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Special Weather Statement, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this special weather statement at Oct 14, 2014, 8:49 AM EDT for 4 counties in 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 14, 2014, 8:49 AM EDT (12:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2014, 9:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
Counties Grainger County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 302 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
- 374 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Oct 14, 7:26 AM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 14, 7:26 AM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 350 AM EDT TUE OCT 14 2014 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-150800- 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- 350 AM EDT TUE OCT 14 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL PUSH A COLD FRONT THROUGH OUR AREA TODAY AND EARLY THIS EVENING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED AHEAD OF THIS FRONT...AND SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT...ALTHOUGH AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY LEAD TO FLOODING IN SOME AREAS AS WELL TODAY INTO THIS EVENING. IN ADDITION...STRONG WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED TODAY OVER SOME OF THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS AND FOOTHILLS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 14, 4:05 AM EDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
405 AM EDT TUE OCT 14 2014
TNZ083>085-099>101-140845-
RHEA-WEST POLK-BRADLEY-MCMINN-MEIGS-HAMILTON-
405 AM EDT TUE OCT 14 2014
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT RHEA...WEST POLK...
BRADLEY...MCMINN...MEIGS...HAMILTON...
AT 404 AM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM NEAR DECATUR TO 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HARRISON...AND
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CLEVELAND...ATHENS...DAYTON...DECATUR...BENTON...SODDY-DAISY...
ETOWAH...LAKESITE...CHARLESTON...RIDGESIDE...HARRISON...EAST
CLEVELAND...WILDWOOD LAKE...SOUTH CLEVELAND...COLLEGEDALE...
ENGLEWOOD...GRAYSVILLE...NIOTA...CALHOUN AND BIG SPRING.
HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
LAT...LON 3499 8527 3558 8502 3554 8448 3545 8444
3499 8463
TIME...MOT...LOC 0804Z 224DEG 24KT 3556 8487 3501 8506
MJBLocal storm report, Oct 14, 6:20 AM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 12:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Marion, Sequatchie | 51 min |
| Oct 14, 1:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Bledsoe, Hamilton, Marion, Meigs, Rhea, Sequatchie | 51 min |
| Oct 14, 4:05 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Bradley, McMinn, Meigs | 40 min |
| Oct 14, 4:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Marion, Sequatchie | 3 hr |
| Oct 14, 7:41 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | MRX | Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Oct 14, 8:12 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Anderson, Blount, Grainger, Jefferson, Knox, Loudon and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 14, 8:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke, Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson, Knox, Sevier | 28 min |
| Oct 14, 9:19 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Bledsoe, Rhea | 41 min |
| Oct 14, 10:34 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Meigs, Rhea | 116 min |
| Oct 14, 11:42 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Anderson, Campbell, Loudon, Morgan, Roane, Scott | 2 hr |
| Oct 14, 1:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger, Jefferson and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 14, 1:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Monroe, Polk | 2 hr |
| Oct 14, 2:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Blount, Knox | 47 min |
| Oct 14, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson | 42 min |
| Oct 14, 3:22 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Blount, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 14, 4:23 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Blount, Claiborne, Grainger, Hancock, Jefferson, Knox and 2 more | 112 min |
| Oct 14, 3:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 3 hr |
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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.