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Special Weather Statement, NWS Morristown, TN

August 9, 2018Loudon County, Roane County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2018, 4:14 PM EDT for Loudon County, Roane County, Tennessee. It was in force for 46 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 9, 2018, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2018, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN

Counties Loudon County, TN, Roane County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 195 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2018-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 407 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2018-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
407 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
876 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
75 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 8, 7:19 PM EDT, 20 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 7:19 PM EDT, 20 hours 55 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 2:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXHamilton, Marion40 min
Aug 9, 3:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXHamilton, Sequatchie38 min
Aug 9, 3:24 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXHamilton, Marion2 hr
Aug 9, 3:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXBledsoe, Meigs, Rhea, Roane41 min
Aug 9, 3:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXBradley, McMinn, Meigs, Polk45 min
Aug 9, 3:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXMorgan, Scott51 min
Aug 9, 4:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXMonroe, Polk45 min
Aug 9, 5:03 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXBlount, Loudon, Monroe, Roane2 hr
Aug 9, 5:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXKnox40 min
Aug 9, 5:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXSevier65 min
Aug 9, 6:19 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXScott78 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Tennessee, 2018Every special weather statement in 2018

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.