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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Morristown, TN

June 17, 2009McMinn County, Monroe County, Polk County, Tennessee; Cherokee County, North Carolina

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2009, 11:17 PM EDT for McMinn County, Monroe County, Polk County, Tennessee; Cherokee County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 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 17, 2009, 11:17 PM EDT (03:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2009, 12:01 AM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Cherokee County, NC, McMinn County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN

The radar

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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 Jun 17, 10:33 PM EDT, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 10:33 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 17, 9:17 PM EDT, 2 hours before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 9:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 10:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 10:43 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 11:00 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 11:14 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 8:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Blount, Cocke, Knox, Loudon, Monroe, Roane and 1 more	3 hr
Jun 17, 8:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Blount, Loudon, McMinn, Monroe, Polk	47 min
Jun 17, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson, Blount, Knox, Loudon, Morgan, Roane and 1 more	61 min
Jun 17, 8:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Anderson, Blount, Knox, Loudon, Roane, Sevier	3 hr
Jun 17, 8:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Blount, Loudon, Monroe, Polk	58 min
Jun 17, 9:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Blount, Monroe	56 min
Jun 17, 10:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bradley, McMinn, Monroe, Polk	59 min
Jun 18, 12:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Morgan, Scott	53 min
Jun 18, 1:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson, Campbell	58 min
Jun 18, 1:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Morgan, Scott	63 min
Jun 18, 1:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Knox, Union	56 min
Jun 18, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Claiborne, Hancock, Hawkins	53 min
Jun 18, 2:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson, Campbell	32 min
Jun 18, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Loudon, Roane	58 min
Jun 18, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Blount, Sevier	64 min
Jun 18, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson	60 min
Jun 18, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Knox	30 min
Jun 18, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Greene, Hawkins, Sullivan, Washington	60 min
Jun 18, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Monroe	66 min
Jun 18, 3:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cocke	52 min
Jun 18, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Loudon	32 min
Jun 18, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Carter, Greene, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington	45 min
Jun 18, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Blount, Sevier	30 min
Jun 18, 1:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Lee, Scott, Wise, City of Norton	52 min
Jun 18, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Lee, Russell, Scott, Washington, Wise, City of Bristol and 1 more	62 min
Jun 17, 10:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cherokee, Clay	57 min
Jun 18, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cherokee, Clay	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2009 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2009 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.