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Special Weather Statement, NWS Morristown, TN

August 1, 2026Polk County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2026, 9:01 PM EDT for Polk County, Tennessee. It was in force for 29 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 1, 2026, 9:01 PM EDT (01:01 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2026, 9:30 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 50

County Polk County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 1431 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 986 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.6

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The text

As transmitted.

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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 1, 8:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Polk	19 min
Aug 1, 9:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bradley, Hamilton	43 min
Aug 1, 9:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Monroe	50 min
Aug 1, 9:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Blount, Loudon, McMinn, Monroe	46 min
Aug 1, 10:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Anderson, Campbell, Morgan, Scott	5 hr
Aug 1, 10:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Bradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Polk	3 hr
Aug 1, 10:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Polk	38 min
Aug 1, 11:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Polk	16 min
Aug 1, 11:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Polk	5 hr
Aug 2, 1:07 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Campbell, Scott, Union	113 min
Aug 2, 3:01 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	MRX	Polk	7 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.