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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Morristown, TN

July 10, 2026Bradley County, Hamilton County, Polk County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2026, 1:57 PM EDT for Bradley County, Hamilton County, Polk County, Tennessee. It was in force for 33 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
Jul 10, 2026, 1:57 PM EDT (17:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 2026, 2:30 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Bradley County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Polk County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 201 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2026-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1445 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2026-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1445 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
813 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 1:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXMarion47 min
Jul 10, 1:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXMarion23 min
Jul 10, 1:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXBradley, Hamilton41 min
Jul 10, 2:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXPolk45 min
Jul 10, 3:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXClay38 min

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.