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Special Weather Statement, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this special weather statement at May 1, 2016, 2:13 AM EDT for Knox County, Loudon County, Tennessee. It was in force for 47 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
- May 1, 2016, 2:13 AM EDT (06:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2016, 3:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
Counties Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1111 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted.
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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 May 1, 1:31 AM EDT, 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 1, 1:31 AM EDT, 42 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 335 PM EDT SAT APR 30 2016 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-011945- 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- 335 PM EDT SAT APR 30 2016 /235 PM CDT SAT APR 30 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OR HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE. OTHERWISE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SUNDAY AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. A FEW SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. LARGE HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THESE STORMS. DAMAGING WIND AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS TOO. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 1, 12:51 AM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 12:51 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | McMinn, Meigs | 39 min |
| May 1, 5:35 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Scott | 115 min |
| May 1, 3:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Bradley | 41 min |
| May 1, 3:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Polk | 51 min |
| May 1, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Blount | 45 min |
| May 1, 7:34 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Russell | 26 min |
| May 1, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Wise | 35 min |
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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.