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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 266, NWS Morristown, TN

August 17, 2005Anderson County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2005, 7:25 PM EDT for Anderson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 21 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 17, 2005, 7:25 PM EDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired
Aug 17, 2005, 7:46 PM EDT
In force
21 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Anderson County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

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 17, 3:50 PM EDT, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 3:50 PM EDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 17, 8:50 AM EDT, 10 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
850 AM EDT WED AUG 17 2005

NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-005-
006-008-181100-
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-
850 AM EDT (750 AM CDT) WED AUG 17 2005

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

.DAY ONE (TODAY AND TONIGHT)...

A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT IN THE REGION WILL CAUSE SCATTERED SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH A FEW
THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLY BECOMING STRONG TO SEVERE DURING THE LATE
AFTERNOON OR EARLY EVENING. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE THE POSSIBILITY
OF STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN (THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY)...

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO
DEVELOP THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AS THE FRONT LIFTS NORTH WITH DECREASING
CHANCES THIS WEEKEND. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE THROUGH
FRIDAY WITH A THREAT OF DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING AND POSSIBLY EACH DAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

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

TD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 8:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton, Marion23 min
Aug 16, 8:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton35 min
Aug 17, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXKnox25 min
Aug 17, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBlount34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.