An isolated storm developed over Southwest Virginia in an unstable environment ahead of an outflow boundary from thunderstorms which formed along a cold front in the Ohio Valley earlier in the day.
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An isolated storm developed over Southwest Virginia in an unstable environment ahead of an outflow boundary from thunderstorms which formed along a cold front in the Ohio Valley earlier in the 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 2, 2:41 PM EST, 49 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Morristown TN 341 PM EDT Sun Jun 2 2019 .SHORT TERM (Tonight and Monday)...The cu is starting to pop across the Southern Appalachian region in the mid afternoon heat. Scattered showers and thunderstorms will form across Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee through early evening ahead of a cool front. Development should be more widely scattered to isolated across much of the remainder of the forecast area. There is enough cape and shear for the possibility of some of the storms to associated with a strong wind gust and some small hail. The cool front will move south of the region later tonight, ushering in drier air for a most pleasant day Monday. Sunshine will dominate on Monday and dewpoint temperatures will be quite a few degrees lower than the past several days and while high temperatures will only be about five degrees cooler, the lower humidity will be welcome. .LONG TERM (Monday night through Sunday)...Not a whole lot of change during the long term period. The only real change is the GFS and ECMWF are in pretty good agreement overall with the weekend low pressure system considering how far out that is. Monday night will be pleasant as we are in dry northwest flow behind the frontal passage. Clear skies and low temperatures in the upper 40s to mid 50s can be expected. We lose our northwest flow on Tuesday as high pressure builds back in. Temperatures and dewpoints begin to climb with the southwesterly flow that develops. Highs climb back into the low to mid 80s. Southwesterly flow transitions to strengthening westerly flow Tuesday night into Wednesday as we are sandwiched in between the high to our south and a shortwave trough passing through the Ohio River Valley. This wave will bring increasing POP chances across our area through the day on Wednesday. This wave exits to our northeast Wednesday night into Thursday. We are in between systems on Thursday but the developing low to our west will allow for a diffluent and diverging pattern across our area. This combined with increasing moisture from out of the southwest should be enough to produce some scattered showers and storms through the day. Friday through Sunday the low slowly moves across our area as it is cut off from the upper level jet. During this time there will be on and off rounds of showers and storms. There will also be quite a bit of cloud cover around and temps will hold steady with highs in the low to mid 80s Thursday through Sunday. Overnight lows still look mild with temps in the mid to upper 60s. && .POINT TEMPS/POPS... Chattanooga Airport, TN 64 84 57 86 / 10 0 0 0 Knoxville McGhee Tyson Airport, TN 62 80 54 84 / 20 0 0 0 Oak Ridge, TN 61 81 55 84 / 20 0 0 0 Tri Cities Airport, TN 57 76 46 80 / 40 0 0 0 && .MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...None. TN...None. VA...None. &&
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Morristown TN 258 AM EDT Sun Jun 2 2019 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-030700- Cherokee-Clay-Scott-Campbell-Claiborne-Hancock-Hawkins-Sullivan- Johnson-Morgan-Anderson-Union-Grainger-Hamblen-Northwest Cocke- Cocke Smoky Mountains-Northwest Greene-Southeast Greene- Washington-Unicoi-Northwest Carter-Southeast Carter-Roane-Loudon- Knox-Jefferson-Northwest 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-Russell- 258 AM EDT Sun Jun 2 2019 /158 AM CDT Sun Jun 2 2019/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of southwest North Carolina...east Tennessee and southwest Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight ...Strong to Possibly Severe Thunderstorms from mid-Afternoon through early Evening... A frontal boundary will move across the area late this afternoon and evening producing scattered thunderstorms. Some of these storms will be strong to possibly severe with the main concern being hail up to quarter size and gusty winds up to 55 mph. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday No hazardous weather expected. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed.
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Morristown TN
418 PM EDT Sun Jun 2 2019
VAZ006-008-022100-
Washington VA-Russell VA-
418 PM EDT Sun Jun 2 2019
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL RUSSELL AND NORTHEASTERN
WASHINGTON COUNTIES UNTIL 500 PM EDT...
At 417 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Cleveland Va, or near Lebanon, moving east at 25 mph.
Penny size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with
this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Lebanon, Cleveland Va, Glade Spring, Honaker and Rosedale.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
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LAT...LON 3686 8220 3704 8218 3704 8181 3696 8178
3695 8182 3693 8184 3678 8170
TIME...MOT...LOC 2017Z 275DEG 23KT 3695 8210
TDThe Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 136 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:28 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several small trees were reported down due to convective gusts and some small hail was reported.
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