An isolated thunderstorm produced strong winds, which damaged some bleachers at Riceville Youth football field in Riceville, Tennessee.
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An isolated thunderstorm produced strong winds, which damaged some bleachers at Riceville Youth football field in Riceville, Tennessee.
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 Jul 30, 2:34 PM EST, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
334 PM EDT THU JUL 30 2009
.SHORT TERM...(TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY)...MAIN PERIODS OF CONCERN
ARE TONIGHT AND FRIDAY...AS A MAIN SHORTWAVE TROUGH PUSHES SHOWERS
AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE TN VALLEY AND SOUTHERN
APPALACHIANS. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED COVERAGE LATE THIS AFTERNOON
SHOULD INCREASE TO NEAR CATEGORICAL COVERAGE LATER TONIGHT. ANY
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS...REGARDLESS OF WHERE MODELS TRACK HEAVIEST
QPF...COULD EASILY CAUSE MINOR FLOODING. CREEKS AND SMALLER STREAMS
MAY OVERFLOW...SO OPTED FOR A FLOOD WATCH STARTING THIS EVENING AND
LET IT END EARLY FRIDAY EVENING.
SHOWERS AND STORMS LOOK TO DIMINISH FRIDAY NIGHT...AND POPS MIGHT
NOT BE NEEDED AFTER MIDNIGHT...BUT I KEPT THE TAPERED POPS IN FOR
NOW. MUCH LESS TSRA FOR SATURDAY BUT SLIGHT CHANCE POPS NORTH TO
LOW CHANCE SOUTH WAS FINE FOR NOW.
FOR TEMPS...MIN TEMPS BOTH TONIGHT AND FRIDAY NIGHT LOOKED GOOD AND
DID NOT DIFFER FROM. THE WARMER MOS MAX TEMPS ON FRIDAY LOOK OUT OF
REACH TO ME...SO WENT WITH COOLER HIGHS. IF ENOUGH DRYING OCCURS
FOR SATURDAY...I CAN SEE UPPER 70S TO UPPER 80S...BUT NOT CONVINCED
CHA WILL HIT 92 DEGREES.
.LONG TERM...(SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY)...PATTERN DOESNT
REALLY CHANGE TOO MUCH FROM WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING MUCH OF THE
SUMMER WITH A MEAN LONG WAVE TROF OVER THE EASTERN THIRD OF THE
NATION. DURING THE PERIOD WENT WITH THREE POSSIBILITIES OF
PRECIPITATION WITH AS MUCH CERTAINTY AS ONE CAN REASONABLEY
ASCERTAIN IN AN EXTENDED FORECAST. THE MODELS SEEM TO CONVERGE ON A
SLIGHTLY MORE SIGNIFICANT SHORT WAVE APPEARANCE SATURDAY NIGHT INTO
SUNDAY SO USED 30 TO 40 PERCENT POPS DURING THIS PERIOD WHILE
DROPPING PROBABILITY OF PRECIP TO SLIGHT CHANCE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH
MONDAY NIGHT. THE NEXT 30 PERCENT POP WAS USED FOR TUESDAY WITH
MODELS AGAIN SHOWING SOME AGREEMENT WITH ANOTHER SHORT WAVE TROF AND
THE FINAL 30 PERCENT POP WAS APPLIED ON THURSDAY WITH PERHAPS
ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT SHORT WAVE VISIT TO THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN
REGION ALONG WITH A SLOWLY ADVANCING SYNOPTIC SCALE COLD FRONT IN
THE NEIGHBORHOOD. STAYED RELATIVELY CLOSE TO GUIDANCE TEMPS
THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
CHATTANOOGA AIRPORT, TN 72 83 70 89 70 / 80 60 30 30 30
KNOXVILLE MCGHEE TYSON AIRPORT, TN 70 82 67 88 68 / 70 70 40 30 30
OAK RIDGE, TN 70 82 65 87 68 / 70 70 30 30 30
TRI CITIES AIRPORT, TN 67 79 62 85 64 / 70 70 40 20 30
&&
.MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NC...NONE.
TN...FLOOD WATCH FROM 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY
EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: ANDERSON...BLEDSOE...
BLOUNT SMOKY MOUNTAINS...BRADLEY...CAMPBELL...CLAIBORNE...
COCKE SMOKY MOUNTAINS...EAST POLK...GRAINGER...HAMBLEN...
HAMILTON...HANCOCK...HAWKINS...JEFFERSON...JOHNSON...KNOX...
LOUDON...MARION...MCMINN...MEIGS...MORGAN...NW BLOUNT...
NORTH SEVIER...NORTHWEST CARTER...NORTHWEST COCKE...
NORTHWEST GREENE...NORTHWEST MONROE...RHEA...ROANE...SCOTT
TN...SEQUATCHIE...SEVIER SMOKY MOUNTAINS...SOUTHEAST
CARTER...SOUTHEAST GREENE...SOUTHEAST MONROE...SULLIVAN...
UNICOI...UNION...WASHINGTON TN...WEST POLK.
VA...FLOOD WATCH FROM 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING
FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: LEE...RUSSELL...SCOTT...
WASHINGTON...WISE.
&&
TGHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 455 AM EDT THU JUL 30 2009 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-310900- 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- 455 AM EDT THU JUL 30 2009 /355 AM CDT THU JUL 30 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES COMBINED WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE AHEAD OF A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY WILL PRODUCE WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE TENNESSEE VALLEY TODAY AND TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS AND TENNESSEE VALLEY FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION FRIDAY. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ANTICIPATED AHEAD OF THE FRONT FRIDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FRIDAY DUE TO HEAVY RAINFALL. TD
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 135 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:59 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong winds from an isolated thunderstorm produced damage to a few bleachers at the Riceville Youth football field in Riceville, Tennessee.
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