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Special Weather Statement, NWS Morristown, TN

August 6, 2016Morgan County, Roane County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2016, 8:07 PM EDT for Morgan County, Roane County, Tennessee. It was in force for 53 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: Aug 6, 2016, 8:07 PM EDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2016, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN

Counties Morgan County, TN, Roane County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 295 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: 143 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1837 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 Aug 6, 7:24 PM EDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 7:24 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 3:03 AM EDT, 17 hours 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 6, 8:07 PM EDT, 0 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
Aug 7, 2:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Anderson, Campbell, Scott	116 min
Aug 7, 3:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Monroe	2 hr
Aug 7, 3:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Monroe	118 min
Aug 7, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Monroe	33 min
Aug 7, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Sevier	30 min
Aug 7, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Jefferson	58 min
Aug 7, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Blount	67 min
Aug 7, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Carter	59 min
Aug 7, 5:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Blount	2 hr
Aug 7, 5:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Carter, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington	114 min
Aug 7, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Hamblen	46 min
Aug 7, 5:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Carter, Johnson, Sullivan, Washington	117 min
Aug 7, 6:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Jefferson	2 hr
Aug 7, 6:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Sullivan	118 min
Aug 7, 7:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Greene, Hamblen	2 hr
Aug 7, 7:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Claiborne, Grainger, Hancock, Hawkins	3 hr
Aug 7, 7:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Knox	2 hr
Aug 7, 7:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Hamilton, Marion	116 min
Aug 7, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Clay	49 min
Aug 7, 5:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Clay	2 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.