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Special Weather Statement, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this special weather statement at Jun 4, 2016, 1:02 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 43 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
- Jun 4, 2016, 1:02 PM EDT (17:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2016, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
County Jefferson County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 294 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
- 496 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 989 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
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 Jun 4, 10:20 AM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 10:20 AM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 4, 4:12 AM EDT, 8 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 412 AM EDT SAT JUN 4 2016 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-050815- 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- 412 AM EDT SAT JUN 4 2016 /312 AM CDT SAT JUN 4 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... ...SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... ...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING... AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE TOWARD THE TENNESSEE VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AIRMASS WILL BECOMING QUITE UNSTABLE ALLOWING SCATTERED TO WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP LATE TODAY. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE WITH THE MAIN CONCERN BEING DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION LATE TONIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING. HEAVY RAINS WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... ...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY RE-DEVELOP LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON... A FRONTAL PASSAGE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION SUNDAY AFTERNOON. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE. LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 1:02 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 102 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 2016 TNZ039-040-070-073-041745- NORTH SEVIER TN-JEFFERSON TN-NORTHWEST COCKE TN-HAMBLEN TN- 102 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL HAMBLEN...EASTERN JEFFERSON AND NORTHWESTERN COCKE COUNTIES UNTIL 145 PM EDT... AT 101 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR DANDRIDGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MORRISTOWN...NEWPORT...DANDRIDGE...WHITE PINE...BANEBERRY... PARROTTSVILLE...CHESTNUT HILL...BIRD CROSSING AND BYBEE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE. && LAT...LON 3586 8342 3598 8353 3618 8328 3597 8304 TIME...MOT...LOC 1701Z 236DEG 16KT 3596 8340 JW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Greene | 38 min |
| Jun 4, 4:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Washington | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 4:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Monroe | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 6:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Loudon | 41 min |
| Jun 4, 5:47 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Russell, Scott | 118 min |
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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.