Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 322, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2006, 3:46 PM EDT for Cherokee County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 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 13, 2006, 3:46 PM EDT (19:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2006, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cherokee County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 1000 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 914 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 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 Jul 13, 1:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 1:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 510 AM EDT THU JUL 13 2006 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-005- 006-008-141000- 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- 510 AM EDT (410 AM CDT) THU JUL 13 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST TENNESSEE...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A WEAK FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION TODAY...BRINGING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A TYPICAL SUMMERTIME PATTERN WILL BE IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE PERIOD...WITH ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. A FEW STORMS MAY INTENSIFY TO SEVERE LEVELS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS...BRINGING THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED OVERALL...BUT MAY BE NEEDED FOR ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS A FEW TIMES THROUGH THE REST OF THIS WEEK AND INTO TUESDAY. GH
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 1:19 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 334 PM EDT THU JUL 13 2006 TNZ017-018-046-047-VAZ008-132030- JOHNSON-NORTHWEST CARTER-SOUTHEAST CARTER-SULLIVAN-WASHINGTON- 334 PM EDT THU JUL 13 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE AFFECTING CARTER...JOHNSON...SULLIVAN COUNTIES IN TENNESSEE AND WASHINGTON COUNTY VIRGINIA... AT 330 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES WEST OF QUARRY TO BULADEAN....MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. WINDS 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS...IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH PER HOUR...MAY OCCUR WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...AND POSSIBLE MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. TURN AROUND DONT DROWN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. HW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 12:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Meigs, Rhea | 37 min |
| Jul 13, 12:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger, Union | 26 min |
| Jul 13, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton | 38 min |
| Jul 13, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Union | 31 min |
Nearby
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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.