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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Morristown, TN

July 3, 2005Bradley County, McMinn County, Meigs County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2005, 2:50 PM EDT for Bradley County, McMinn County, Meigs County, Tennessee. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 3, 2005, 2:50 PM EDT (18:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2005, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bradley County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 186 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 455 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1206 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, 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 this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 3, 8:15 AM EDT, 6 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 8:15 AM EDT, 6 hours 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 4:05 AM EDT, 10 hours 45 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
405 AM EDT SUN JUL 3 2005

NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-005-
006-008-040830-
ANDERSON-BLEDSOE-BLOUNT SMOKY MTN-BRADLEY-CAMPBELL-CHEROKEE-
CLAIBORNE-CLAY-COCKE SMOKY MTN-EAST POLK-GRAINGER-HAMBLEN-HAMILTON-
HANCOCK-HAWKINS-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-KNOX-LEE-LOUDON-MARION-MCMINN-
MEIGS-MORGAN-NORTH SEVIER-NORTHWEST CARTER-NORTHWEST COCKE-
NORTHWEST GREENE-NORTHWEST MONROE-NW BLOUNT-RHEA-ROANE-RUSSELL-
SCOTT TN-SCOTT VA-SEQUATCHIE-SEVIER SMOKY MTN-SOUTHEAST CARTER-
SOUTHEAST GREENE-SOUTHEAST MONROE-SULLIVAN-UNICOI-UNION-
WASHINGTON TN-WASHINGTON VA-WEST POLK-WISE-
405 AM EDT (305 AM CDT) SUN JUL 3 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST TENNESSEE...SOUTHWESTERN
VIRGINIA AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE (TODAY AND TONIGHT)...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

HOWEVER...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP
ACROSS THE AREA AGAIN TODAY...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...DUE
TO THE APPROACH OF A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND DAYTIME
HEATING.  A FEW STORMS MIGHT REACH STRONG TO SEVERE LEVELS...BUT
MOST STORMS SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS.  THE STRONGEST STORMS
COULD PRODUCE BRIEF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS
POSSIBLY UP TO 45 MPH.  REMEMBER...THAT ALL THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE
DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN (MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY)...

A TYPICAL SUMMERTIME PATTERN IS EXPECTED WITH DAYTIME HEATING AND
WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES COMBINING...TO PRODUCE ISOLATED TO
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY.  THE GREATEST
COVERAGE SHOULD BE PRIMARILY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...ALTHOUGH A FEW STRONG
TO MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS COULD DEVELOP.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS UNLIKELY AT THIS TIME.

PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MRX.

TG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bradley	51 min
Jul 3, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	McMinn, Polk	57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.