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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2019, 9:29 AM CDT for 4 counties in 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 2019, 9:29 AM CDT (14:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2019, 10:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bledsoe County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Marion County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 872 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 968 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 3, 6:47 PM CDT, 14 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 3, 6:47 PM CDT, 14 hours 42 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 7:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Carter | 51 min |
| May 4, 8:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Hamilton, Marion, Sequatchie | 64 min |
| May 4, 9:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley | 44 min |
| May 4, 10:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | McMinn, Meigs, Rhea | 63 min |
| May 4, 10:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Bledsoe | 47 min |
| May 4, 10:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Polk | 43 min |
| May 4, 10:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Blount, Knox, Loudon, Monroe | 62 min |
| May 4, 11:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Anderson, Campbell, Morgan, Scott | 49 min |
| May 4, 12:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Blount, Grainger, Jefferson, Knox, Sevier, Union | 60 min |
| May 4, 12:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Cocke, Hamblen, Jefferson, Sevier | 56 min |
| May 4, 12:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke, Jefferson, Sevier | 42 min |
| May 4, 1:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Greene | 44 min |
| May 4, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter, Greene, Unicoi, Washington | 48 min |
| May 4, 2:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Carter, Johnson, Sullivan | 63 min |
| May 4, 11:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MRX | Lee, Russell, Scott, Washington, Wise, City of Bristol and 1 more | 17 hr |
| May 4, 11:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 56 min |
| May 4, 11:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 49 min |
Nearby
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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.