Alert archive / Tennessee / High Wind Watches in 2019
High Wind Watch 1, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this high wind watch at Jan 18, 2019, 10:44 AM EST for 5 counties in Tennessee. It took effect at Jan 19, 2019, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 18, 2019, 10:44 AM EST (15:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 19, 2019, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 18, 2019, 3:04 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
Counties Blount County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Greene County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Sevier County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Jan 18, 10:25 AM EST, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 18, 10:25 AM EST, 19 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 18, 10:20 AM EST, 24 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Morristown TN 1020 AM EST Fri Jan 18 2019 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-191530- 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- 1020 AM EST Fri Jan 18 2019 /920 AM CST Fri Jan 18 2019/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of Southwest North Carolina...East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Patchy dense fog will reduce visibilities to below one mile in a few locations through noon. Please exercise extra caution while driving this morning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday ...High Wind Watch for the Mountains and Adjacent Foothills for Saturday... A strong low pressure system will affect the area Saturday and Sunday. Ahead of this system, high winds will be possible across the mountains and foothills on Saturday. Southerly winds of 25 to 40 mph with gusts to 65 mph are possible. There will be a chance of thunderstorms Saturday afternoon and evening, and some storms could produce strong wind gusts and locally heavy rainfall. Much colder air will build into the area late Saturday night and Sunday, bringing a potential for light snow accumulations, mainly in the mountains and Southwest Virginia. Bitterly cold temperatures and brisk northwest winds may produce low wind chill values on Sunday night and Monday morning, mainly in the higher terrain. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed on Saturday.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 5:30 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | MRX | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 18, 3:04 PM EST | High Wind Warning | MRX | Blount, Cocke, Greene, Monroe, Sevier | 30 hr |
| Jan 18, 3:04 PM EST | Wind Advisory | MRX | Carter, Johnson, Polk, Unicoi | 30 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in Tennessee, 2019Every high wind watch in 2019
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.