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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Morristown, TN

February 12, 2020Marion County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 12, 2020, 7:00 PM CST for Marion County, Tennessee. It was in force for 45 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
Feb 12, 2020, 7:00 PM CST (01:00 UTC)
Expired
Feb 12, 2020, 7:45 PM CST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Marion County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 142 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 00:00Z on 2020-02-13Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2020-02-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 775 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
99 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
775 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
947 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 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 Feb 12, 5:38 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 12, 5:38 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 12, 7:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBledsoe, Hamilton, Rhea, Sequatchie48 min
Feb 12, 7:17 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementMRXAnderson, Campbell, Morgan, Scott58 min
Feb 12, 7:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCampbell, Morgan, Scott53 min
Feb 12, 7:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton, Marion, Sequatchie45 min
Feb 12, 7:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXAnderson, Campbell, Loudon, Morgan, Rhea, Roane and 1 more52 min
Feb 12, 7:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBledsoe, Bradley, Hamilton, Loudon, McMinn, Meigs and 3 more64 min
Feb 12, 8:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCampbell, Claiborne, Grainger, Hancock, Scott, Union48 min
Feb 12, 8:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXAnderson, Blount, Campbell, Grainger, Jefferson, Knox and 3 more53 min
Feb 12, 8:54 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementMRXGrainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins66 min
Feb 12, 8:59 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementMRXBlount, Cocke, Jefferson, Monroe, Sevier61 min
Feb 12, 9:42 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementMRXCarter, Greene, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington48 min
Feb 13, 6:27 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningMRXCocke33 hr
Feb 13, 8:48 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningMRXCocke, Jefferson14 hr
Feb 12, 8:56 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementMRXLee, Scott, Wise, City of Norton64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2020Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2020

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.