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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Morristown, TN

August 5, 2010McMinn County, Meigs County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2010, 1:20 PM EDT for McMinn County, Meigs County, Tennessee. It was in force for 28 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
Aug 5, 2010, 1:20 PM EDT (17:20 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 2010, 1:48 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 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 Aug 4, 7:18 PM EDT, 18 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 7:18 PM EDT, 18 hours 2 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 1:50 PM EDT, 23 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
150 PM EDT WED AUG 4 2010

NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-
005-006-008-051000-
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-
150 PM EDT (1250 PM CDT) WED AUG 4 2010

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ANOTHER HOT DAY IS IN STORE FOR THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION...
WITH ISOLATED AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE AROUND
THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS. THE COMBINATION OF VERY HOT TEMPERATURES AND
HIGH HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL PRODUCE HEAT INDICES ABOVE 100 DEGREES
ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION.

FOR MORE DETAILS...PLEASE SEE THE HEAT ADVISORY ISSUED FOR THE
SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL AREAS OF THE GREAT TENNESSEE VALLEY WHERE HEAT
INDICES WILL EXCEED 105 DEGREES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

HEAT INDICES ARE ONCE AGAIN EXPECTED TO EXCEED 100 DEGREES OVER MOST
OF THE REGION BY THURSDAY AFTERNOON...BUT WITH A WEAK COLD FRONT
APPROACHING THE REGION. THIS COLD FRONT WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY...WITH A FEW OF THESE STORMS
POSSIBLY BECOMING STRONG TO SEVERE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING
HOURS. THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING
WINDS...LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

DMG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 12:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBledsoe, Rhea65 min
Aug 5, 1:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHancock, Hawkins44 min
Aug 5, 1:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMorgan, Roane64 min
Aug 5, 1:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHawkins, Sullivan48 min
Aug 5, 1:56 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXBledsoe, Morgan, Rhea3 hr
Aug 5, 2:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCampbell, Claiborne, Hancock, Scott, Union44 min
Aug 5, 2:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMeigs, Rhea55 min
Aug 5, 2:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCarter, Johnson, Sullivan45 min
Aug 5, 3:00 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXKnox2 hr
Aug 5, 3:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCocke, Jefferson46 min
Aug 5, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXJefferson, Knox, Sevier39 min
Aug 5, 3:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCampbell, Morgan, Scott51 min
Aug 5, 3:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXGrainger, Hamblen26 min
Aug 5, 3:44 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXGrainger, Hamblen, Jefferson61 min
Aug 5, 3:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBradley61 min
Aug 5, 4:07 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXAnderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Morgan, Scott, Union113 min
Aug 5, 4:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXPolk58 min
Aug 5, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXGreene, Unicoi, Washington35 min
Aug 5, 4:33 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXBradley, Hamilton117 min
Aug 5, 4:51 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXCarter, Greene, Unicoi, Washington114 min
Aug 5, 4:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMcMinn33 min
Aug 5, 4:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCarter, Johnson32 min
Aug 5, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMarion, Sequatchie58 min
Aug 5, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXJohnson, Sullivan35 min
Aug 5, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton, Marion61 min
Aug 5, 5:45 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXBledsoe, Hamilton, Marion, Sequatchie2 hr
Aug 5, 2:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXRussell, Scott, Washington33 min
Aug 5, 2:33 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXRussell57 min
Aug 5, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXLee39 min
Aug 5, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXRussell, Scott, Wise, City of Norton28 min
Aug 5, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXRussell, Washington, City of Bristol41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.