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Special Weather Statement, NWS Morristown, TN

May 30, 2016Grainger County, Hamblen County, Hancock County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this special weather statement at May 30, 2016, 4:02 PM EDT for Grainger County, Hamblen County, Hancock County, Tennessee. It was in force for 58 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 30, 2016, 4:02 PM EDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2016, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN

Counties Grainger County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hancock County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 334 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 144 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -139 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1227 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 8:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Loudon	48 min
May 29, 8:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Loudon	42 min
May 30, 3:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Hamblen, Hawkins, Washington	36 min
May 30, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Greene, Unicoi, Washington	61 min
May 30, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Hamblen, Jefferson	50 min
May 30, 6:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Blount	44 min
May 30, 6:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Blount, Knox	2 hr
May 30, 7:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Monroe	47 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Tennessee, 2016 Every special weather statement 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.