A boundary across southwest Virginia triggered isolated severe thunderstorms during the evening hours. Storm reports contained hail and damaging thunderstorm winds.
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The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.
A boundary across southwest Virginia triggered isolated severe thunderstorms during the evening hours. 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 9, 2:28 PM EST, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 328 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY)...A WEAK SHORTWAVE WILL PASS THROUGH THE AREA BRINGING SCATTERED TO ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA THIS EVENING...MAINLY ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS. A DEEPER SHORTWAVE IS EXPECTED ON WEDNESDAY BRINGING AN INCREASE IN MOISTURE...SHOULD BRING BETTER CHANCES THAN TODAY. THE HIGHEST CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL STILL BE IN THE MOUNTAINS. TEMPERATURES WILL STAYED ABOVE NORMAL ON WEDNESDAY...STAYED NEAR GUIDANCE NUMBERS FOR TEMPERATURES. .LONG TERM (WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY)...LONG TERM FORECAST HAS NOT CHANGED MUCH SINCE PREVIOUS RUN WITH THE EXCEPTION THAT THIS AREA IS OUTLOOKED FOR A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. POPS APPEAR TO BE ON THE WANE AS THE MODELS HAVE SOMEWHAT BACKED OFF IN THEIR ENTHUSIASM FOR DEEP MOISTER, INSTABILITY, AND MID LEVEL UVV. STILL, IT IS WARM OUT (MARGINALLY UNSTABLE) AND THERE IS ENOUGH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE TO CREATE MOIST CONVECTION. THE TRIGGER IN THIS CASE WILL LIKELY COME IN THE FORM OF THE SLOW MOVING WEAK FRONT WHICH IS STILL FORECAST TO CROSS THE AREA ON THURSDAY INTO EARLY FRIDAY. TROUBLE IS, THIS FRONT APPEARS VERY DIFFUSE IN THE MODELS AND IS MORE OF A BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE THAN A SHARP TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE. THAT SAID, THERE ARE NO DOUBT LEFTOVER SURFACE BOUNDARIES FROM YESTERDAYS THUNDERSTORMS AND THERE WILL BE MORE TOMORROW TO INTERACT WITH THAT BROAD AREA OF WEAK CONVERGENCE. HAVE KEPT POPS MUCH AS THEY WERE, EXCEPT THAT HAVE INCREASED THEM TO LIKELY LEVELS IN THE NORTHEAST AND ALONG THE NORTHERN PLATEAU AND MOUNTAINS THURSDAY AND ONLY IN THE EXTREME NORTHEAST THURSDAY NIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY. LEFT TEMPS ALONE FOR THE MOST PART. HATE HAVING POPS AND SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WORDING IN VIRTUALLY EVERY PERIOD AD NAUSEUM BUT SO IT IS WITH WARM TEMPS, ADEQUATE RH, SLOW MOVING FRONTS AND MARGINAL MIDUPPER SUPPORT ALL WEEK. WOULD JUST FLIP FLOP EVERY DAY, OTHERWISE. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... CHATTANOOGA AIRPORT, TN 67 90 69 90 68 / 10 30 20 40 30 KNOXVILLE MCGHEE TYSON AIRPORT, TN 65 88 68 89 67 / 10 30 20 40 30 OAK RIDGE, TN 65 88 69 89 67 / 10 30 30 50 30 TRI CITIES AIRPORT, TN 61 86 65 86 64 / 20 40 30 60 40 && .MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. && GH/BB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 421 AM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-100830- 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- 421 AM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009 /321 AM CDT TUE JUN 9 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. HOWEVER...ISOLATED STRONG STORMS COULD DEVELOP IN THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...AND BRIEFLY REACH MINIMAL SEVERE LEVELS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL COULD OCCUR WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WILL SLOWLY INCREASE FROM MID WEEK...WITH A WEAK COLD FRONT MOVING INTO THE REGION FOR THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE JUST ABOUT EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH THE BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS COMING ON THURSDAY. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING DOWN BURSTS WINDS OF 50 MPH OR HIGHER...AND LARGE HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED...MAINLY WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. TG
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 142 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:03 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement officials reported a few trees downed by thunderstorm winds near Abingdon.
The fire department officials reported nickle-size hail fell at the Castlewood Fire Station.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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