Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 306, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 2009, 9:19 AM EDT for Cocke County, Greene County, Tennessee. It was in force for 41 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
- Sep 9, 2009, 9:19 AM EDT (13:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 2009, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cocke County, TN, Greene County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:19 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 329 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
- 591 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1104 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 Sep 9, 7:25 AM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 7:25 AM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 9, 5:15 AM EDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 515 AM EDT WED SEP 9 2009 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-100915- 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- 515 AM EDT WED SEP 9 2009 /415 AM CDT WED SEP 9 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AN UPPER LEVEL LOW SYSTEM TO THE NORTH WILL DRIFT ACROSS THE REGION. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP TODAY...SOME OF WHICH WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND CAUSE ISOLATED MINOR FLOODING. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE LEVELS WITH STRONG WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL LINGER TO THE NORTH ON THURSDAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AGAIN ON THURSDAY...A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE WITH STRONG WINDS. SOME OF STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AGAIN AND CAUSE ISOLATED MINOR FLOODING. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 8:35 AM EDT, 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 835 AM EDT WED SEP 9 2009 VAZ006-091315- RUSSELL- 835 AM EDT WED SEP 9 2009 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE AFFECTING RUSSELL COUNTY... AT 834 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DAVENPORT...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS...IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH PER HOUR...MAY OCCUR WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...AND POSSIBLE MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. TURN AROUND DONT DROWN MJB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 8:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Bledsoe, Hamilton, Sequatchie | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 8:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Rhea, Sequatchie | 53 min |
| Sep 8, 8:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Bledsoe | 80 min |
| Sep 8, 9:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Grainger, Union | 64 min |
| Sep 9, 3:01 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Greene | 119 min |
| Sep 9, 10:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter, Sullivan | 47 min |
| Sep 9, 11:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter, Greene, Unicoi, Washington | 58 min |
| Sep 9, 3:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Sep 9, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton | 63 min |
| Sep 9, 8:31 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Scott, Wise, City of Norton | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2009Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.