Alert archive / Tennessee / Winter Storm Warnings in 2009

Winter Storm Warning 4, NWS Morristown, TN

December 18, 200915 counties in Tennessee; 7 counties in Virginia

NWS Morristown, TN issued this winter storm warning at Dec 18, 2009, 4:18 AM EST for 15 counties in Tennessee; 7 counties in Virginia. It took effect at Dec 18, 2009, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 37 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 18, 2009, 4:18 AM EST (09:18 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 18, 2009, 11:00 AM EST
Expired: Dec 20, 2009, 12:00 AM EST
In force: 37 hr
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN

All 22 counties

Blount County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Carter County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi 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), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:22 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Dec 18, 3:36 AM EST, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 18, 3:36 AM EST, 42 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 18, 5:16 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock and 6 more	119 min

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Tennessee, 2009 Winter Storm Warnings in Virginia, 2009 Every winter storm 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.