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Wind Chill Advisory 2, NWS Morristown, TN

February 3, 200933 counties in Tennessee; 7 counties in Virginia; Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina

NWS Morristown, TN issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 3, 2009, 2:57 PM EST for 33 counties in Tennessee; 7 counties in Virginia; Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina. It took effect at Feb 3, 2009, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 3, 2009, 2:57 PM EST (19:57 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 3, 2009, 10:00 PM EST
Expired
Feb 4, 2009, 1:17 PM EST
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
All 42 counties

Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Anderson County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Carter County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Marion County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Polk County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Union County, TN, Washington County, TN, City of Bristol, VA, City of Norton, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 265 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2009-02-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2009-02-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 382 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1817 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
382 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
439 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Feb 3, 2:25 PM EST, 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 3, 2:25 PM EST, 32 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 2, 5:05 PM EST, 21 hours 52 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
505 PM EST MON FEB 2 2009

NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-005-
006-008-031000-
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-
505 PM EST (405 PM CST) MON FEB 2 2009

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

COLDER AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION TONIGHT...WITH TEMPERATURES
EXPECTED TO FALL BELOW FREEZING. THIS MAY CAUSE SOME BLACK ICE TO
FORM IN AREAS WHERE MOISTURE LINGERS FROM EARLIER PRECIPITATION...
ESPECIALLY ON SECONDARY ROADS AND BRIDGES. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS
WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

ANOTHER WAVE OF SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS
THE REGION BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON...AND CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
ADDITIONAL SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE
ACROSS SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND THE MOUNTAINS OF EAST TENNESSEE...
WHERE A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TUESDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH WEDNESDAY. PLEASE SEE MEMWSWMRX FOR FURTHER DETAILS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FOR SNOWFALL REPORTS ON WEDNESDAY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 3, 4:28 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryMRXAnderson, Blount, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke and 18 more47 hr
Feb 3, 10:10 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningMRXBlount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Sevier and 1 more41 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in Tennessee, 2009Wind Chill Advisories in Virginia, 2009Wind Chill Advisories in North Carolina, 2009Every wind chill advisory 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.