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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Morristown, TN

August 24, 2007Bledsoe County, Rhea County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2007, 5:04 PM CDT for Bledsoe County, Rhea County, Tennessee. It was in force for 23 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 24, 2007, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 2007, 5:27 PM CDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bledsoe County, TN, Rhea County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 150 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2007-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 622 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2007-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -16 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
622 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-136 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 24, 1:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 1:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
235 PM EDT FRI AUG 24 2007

.SHORT TERM...(TONIGHT AND SATURDAY)...UPPER RIDGE CONTINUES TO
FLATTEN OUT IN THE SHORT TERM...AND A WEAK COLD FRONT EDGES CLOSER.
MODELS INDICATE A BETTER CHANCE OF PRECIP TOMORROW...AND MORE
CLOUDS...WITH TEMPS LOWER THAN RECENT DAYS.  AM NOT OPTIMISTIC FOR A
DRAMATIC CHANGE...SO WILL ONLY GO WITH SLIGHT CHANCE POPS...AND WILL
GENERALLY GO A BIT ABOVE MAV TEMPS BOTH TONIGHT AND TOMORROW.

.LONG TERM...(SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY)...FRONT CURRENTLY
CAUSING  CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY IN THE MIDWEST WILL TRY TO ASSERT
ITSELF HERE ON SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY, BUT CONFIDENCE IS LOW. GFS
HAS A HUGE PRECIP BULLS EYE OVER THE CWA, BUT THIS APPEARS TO
CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK, SO WILL PARTLY IGNORE. BELIEVE FRONT WILL
DESTABILIZE AIR MASS ENOUGH TO RAISE POPS A HAIR, AND SOME SPOTS
WILL RECEIVE BOUNTIFUL WELCOME RAIN, BUT IT WILL BE LARGELY A GOOSE
EGG FOR MOST PLACES, AGAIN. UPPER RIDGE RETURNS TO DOMINANCE
TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY, UNTIL THE NEXT POSSIBLE LITTLE SYSTEM
MOVES THROUGH. THIS LATER TIME PERIOD IS REALLY THE PROBLEM BECAUSE
MODELS SHOW A DRAMATIC PATTERN CHANGE WITH UPPER TROF SETTLING IN
OVER EASTERN NOAM, AND RIDGE MOVING WEST. THIS WOULD PUT US IN MUCH
COOLER TEMPERATURE REGIME. HOWEVER USUAL CAVEATS APPLY THIS FAR
OUT. PLUS, WEVE ALL BEEN BURNED BEFORE WITH THIS TYPE OF
ADVERTISED CHANGE DURING THE DEEPENING DROUGHT, SO I AM GUN SHY.
HAVE LEFT TEMPS FROM PREVIOUS PACKAGE ALONE PRETTY MUCH. AT THIS
POINT, COOLER MEANS JUST SEASONALLY HOT, NOT BLISTERING RECORDS.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
CHATTANOOGA AIRPORT, TN  75  94  72  94  71 /  20  20  30  30  20
KNOXVILLE MCGHEE TYSON AIRPORT, TN  75  94  70  90  70 /  10  20  30  40  20
OAK RIDGE, TN  74  97  69  92  70 /  10  20  30  40  20
TRI CITIES AIRPORT, TN  67  93  66  88  65 /  10  20  30  40  20

&&

.MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NC...NONE.
TN...NONE.
VA...NONE.
&&

LDW/BB
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 24, 4:30 AM CDT, 12 hours 34 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
530 AM EDT FRI AUG 24 2007

NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-
005-006-008-251000-
CHEROKEE-CLAY-SCOTT TN-CAMPBELL-CLAIBORNE-HANCOCK-HAWKINS-
SULLIVAN-JOHNSON-MORGAN-ANDERSON-UNION-GRAINGER-HAMBLEN-
NORTHWEST COCKE-COCKE SMOKY MOUNTAINS-NORTHWEST GREENE-
SOUTHEAST GREENE-WASHINGTON TN-UNICOI-NORTHWEST CARTER-
SOUTHEAST CARTER-ROANE-LOUDON-KNOX-JEFFERSON-NW BLOUNT-
BLOUNT SMOKY MOUNTAINS-NORTH SEVIER-SEVIER SMOKY MOUNTAINS-
SEQUATCHIE-BLEDSOE-RHEA-MEIGS-MCMINN-NORTHWEST MONROE-
SOUTHEAST MONROE-MARION-HAMILTON-BRADLEY-WEST POLK-EAST POLK-LEE-
WISE-SCOTT-RUSSELL-WASHINGTON-
530 AM EDT FRI AUG 24 2007 /430 AM CDT FRI AUG 24 2007/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED.
HOWEVER...PLENTY OF SUNSHINE TODAY WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO WARM
INTO THE MID 90S NORTH AROUND 100 DEGREES SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON.
HEAT INDICES BETWEEN 100 AND 105 ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF THE
VALLEY BY THIS AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 24, 3:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 24, 2:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXPolk50 min
Aug 24, 2:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCocke51 min
Aug 24, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXPolk44 min
Aug 24, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMcMinn, Meigs34 min
Aug 24, 2:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXRussell39 min
Aug 24, 2:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWise, City of Norton29 min
Aug 24, 2:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXClay42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.