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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2024, 9:01 PM EDT for Morgan County, Scott County, Tennessee. It was in force for 44 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
- Aug 17, 2024, 9:01 PM EDT (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2024, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Morgan County, TN, Scott County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 106 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 324 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
- 2551 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1301 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 8:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Hancock | 40 min |
| Aug 17, 8:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Hancock | 48 min |
| Aug 17, 8:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Scott | 42 min |
| Aug 17, 9:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Hamblen | 42 min |
| Aug 17, 9:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Morgan | 52 min |
| Aug 17, 9:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Hamblen | 50 min |
| Aug 17, 10:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Campbell | 39 min |
| Aug 17, 10:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Greene | 26 min |
| Aug 17, 10:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger, Union | 9 min |
| Aug 17, 10:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Morgan, Scott | 42 min |
| Aug 17, 11:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Anderson, Campbell, Scott | 38 min |
| Aug 17, 11:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell, Scott, Union | 42 min |
| Aug 17, 11:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Grainger, Union | 39 min |
| Aug 17, 11:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Knox | 46 min |
| Aug 18, 1:40 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Blount | 50 min |
| Aug 18, 4:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Johnson | 53 min |
| Aug 18, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Washington | 47 min |
| Aug 18, 4:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Washington | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.