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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 384, NWS Morristown, TN

August 4, 2006Knox County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2006, 3:15 PM EDT for Knox County, Tennessee. It was in force for 20 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 4, 2006, 3:15 PM EDT (19:15 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2006, 3:35 PM EDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Knox County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Aug 4, 2:16 PM EDT, 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 2:16 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 11:20 AM EDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 4, 10:03 AM EDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
1003 AM EDT FRI AUG 04 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0350 PM     TSTM WND DMG     ABINGDON                36.71N 81.97W
08/03/2006                   WASHINGTON         VA   UTILITY COMPANY

            TREES DOWN ON POWER LINES ON MOCK KNOB ROAD IN ABINGDON.
            REPORTED BY BRISTOL POWER.

0415 PM     TSTM WND DMG     KYLES FORD              36.57N 83.04W
08/03/2006                   HANCOCK            TN   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN REPORTED BY SHERIFFS OFFICE.

0615 PM     TSTM WND DMG     5 NNE BRISTOL VA        36.68N 82.13W
08/03/2006                   WASHINGTON         VA   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            ONE TREE DOWN ON PINE HILL ROAD. REPORTED BY DISPATCH.

0620 PM     TSTM WND DMG     ABINGDON                36.71N 81.97W
08/03/2006                   WASHINGTON         VA   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            ONE TREE DOWN ON SPRING CREEK ROAD IN ABINGDON. REPORTED
            BY DISPATCH.

0630 PM     TSTM WND DMG     BRISTOL VA              36.61N 82.17W
08/03/2006                   CITY OF BRISTOL    VA   UTILITY COMPANY

            NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN EAST BRISTOL NEAR OLD
            JONESBORO ROAD. REPORTED BY BRISTOL POWER.

&&

MEP

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 2:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 1:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Morgan	49 min
Aug 4, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson	35 min
Aug 4, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Knox	60 min
Aug 4, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Morgan	47 min
Aug 4, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Roane	42 min
Aug 4, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Sullivan	23 min
Aug 4, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Blount	66 min
Aug 4, 3:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Knox	114 min
Aug 4, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Grainger, Jefferson	53 min
Aug 4, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Sevier	66 min
Aug 4, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Loudon, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Roane	66 min
Aug 4, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Washington	42 min
Aug 4, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Sequatchie	31 min
Aug 4, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hamilton	65 min
Aug 4, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bledsoe	41 min
Aug 4, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bradley	44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.