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Special Weather Statement, NWS Morristown, TN

August 16, 2021Meigs County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this special weather statement at Aug 16, 2021, 4:28 PM EDT for Meigs County, Tennessee. It was in force for 47 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: Aug 16, 2021, 4:28 PM EDT (20:28 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2021, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 40

County Meigs County, TN

The radar

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The text

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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 Aug 15, 7:42 PM EDT, 20 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 7:42 PM EDT, 20 hours 46 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 15, 10:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Bradley, Hamilton	3 hr
Aug 16, 1:41 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Bradley, Hamilton	109 min
Aug 16, 3:10 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Monroe, Polk	2 hr
Aug 16, 6:18 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Marion, Sequatchie	117 min
Aug 16, 8:51 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	MRX	Cocke	56 hr
Aug 16, 2:06 PM EDT	Flood Watch	MRX	Blount, Bradley, Carter, Cocke, Grainger, Greene and 12 more	32 min
Aug 16, 2:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	MRX	Blount, Bradley, Carter, Cocke, Grainger, Greene and 16 more	33 hr
Aug 16, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Meigs, Rhea	50 min
Aug 16, 7:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Cocke, Greene	3 hr

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.