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High Wind Watch 5, NWS Morristown, TN

March 8, 2019Blount County, Cocke County, Sevier County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this high wind watch at Mar 8, 2019, 2:49 PM EST for Blount County, Cocke County, Sevier County, Tennessee. It took effect at Mar 9, 2019, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 8, 2019, 2:49 PM EST (19:49 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 9, 2019, 4:00 PM EST
Expired
Mar 9, 2019, 3:16 AM EST
In force
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN

Counties Blount County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Sevier County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 279 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 2019-03-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2019-03-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 468 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
468 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
525 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Mar 8, 12:32 PM EST, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 8, 12:32 PM EST, 2 hours 17 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 8, 3:42 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryMRXCarter, Johnson, Unicoi8 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.