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Special Weather Statement, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this special weather statement at Jun 8, 2021, 3:12 PM EDT for Cocke County, Tennessee. It was in force for 48 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
- Jun 8, 2021, 3:12 PM EDT (19:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2021, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
County Cocke County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 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
- 46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 749 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Jun 8, 2:20 PM EDT, 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 2:20 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 8, 2:31 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Morristown TN
231 PM EDT Tue Jun 8 2021
TNZ040-041-073-074-081915-
Cocke Smoky Mountains TN-Northwest Cocke TN-
Sevier Smoky Mountains TN-North Sevier TN-
231 PM EDT Tue Jun 8 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN COCKE AND EAST CENTRAL
SEVIER COUNTIES UNTIL 315 PM EDT...
At 231 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 11
miles west of Smoky Mountains-Big Creek, or 11 miles east of
Gatlinburg, moving northeast at 15 mph.
Half inch hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with
this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Newport, Smoky Mountains-Big Creek, Cosby, Hartford and Waterville.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 3582 8338 3602 8314 3581 8297 3579 8305
3579 8308 3577 8311 3577 8316 3574 8317
3571 8328
TIME...MOT...LOC 1831Z 230DEG 14KT 3577 8331
BWSpecial weather statement, Jun 8, 3:12 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Morristown TN
312 PM EDT Tue Jun 8 2021
TNZ040>043-082000-
Cocke Smoky Mountains TN-Northwest Greene TN-Northwest Cocke TN-
Southeast Greene TN-
312 PM EDT Tue Jun 8 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR COCKE AND SOUTHWESTERN GREENE
COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM EDT...
At 312 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Newport, moving northeast at 15 mph.
Nickel size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with
this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Newport, Parrottsville, Caney Branch, Del Rio, Hartford and Cedar
Creek.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 3590 8330 3618 8300 3598 8278 3594 8284
3595 8287 3595 8290 3593 8290 3593 8292
3592 8291 3590 8291 3578 8309 3577 8313
TIME...MOT...LOC 1912Z 228DEG 14KT 3591 8314
BWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 2:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Cocke | 44 min |
| Jun 8, 3:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Greene, Washington | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 4:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Sullivan, Washington | 52 min |
| Jun 8, 4:54 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Greene | 51 min |
| Jun 8, 5:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Sullivan | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Johnson | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 5:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Russell | 42 min |
| Jun 8, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Clay | 49 min |
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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.