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Snow Advisory 8, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this snow advisory at Feb 17, 2006, 3:30 PM EST for 10 counties in Tennessee. It took effect at Feb 18, 2006, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 17, 2006, 3:30 PM EST (20:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 18, 2006, 4:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2006, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
Counties Campbell County, TN, Carter County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Washington County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 306 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1066 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 377 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this snow advisory 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 snow advisory went out at Feb 17, 12:26 PM EST, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 12:26 PM EST, 3 hours 4 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 17, 5:10 AM EST, 10 hours 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 510 AM EST FRI FEB 17 2006 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- 510 AM EST (410 AM CST) FRI FEB 17 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST TENNESSEE...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A LIGHT MIXTURE OF SNOW AND SLEET IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA ON SATURDAY...WITH ONE TO THREE INCHES OF SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS POSSIBLE ACROSS MAINLY THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS ABOVE 2500 FEET AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SNOW SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED FOR ACCUMULATION REPORTS ON SATURDAY... MAINLY ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS. DMG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 17, 12:50 PM EST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 12:00 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | MRX | Blount, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Greene and 9 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:30 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | MRX | Carter, Greene, Johnson, Unicoi | 25 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:30 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | MRX | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Cocke, Grainger and 15 more | 25 hr |
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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.