A few storms developed in a weakly to moderately unstable air mass across the Southern Appalachians. The storms produced limited wind damage and some localized flooding in a couple spots.
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The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.
A few storms developed in a weakly to moderately unstable air mass across the Southern Appalachians. The storms produced limited wind damage and some localized flooding in a couple spots.
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 22, 1:31 PM EST, 4 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 231 PM EDT MON JUN 22 2015 .AVIATION... FOR THE 18Z TAFS...BIGGEST CONCERN WILL BE CHANCE FOR ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON AT TRI...AND TO A LESSER EXTENT TYS. CURRENTLY THINK DEVELOPMENT WILL MISS THE AIRPORTS, BUT WILL UPDATE IF NECESSARY. ANOTHER ROUND OF FOG LOOKS LIKELY TONIGHT AT TRI DUE TO INCREASED HUMIDITY. OTHERWISE VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED. && .MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. && ABM
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 412 AM EDT MON JUN 22 2015 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-230815- 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- 412 AM EDT MON JUN 22 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...WITH GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS UP TO 1 INCH PER HOUR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... TEMPERATURES WILL SLOWLY CLIMB THROUGH THE BEGINNING OF THE WORK WEEK...AND HEAT INDICES WILL BE AT OR NEAR THE TRIPLE DIGITS THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. TG/JW
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
1248 PM EDT MON JUN 22 2015
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0500 PM TSTM WND DMG COEBURN 36.95N 82.47W
06/21/2015 WISE VA 911 CALL CENTER
TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.
0530 PM HAIL JASPER 36.77N 82.82W
06/21/2015 E0.50 INCH LEE VA TRAINED SPOTTER
0540 PM HAIL 4 WSW TAZEWELL 36.44N 83.64W
06/21/2015 E0.75 INCH CLAIBORNE TN BROADCAST MEDIA
0605 PM HAIL 3 W GATE CITY 36.64N 82.64W
06/21/2015 M1.00 INCH SCOTT VA TRAINED SPOTTER
0740 PM TSTM WND DMG MASCOT 36.07N 83.77W
06/21/2015 KNOX TN 911 CALL CENTER
TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN OVER NORTHERN PART OF COUNTY
0740 PM TSTM WND DMG PAULETTE 36.19N 83.89W
06/21/2015 UNION TN 911 CALL CENTER
SEVERAL TREES DOWN ACROSS UNION CO...ESPECIALLY AROUND
THE PAULETTE AREA
0842 PM TSTM WND DMG RUTLEDGE 36.27N 83.52W
06/21/2015 GRAINGER TN 911 CALL CENTER
SEVERAL TREES DOWN ACROSS GRAINGER COUNTY
&&The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 50 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:35 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A few trees and power lines were reported down in Harrogate.
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