Isolated thunderstorms developed during the afternoon hours as boundary lingered across the region. Storm reports contained damaging thunderstorm wind.
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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.
Isolated thunderstorms developed during the afternoon hours as boundary lingered across the region. Storm reports contained damaging thunderstorm wind.
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 24, 2:07 PM EST, 13 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 307 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 2011 .SHORT TERM...(TONIGHT AND SATURDAY)...VERY SLOW MOVING FRONT OVER SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE AREA IS EXPECTED TO BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY AND LINGER NEAR OUR SOUTHERN BORDER THROUGH SATURDAY. CURRENT RADAR SHOWS CONSIDERABLE CONVECTION NEAR THIS BOUNDARY...BUT THIS SHOULD DIMINISH THIS EVENING. ANOTHER ROUND OF CONVECTION EXPECTED NEAR THE BOUNDARY AGAIN ON SATURDAY. WILL CARRY CHANCE POPS SOUTH AND SLIGHT CHANCE CENTRAL SATURDAY. WILL ONLY MAKE SOME MINOR TWEAKS TO MAV TEMPS...MOSTLY HIGHER FOR MIN TEMPS AND LOWER FOR MAX TEMPS. .LONG TERM...(SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY)...ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN EXPECTED TO SLOWLY WANE PER LATEST MODEL RUNS. APPEARS GREATEST CHANCE FOR PRECIP IN THE LONG TERM WILL OCCUR ON SUNDAY AS AN UPPER-LEVEL DISTURBANCE DRIFTS THROUGH THE AREA. HAVE CONTINUED CHANCE POPS AREA-WIDE FOR THIS TIME FRAME. UPPER RIDGE BEGINS TO BUILD INTO THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION BY EARLY NEXT WORK WEEK. THIS PATTERN SHIFT IS EXPECTED TO INHIBIT CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT BY MID WEEK AND POPS HAVE BEEN LOWERED ACCORDINGLY. HAVE REMOVED POPS COMPLETELY FOR LATTER PORTION OF THE LONG TERM. TEMPS ALSO EXPECTED TO CLIMB AS HEIGHTS RISE CORRESPONDINGLY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... CHATTANOOGA AIRPORT, TN 68 90 70 92 70 / 30 40 0 30 20 KNOXVILLE MCGHEE TYSON AIRPORT, TN 64 88 68 90 70 / 10 20 10 30 20 OAK RIDGE, TN 63 88 68 89 69 / 10 20 10 30 20 TRI CITIES AIRPORT, TN 57 85 59 89 66 / 10 10 0 30 40 && .MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. && LDW/LCM
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 530 AM EDT FRI JUN 24 2011 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-251000- 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- 530 AM EDT FRI JUN 24 2011 /430 AM CDT FRI JUN 24 2011/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL BE PRESENT ACROSS THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AS A COOL FRONT MOVES EAST ACROSS THE TENNESSEE RIVER VALLEY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM WELL AHEAD OF THIS BOUNDARY...WITH THE GREATEST COVERAGE EXPECTED GENERALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A STAGNANT BUT ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN IS EXPECTED OVER THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED EACH DAY...ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE EACH DAY THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...ALONG WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR ORGANIZED THUNDERSTORM COMPLEXES ORIGINATING FROM THE MID MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY. EACH DAY...THERE WILL BE THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED AT TIMES THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 1202 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 2011 TNZ085>087-241645- MCMINN TN-NORTHWEST MONROE TN-SOUTHEAST MONROE TN- 1202 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 2011 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MONROE AND MCMINN COUNTIES UNTIL 1245 PM EDT... AT 1158 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF ATHENS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ATHENS...ETOWAH... CLEAR WATER...ENGLEWOOD...MOUNT VERNON AND TELLICO PLAINS. IN ADDITION TO SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY! LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES PRIMARY KILLERS ASSOCIATED WITH THUNDERSTORMS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 132 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 2011 TNZ081-082-098-099-241830- BLEDSOE TN-HAMILTON TN-MARION TN-SEQUATCHIE TN- 1232 PM CDT FRI JUN 24 2011 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MARION...HAMILTON...EXTREME SOUTHERN BLEDSOE AND SEQUATCHIE COUNTIES UNTIL 130 PM CDT/230 PM EDT/... AT 1230 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR GRUETLI-LAAGER...OR 15 MILES WEST OF DUNLAP...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... GRIFFITH CREEK AROUND 1245 PM CDT. CARTWRIGHT AROUND 100 PM CDT. DUNLAP AROUND 110 PM CDT. THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. TD
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
207 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1252 PM TSTM WND DMG 5 NE TELLICO PLAINS 35.42N 84.24W
06/24/2011 MONROE TN AMATEUR RADIO
A FEW TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY SPOTTER/HAM RADIO OPERATOR.
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FERRELLSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 208 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 2011 TNZ072-085>087-241845- BLOUNT SMOKY MOUNTAINS TN-MCMINN TN-NORTHWEST MONROE TN-SOUTHEAST MONROE TN- 208 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 2011 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BLOUNT...MONROE AND MCMINN COUNTIES UNTIL 245 PM EDT... AT 206 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 6 MILES SOUTH OF MADISONVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. LOCATIONS NEAR THE STORMS INCLUDE...TELLICO PLAINS...TARIFFVILLE AND CITICO. THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. TD
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 231 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 2011 TNZ082>085-099-100-241915- BLEDSOE TN-BRADLEY TN-HAMILTON TN-MCMINN TN-MEIGS TN-RHEA TN- 231 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 2011 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MEIGS...MCMINN...HAMILTON... BRADLEY...SOUTHERN BLEDSOE AND EXTREME SOUTHERN RHEA COUNTIES UNTIL 315 PM EDT/215 PM CDT/... AT 229 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF SODDY-DAISY...OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DAYTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS NEAR HOPEWELL. HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SHADY GROVE... GRAYSVILLE...BIRCHWOOD...MCDONALD...BIG SPRING...HOPEWELL AND HILLSVIEW. TD
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
257 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0219 PM HAIL 6 NW DUNLAP 35.43N 85.46W
06/24/2011 E1.00 INCH SEQUATCHIE TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
QUARTER SIZED HAIL ON AND ALONG FREDONIA ROAD. REPORTED
BY DISPATCH.
0219 PM TSTM WND DMG 6 NW DUNLAP 35.43N 85.46W
06/24/2011 SEQUATCHIE TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
ONE TREE DOWN ACROSS FREDONIA ROAD. REPORTED BY DISPATCH.
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FERRELLThe Knoxville radar (KMRX), 129 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:21 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement personnel reported several trees downed by thunderstorm wind 3 miles east of Hayesville.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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