A boundary across the area triggered isolated severe thunderstorms during the early morning hours on the 8th. but dime-size hail was reported in Russell County.
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The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.
A boundary across the area triggered isolated severe thunderstorms during the early morning hours on the 8th. Storm reports were for damaging thunderstorm wind...but dime-size hail was reported in Russell County.
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 Apr 8, 6:20 PM EST, 32 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 720 PM EDT FRI APR 8 2011 .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED TO PREVAIL OVERNIGHT AT EACH TAF SITE AS SHORT WAVE OVER CENTRAL APPALACHIANS PULLS AWAY FROM THE REGION. ANOTHER WEAK SHORT WAVE WILL PASS THROUGH THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIN REGION TOMORROW MORNING BUT ONLY SCATTERED CONVECTION EXPECTED WITH THIS FEATURE WHICH SHOULD KEEP CONDITIONS VFR GENERALLY. && .MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. && LCM
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 344 AM EDT FRI APR 8 2011 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-090800- 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- 344 AM EDT FRI APR 8 2011 /244 AM CDT FRI APR 8 2011/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TODAY. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD REACH STRONG TO SEVERE LEVELS...WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. ISOLATED TORNADOES ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE EXPECTED SATURDAY WITH A FEW STORMS POSSIBLY REACHING STRONG TO SEVERE LEVELS...WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP AGAIN DURING THE DAY MONDAY... AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AS WELL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION COULD BE NEEDED ON THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND SATURDAY...AND POSSIBLY AGAIN MONDAY. TD
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 136 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:51 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement personnel reported a few trees downed by thunderstorm wind near Glade Spring. Penny size hail was also reported.
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