Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2009, 7:15 PM EDT for 5 counties in Tennessee; 4 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 60 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, 2009, 7:15 PM EDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2009, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Carter County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Greene County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Washington County, TN, City of Bristol, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Washington County, VA
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 451 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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, 6:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 6:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 609 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 2009 .DISCUSSION...UPDATED FORECAST TO ADD SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF EAST TN AND SW VA. LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS EXTENDED FROM CLAIBORNE COUNTY SOUTHWEST TO NEAR SPRING CITY IN RHEA COUNTY AND WILL MOVE RAPIDLY EAST THIS EVENING. WILL LIKELY UPDATE IN A FEW HOURS TO REMOVE COUNTIES FROM PREVIOUS WATCH IN THE NW COUNTIES AS LINE MOVES EAST. && .MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. && TD
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 16, 6:15 PM EDT, 1 hour before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
615 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0602 PM TSTM WND DMG 11 W SUNBRIGHT 36.24N 84.87W
06/16/2009 MORGAN TN TRAINED SPOTTER
SEVERAL LARGE LIMBS DOWN. REPORTED BY SPOTTER.
&&
FEF/JCGLocal storm report, Jun 16, 6:26 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
626 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0602 PM TSTM WND DMG ELK VALLEY 36.48N 84.25W
06/16/2009 CAMPBELL TN AMATEUR RADIO
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ON HIGHWAY 297 IN THE ELK VALLEY
AREA. REPORTED BY DISPATCH.
&&
FEF/JCGLocal storm report, Jun 16, 6:27 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
627 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0602 PM TSTM WND DMG ELK VALLEY 36.48N 84.25W
06/16/2009 CAMPBELL TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ON HIGHWAY 297 IN THE ELK VALLEY
AREA. REPORTED BY DISPATCH.
&&
FEF/JCGLocal storm report, Jun 16, 6:51 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
651 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0610 PM TSTM WND DMG 16 W TAZEWELL 36.46N 83.86W
06/16/2009 CLAIBORNE TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ON AND ALONG HIGHWAY 63. REPORTED BY
DISPATCH.
&&
FEF/JCGLocal storm report, Jun 16, 6:58 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
658 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0600 PM TSTM WND DMG 5 SE HUNTSVILLE 36.36N 84.42W
06/16/2009 SCOTT TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
NUMEROUS TREES...POWER POLES AND POWERLINES DOWN
COUNTYWIDE. REPORTED BY DISPATCH.
&&
FEF/JCGLocal storm report, Jun 16, 7:15 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
715 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0655 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 SW CLINTON 36.07N 84.16W
06/16/2009 ANDERSON TN LAW ENFORCEMENT
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE. REPORTED BY DISPATCH.
&&
FEF/JCGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan, Scott | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell, Claiborne, Scott | 66 min |
| Jun 16, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Sequatchie | 36 min |
| Jun 16, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell, Morgan, Roane, Scott | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell, Claiborne, Hancock, Union | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | McMinn, Meigs, Rhea | 36 min |
| Jun 16, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Blount, Knox, Loudon, Roane, Union | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson and 3 more | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 7:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Anderson, Knox | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 7:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson, Knox, Sevier, Union | 25 min |
| Jun 16, 7:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hawkins, Jefferson and 3 more | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter, Greene, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Wise, City of Norton | 56 min |
| Jun 16, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Lee, Scott, Wise, City of Norton | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 7:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Russell, Scott, Washington, City of Bristol | 54 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.