A boundary across east Tennessee triggered isolated severe thunderstorms during the afternoon. Storm reports contained hail and damaging thunderstorm winds.
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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 across east Tennessee triggered isolated severe thunderstorms during the afternoon. Storm reports contained hail and damaging thunderstorm 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 Jun 8, 12:52 PM EST, 58 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 152 PM EDT MON JUN 8 2009 .AVIATION...A WEAK SHORTWAVE WILL PASS THROUGH THE AREA BRINGING CLOUDS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA. BUT VFR CONDITIONS SHOULD PREVAIL THROUGH THE TAF PERIOD. TRI MAY EXPERIENCE MVFR VISIBILITY BRIEFLY IN THE MORNING HOURS DUE TO FOG...BUT SHOULD STAY VFR FOR MOST OF THE TAF PERIOD. MAY SEE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON...BUT HIGHEST CHANCES WILL BE THE MOUNTAINS. WILL CARRY JUST A CB REMARK FOR NOW. && .MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 303 AM EDT MON JUN 8 2009 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-090715- 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- 303 AM EDT MON JUN 8 2009 /203 AM CDT MON JUN 8 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WILL SLOWLY INCREASE EARLY THIS WEEK WITH A COLD FRONT MOVING INTO REGION FOR THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR MID TO LATE WEEK WITH THE MAIN CONCERN BEING DAMAGING DOWNBURSTS WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. DH
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 80 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:47 UTC.
1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement officials reported penny-size hail fell on Interstate 75 southwest of Jellico.
Highway department officials reported one tree downed by thunderstorm winds on Highway 25W in La Follette.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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