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Special Weather Statement, NWS Morristown, TN

August 30, 2021Russell County, Virginia

NWS Morristown, TN issued this special weather statement at Aug 30, 2021, 12:15 PM EDT for Russell County, Virginia. It was in force for 30 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 30, 2021, 12:15 PM EDT (16:15 UTC)
Expired: Aug 30, 2021, 12:45 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Russell County, VA

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 221 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 766 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1299 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 30, 10:14 AM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 10:14 AM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 30, 6:51 AM EDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 30, 12:15 PM EDT, 0 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 30, 3:35 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	MRX	Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 27 more	48 hr
Aug 30, 1:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Campbell	113 min
Aug 30, 1:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Campbell	29 min
Aug 30, 2:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Campbell	2 hr
Aug 30, 3:25 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	MRX	Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Monroe, Sevier and 1 more	34 hr
Aug 30, 4:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Campbell, Scott	2 hr
Aug 30, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Bradley, Hamilton, Polk	57 min
Aug 30, 5:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Bradley, Hamilton, Meigs, Polk	2 hr
Aug 30, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Rhea	45 min
Aug 30, 6:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Bradley, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Polk, Rhea	114 min
Aug 30, 6:20 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Bradley	115 min
Aug 30, 6:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Monroe	113 min
Aug 30, 6:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Bledsoe, Blount, Loudon, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe and 2 more	63 min
Aug 30, 7:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Anderson, Blount, Knox, Loudon, Meigs, Monroe and 3 more	2 hr
Aug 30, 7:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Blount, Knox, Sevier	58 min
Aug 30, 12:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Russell	2 hr
Aug 30, 1:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Russell, Washington	2 hr
Aug 30, 1:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Russell, Washington	3 hr
Aug 30, 2:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Wise	2 hr
Aug 30, 6:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Cherokee	62 min
Aug 30, 7:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Clay	58 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.