10 KNOXVILLE MCGHEE TYSON AIRPORT, TN 71 86 65 85 62 / 20 50 30 10 10 OAK RIDGE, TN 70 88 65 87 61 / 20 50 30 10 10 TRI CITIES AIRPORT, TN 66 83 59 83 56 / 30 40 30 10 10 && .MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. && TG
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 352 AM EDT WED AUG 6 2008 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-070800- 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- 352 AM EDT WED AUG 6 2008 /252 AM CDT WED AUG 6 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREAT. THE STORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN ON THURSDAY AS A FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WITH DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREAT. THE STORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND THURSDAY.
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:57 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Dispatch reported a few trees downed by thunderstorm winds in the Robbins area near Huntsville.
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