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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 228, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2005, 2:42 PM EDT for Lee County, Virginia. It was in force for 50 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
- Aug 5, 2005, 2:42 PM EDT (18:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2005, 3:32 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lee County, VA
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 297 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1463 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1227 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 5, 10:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 10:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 4:05 AM EDT, 10 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 405 AM EDT FRI AUG 5 2005 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-005- 006-008-060830- 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) FRI AUG 5 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. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE BEST CHANCES WILL BE ACROSS THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU AND IN THE MOUNTAINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN (SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY)... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL SETTLE INTO THE REGION ON SATURDAY...AND SHOULD HELP PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR MOST AREAS INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MRX. TG
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 5, 12:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
1230 PM EDT FRI AUG 05 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0250 PM TSTM WND DMG OAK RIDGE 35.96N 84.30W
08/04/2005 ANDERSON TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREE DOWN ON HWY 95 NEAR WHITE OAK DAM.
0305 PM TSTM WND DMG 4 N CLINTON 36.15N 84.13W
08/04/2005 ANDERSON TN DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
TREE DOWN NEAR PEACH ORCHARD.
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MEPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Monroe | 54 min |
| Aug 5, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 25 min |
| Aug 5, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke | 31 min |
| Aug 5, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Russell | 34 min |
| Aug 5, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 47 min |
| Aug 5, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Clay | 31 min |
| Aug 5, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Clay | 28 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2005Every 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.