A hot and humid airmass across the area help to trigger isolated severe thunderstorms during the evening hours.
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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 hot and humid airmass across the area help to trigger isolated severe thunderstorms during the evening hours.
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 21, 6:48 PM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 1141 AM EDT MON JUN 21 2010 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-221530- 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- 1141 AM EDT MON JUN 21 2010 /1041 AM CDT MON JUN 21 2010/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT DAYTIME HEATING TODAY WILL ALLOW WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. A FEW ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGING WINDS...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF THE EXPECTED SEVERE THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A TYPICAL SUMMERTIME PATTERN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE REGION...WITH A FEW ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE EACH DAY. THE MAIN THREATS THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGING WINDS...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. TD
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 610 PM EDT MON JUN 21 2010 VAZ006-008-212300- RUSSELL VA-WASHINGTON VA- 610 PM EDT MON JUN 21 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR RUSSELL AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES OF SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA AND THE CITY OF BRISTOL VIRGINIA UNTIL 700 PM EDT... AT 604 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLEVELAND...OR 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF BRISTOL VA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...LEBANON...BRISTOL VA...ABINGDON...HANSONVILLE...BENHAMS...ROSEDALE...HILANDER PARK... HOLSTON...LINDELL...EMORY-MEADOW VIEW...DAMASCUS...GLADE SPRING AND KONNAROCK. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. TG
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</html>The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 137 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:00 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement personnel reported 1 tree downed by thunderstorm winds southwest of Hayesville on Highway 175 near the Georgia border.
The utility company personnel reported several trees and powerlines downed by thunderstorm winds in Hayesville.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, June 2010
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 230669, 230673.