Thunderstorm Wind, Wise
- When
- June 21, 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Wise County, Bondtown
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- State Official
- Coordinates
- 36.950, -82.470
Several trees and a few power lines were reported down in Coeburn.
Hail and Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 21, 2015
A moderately unstable atmosphere developed across the region during the afternoon. Severe convection resulting in wind damage with limited hail production occurred just ahead of an outflow boundary that formed across the Ohio Valley earlier in the day.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.
A moderately unstable atmosphere developed across the region during the afternoon. Severe convection resulting in wind damage with limited hail production occurred just ahead of an outflow boundary that formed across the Ohio Valley earlier in the day.
What forecasters said that day
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, 2:23 PM EST, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 2:23 PM EST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 323 PM EDT SUN JUN 21 2015 .SHORT TERM...(TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY)...SKIES ARE PARTLY TO MOSTLY SUNNY AT MID AFTERNOON WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER 90S AT LOWER ELEVATIONS. SOME CUMULUS HAS FORMED BUT TO THE NORTH IN EASTERN KY AND SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP AND SLOWLY MOVE EAST. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO SINK SLOWLY SOUTH AND MOVE INTO NORTHEAST AREAS IN A FEW HOURS AND BECOME STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE WITH HIGH WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. HAIL TO QUARTER SIZED AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ALSO COULD OCCUR. CLOUDS WILL INCREASE INTO THIS EVENING FROM THE NORTH AND THEN SLOWLY DECREASE LATE. EXPECT LOWS TO STAY MILD UPPER 60S NORTHEAST TO LOWER 70S CENTRAL AND SOUTH. HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS CONTINUE MONDAY AS UPPER RIDGE REMAINS OVER FORECAST AREA. THE EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE AREA WILL BE ON THE EDGE OF THE RIDGE WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF STORMS CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST AND A LITTLE HIGHER CHANCE IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS. HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL ONCE AGAIN APPROACH 100. .LONG TERM...(MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY)... HOT AND DRY WEATHER WILL CONTINUE MONDAY INTO TUESDAY AS RIDGING CONTINUES TO BUILD TO THE WEST OF THE AREA. STILL EXPECTING TEMPERATURES TO REACH INTO THE 90'S THROUGH WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY FOR MUCH OF THE AREA...AND THIS WILL LEAD TO UPPER 90'S TO NEAR TRIPLE DIGIT HEAT INDEX VALUES IN THE AFTERNOON ON THESE DAYS. THEN, AS A LOW MOVES ACROSS SOUTHERN CANADA, IT WILL DRAG BEHIND IT A FRONTAL BOUNDARY THAT WILL STALL SOMEWHERE IN THE VICINITY OF THE FORECAST AREA. EXACT LOCATION OF THE STALLED BOUNDARY IS DIFFICULT TO ASCERTAIN AT THIS POINT, BUT CURRENTLY BELIEVE IT WILL BE AROUND KENTUCKY. WHEREVER THIS BOUNDARY SETS UP, ALONG AND NORTH OF IT, SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE A PRETTY GOOD CHANCE TO FORM. SO GENERALLY HAVE HIGHER CHANCE FOR PRECIPITATION IN THE NORTHERN AREAS INTO SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. THEN SOME SHORTWAVES AND SURFACE LOWS MOVE ACROSS NORTH OF THE AREA, THAT WILL BRING IN SOME MORE CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION. CURRENTLY ONE OF THE BEST LOOKING FEATURES TO FOCUS SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY COME OVER THE WEEKEND AS A LOW TRACKS ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES AND HELPS INTRODUCE A LARGE AMOUNT OF MOISTURE OVER THE AREA. AGAIN, CONFIDENCE IN MODELS IS RELATIVELY LOW AT THIS TIME DUE TO RUN-TO- RUN INCONSISTENCIES. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... CHATTANOOGA AIRPORT, TN 72 95 74 98 / 10 10 0 10 KNOXVILLE MCGHEE TYSON AIRPORT, TN 72 94 72 96 / 20 20 10 10 OAK RIDGE, TN 71 94 73 97 / 20 10 10 10 TRI CITIES AIRPORT, TN 68 91 68 93 / 30 20 20 20 && .MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. && TD/ABM
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 12:08 PM EST, 3 hours 52 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 108 PM EDT SUN JUN 21 2015 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-221700- 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- 108 PM EDT SUN JUN 21 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE OHIO VALLEY REGION WILL BE MOVING EAST OR SOUTHEAST TODAY. THESE STORMS MAY MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...AND AS FAR SOUTH AS NORTHERN TENNESSEE NORTH OF INTERSTATE 40. ISOLATED STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...MAINLY DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. HAIL OF DIME TO QUARTER SIZE...AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 60 MPH COULD OCCUR WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. ELSEWHERE...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP LATE IN THE DAY...BUT ARE NOT LIKELY TO REACH STRONG TO SEVERE LEVELS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... TEMPERATURES WILL SLOWLY CLIMB THROUGH THE WORK WEEK...AND HEAT INDICES WILL BE AT OR NEAR THE TRIPLE DIGITS EACH DAY THROUGH THE EXTENDED. NOT ONLY IS THE HEAT INDEX GOING TO BE HIGH...BUT THE TRIPLE DIGIT INDICES OCCUR FOR 2 TO 3 DAYS STRAIGHT. THIS COULD PROVE DANGEROUS FOR PEOPLE AND PETS OUTDOORS OR WITH INSUFFICIENT COOLING. HEAT SAFETY MEASURES MAY NEED TO BE TAKEN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. TD
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 103 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:58 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Scott
- When
- June 21, 5:05 PM EST
- Where
- Scott County, 0.89 mi NW of Melvin
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 36.640, -82.640
Quarter sized hail was reported three miles west of Gate City.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in Oklahoma, June 21, 2015
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2015
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- Tornado and Hail in Montana, June 21, 2015
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, June 21, 2015
- Hail in Kansas, June 21, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, June 21, 2015
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 21, 2015
More
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Sources
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 573085, 573083.