Author: Meteorologist Mark

Issued Aug 1, 2026

Folks, this line is looking much better and is having trouble navigating the plateau. That is good news.

I don’t foresee having any more issues with severe weather today. This line will continue moving across the plateau and should continue this slow weakening trend.

This should be my last update for the evening. You all take care.

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Issued Aug 1, 2026

The severe storm moving through northern Fentress County will stay north of Jamestown, but not by much. It is moving northeast toward Kentucky. You folks in extreme northern Fentress (ie Alvin C York area) and eastern Pickett will be impacted by this storm. It doesn’t have rotation but sometimes that doesn’t show up until after a tornado has occurred.

The warning remains until 8:45.

The rest of us have a strong line of storms to contend with. Thankfully, this is a line and not the isolated cells we had earlier. Lines are much less prone to producing any tornadic activity. These storms are not listed as severe but radar indicates that they contain heavy rain, lightning, and gusty winds.

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Issued Aug 1, 2026 at 7:15 pm

We have a line of strong storms that has developed to our west. We need to be weather aware for the next hour or so…until this line moves through. We still have no watches but we have had the brief confirmed tornado that occurred in Vandever in southern Cumberland County earlier. It came with no warning whatsover.

I would treat this warning the same as a tornado warning, as they can occur with little or no warning.

The warning can be seen shaded in orange below.

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Issued Aug 1, 2026 at 7:15 pm

Well, the storm that moved through southern Cumberland County produced a brief spin-up at Grapevine Road. There were some trees down and some sheds destroyed but nothing major. There was no warning for a severe storm or tornado and radar never showed sigfnificant rotation. This is the kind of stuff that we have to be watchful for on days like today. The threat is low, but not zero. It appears this was a brief spin up and that storm has now weakened significantly. There’s video proof of the tornado that I’m getting now.

Our main threat should be about over but we’ll be weahter aware for the next hour or so, just to be safe. I’ll have more on all of this later.

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