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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Morristown, TN

June 10, 2010Bradley County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2010, 5:07 PM EDT for Bradley County, Tennessee. It was in force for 53 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 10, 2010, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2010, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Bradley County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 201 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2010-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1450 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2010-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1450 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
847 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
3.3

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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 10, 3:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 3:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 2:54 AM EDT, 14 hours 13 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 10, 11:50 AM EDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 10, 11:53 AM EDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 10, 11:55 AM EDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
1155 AM EDT THU JUN 10 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0550 PM     TSTM WND DMG     4 N SPRING CITY         35.75N 84.86W
06/09/2010                   RHEA               TN   UTILITY COMPANY

            NUMEROUS TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN ACROSS THE NORTHERN
            THIRD OF THE COUNTY. REPORTED BY VOLUNTEER ELECTRIC.

0612 PM     TSTM WND DMG     4 SE SPRING CITY        35.65N 84.81W
06/09/2010                   RHEA               TN   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            SEVERAL TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN NEAR THE JUNCTION OF
            HIGHWAY 302 AND WOLF CREEK ROAD. REPORTED BY DISPATCH.

0620 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 E EVENSVILLE          35.56N 84.92W
06/09/2010                   RHEA               TN   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            A COUPLE OF TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN ON PETE WORTHINGTON
            ROAD. REPORTED BY DISPATCH.

0637 PM     TSTM WND DMG     6 NE DECATUR            35.59N 84.72W
06/09/2010                   MEIGS              TN   UTILITY COMPANY

            NUMEROUS TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN ACROSS MUCH OF THE
            NORTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY FROM DECATUR TO NEAR TEN
            MILE. REPORTED BY VOLUNTEER ELECTRIC.

0642 PM     TSTM WND DMG     5 NNW ATHENS            35.52N 84.64W
06/09/2010                   MCMINN             TN   UTILITY COMPANY

            NUMEROUS TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN ACROSS MUCH OF THE
            NORTHWESTERN THIRD OF THE COUNTY. REPORTED BY VOLUNTEER
            ELECTRIC.

&&

FERRELL
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:14 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
414 PM EDT THU JUN 10 2010

TNZ100>102-102115-
BRADLEY TN-EAST POLK TN-WEST POLK TN-
414 PM EDT THU JUN 10 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR POLK AND BRADLEY COUNTIES UNTIL
515 PM EDT...

AT 412 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BENTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
15 MPH.

SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RELIANCE...GAP
SPRINGS...PARKSVILLE...CONASAUGA AND ARCHVILLE.

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! DON'T DROWN!

MJB
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:43 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBradley, Hamilton58 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.