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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Morristown, TN

May 9, 2008Blount County, Sevier County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2008, 10:50 PM EDT for Blount County, Sevier County, Tennessee. It was in force for 40 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: May 9, 2008, 10:50 PM EDT (02:50 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2008, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Blount County, TN, Sevier County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 9, 8:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 624 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1229 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.1

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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 May 9, 9:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 9:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 4:57 AM EDT, 17 hours 53 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
457 AM EDT FRI MAY 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-
457 AM EDT FRI MAY 9 2008 /357 AM CDT FRI MAY 9 2008/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL SWING BY TO OUR NORTH LATER TODAY
AND TONIGHT...BRINGING A CHANCE FOR SOME THUNDERSTORMS THIS
AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME
SEVERE...WITH THE THREAT OF DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...AND
POSSIBLY AN ISOLATED TORNADO. THE GREATEST THREAT OF ANY SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OVER AND NEAR THE PLATEAU AND SOUTHEAST
TENNESSEE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN
REGION ON SATURDAY NIGHT...BRINGING ANOTHER CHANCE FOR SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY NIGHT OR SUNDAY. THE GREATEST THREAT OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE OVER SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE AND
EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND
POSSIBLY AGAIN THIS WEEKEND.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 9, 8:46 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
846 PM EDT FRI MAY 09 2008

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

0820 PM     TSTM WND DMG     1 SW CLINTON            37.14N 82.47W
05/09/2008                   DICKENSON          VA   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            ONE TREE DOWN IN OAK RIDGE. REPORTED BY DISPATCH.

&&

GRC

Local storm report, May 9, 9:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 9:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 9:55 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 10:27 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
1027 PM EDT FRI MAY 09 2008

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

0956 PM     HAIL             ALCOA                   35.79N 83.98W
05/09/2008  M1.00 INCH       BLOUNT             TN   OFFICIAL NWS OBS

            ONE INCH HAIL AT THE MCGHEE TYSON AIRPORT. REPORTED BY
            CONTRAACT OBSERVER.

0958 PM     HAIL             MARYVILLE               35.75N 83.97W
05/09/2008  M1.00 INCH       BLOUNT             TN   TRAINED SPOTTER

            QUARTER INCH HAIL IN THE SPRING BROOKE COMMUNITY ON
            BREWSTER RD. REPORTED BY SPOTTER.

&&

GRC

Local storm report, May 9, 10:48 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
1048 PM EDT FRI MAY 09 2008

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

0935 PM     HAIL             LENOIR CITY             35.80N 84.27W
05/09/2008  E1.00 INCH       LOUDON             TN   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN LENOIR CITY AND NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
            COUNTYWIDE. REPORTED BY DISPATCH.

1020 PM     HAIL             ATHENS                  35.45N 84.60W
05/09/2008  E0.88 INCH       MCMINN             TN   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            NICKEL SIZE HAIL ON WOODMAN ST. REPORTED BY FIRE CHIEF.

1020 PM     HAIL             PIGEON FORGE            35.79N 83.56W
05/09/2008  E1.00 INCH       SEVIER             TN   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND UMEROUS TREES DOWN ON WEARS VALLEY
            RD. REPORTED BY DISPATCH.

&&

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 8:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Jefferson, Knox, Sevier	45 min
May 9, 8:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson, Campbell, Knox	27 min
May 9, 9:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bledsoe, Hamilton, Rhea, Sequatchie	29 min
May 9, 9:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Blount, Sevier	29 min
May 9, 9:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Loudon, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Rhea, Roane	31 min
May 9, 9:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Blount, Knox	24 min
May 9, 10:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bradley, Loudon, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Roane	38 min
May 9, 10:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Sevier	29 min
May 10, 3:54 PM EDT	High Wind Watch	MRX	Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Monroe and 3 more	13 hr
May 10, 3:54 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	MRX	Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Monroe and 3 more	45 hr
May 10, 2:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cherokee, Clay	36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2008 Every 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.