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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Morristown, TN

February 27, 20235 counties in Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 2023, 4:57 PM EST for 5 counties in 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 27, 2023, 4:57 PM EST (21:57 UTC)
Expired
Feb 27, 2023, 5:45 PM EST
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
70.0 mph

Counties Blount County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Sevier County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 272 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 12:00Z on 2023-02-27Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2023-02-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 394 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
766 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
394 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
371 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 26, 6:23 PM EST, 22 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 6:23 PM EST, 22 hours 34 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 27, 3:18 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMRXSequatchie42 min
Feb 27, 5:02 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBlount, McMinn, Monroe, Polk, Sevier43 min
Feb 27, 5:08 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMRXBradley, Polk52 min
Feb 27, 5:16 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBradley, McMinn, Monroe, Polk44 min
Feb 27, 5:21 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMRXWashington24 min
Feb 27, 5:54 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMRXCherokee, Clay66 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.