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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2008, 9:14 PM EDT for Wise County, Virginia. It was in force for 46 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 16, 2008, 9:14 PM EDT (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2008, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Wise County, VA
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 3369 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 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 Jun 16, 5:22 PM EDT, 3 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 5:22 PM EDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 10:02 AM EDT, 11 hours 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 1002 AM EDT MON JUN 16 2008 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-171000- 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- 1002 AM EDT MON JUN 16 2008 /902 AM CDT MON JUN 16 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT MODERATE INSTABILITY...COLDER TEMPERATURES ALOFT AND STRONG HEATING THIS AFTERNOON WILL CAUSE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN TENNESSEE. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREATS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL BRING IN COOLER AND DRIER AIR AND LIMIT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY FOR MOST OF THIS PERIOD. WITH THIS TYPE OF WEATHER PATTERN A MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE COMPLEX IS NOT OUT OF THE POSSIBILITY SO CONTINUE TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGH THE PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:14 PM EDT, 3 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 614 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2008 TNZ012>015-VAZ001-002-005-006-162345- CAMPBELL-CLAIBORNE-HANCOCK-LEE-RUSSELL-SCOTT-WISE- 614 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AFFECTING CAMPBELL...CITY OF NORTON...CLAIBORNE...HANCOCK...LEE...RUSSELL...SCOTT AND WISE COUNTIES... AT 608 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF JOHN FLANNAGAN LAKE TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILLIAMSBURG...MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS 30 TO 40 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. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. TG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 10:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Johnson | 43 min |
| Jun 16, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Russell, Wise | 32 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.