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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2008, 8:43 PM CDT for Bledsoe County, Rhea County, Tennessee. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 9, 2008, 8:43 PM CDT (01:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2008, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
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 01:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1952 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1546 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
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 Jun 9, 8:15 PM CDT, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 8:15 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 500 AM EDT MON JUN 9 2008 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-101000- 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- 500 AM EDT (400 AM CDT) MON JUN 9 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST TENNESSEE...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING... AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A STAGNANT WEATHER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION THROUGH THE WEEK...WITH SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE EACH DAY. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE EACH DAY...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF THE EXPECTED SEVERE WEATHER. DMG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 3:26 PM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 426 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2008 TNZ039>043-070-073-092130- COCKE SMOKY MOUNTAINS-HAMBLEN-JEFFERSON-NORTH SEVIER-NORTHWEST COCKE-NORTHWEST GREENE-SOUTHEAST GREENE- 426 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AFFECTING COCKE...GREENE...HAMBLEN... JEFFERSON AND SEVIER COUNTIES... AT 418 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF HOT SPRINGS TO SEVIERVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 9 MPH. WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. IN ADDITION TO SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES PRIMARY KILLERS. REMEMBER... IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. 17
Local storm report, Jun 9, 4:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Loudon, McMinn, Monroe, Roane | 37 min |
| Jun 9, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan | 27 min |
| Jun 9, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, McMinn, Polk | 34 min |
| Jun 9, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell | 35 min |
| Jun 10, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Loudon, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe | 28 min |
| Jun 10, 1:37 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Anderson, Bledsoe, Loudon, Morgan, Rhea, Roane | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sullivan | 33 min |
| Jun 10, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter, Johnson, Sullivan, Washington | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.