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Freeze Watch 2, NWS Morristown, TN

March 21, 201631 counties in Tennessee; 4 counties in Virginia; Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina

NWS Morristown, TN issued this freeze watch at Mar 21, 2016, 3:09 AM EDT for 31 counties in Tennessee; 4 counties in Virginia; Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 22, 2016, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 21, 2016, 3:09 AM EDT (07:09 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 22, 2016, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired: Mar 21, 2016, 2:46 PM EDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN

All 37 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, 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, Union County, TN, Washington County, TN, City of Bristol, VA, Lee County, VA, Scott County, VA, Washington County, VA

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze watch 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 freeze watch went out at Mar 20, 7:26 PM EDT, 7 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 20, 7:26 PM EDT, 7 hours 43 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 21, 2:46 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	MRX	Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 25 more	19 hr

Nearby

Freeze Watches in Tennessee, 2016 Freeze Watches in Virginia, 2016 Freeze Watches in North Carolina, 2016 Every freeze watch in 2016

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.