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Wind Advisory 12, NWS Morristown, TN

May 22, 20265 counties in Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this wind advisory at May 22, 2026, 1:46 PM EDT for 5 counties in Tennessee. It took effect at May 22, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2026, 1:46 PM EDT (17:46 UTC)
In effect from: May 22, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT
Expired: May 23, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN

Counties Blount County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Greene County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Unicoi County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 310 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: 430 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 964 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at May 22, 1:16 PM EDT, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 1:16 PM EDT, 30 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
May 21, 10:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Marion	43 min
May 21, 10:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Marion	34 min
May 22, 1:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Marion	40 min
May 22, 2:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Loudon	46 min
May 22, 3:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Knox, Loudon	3 hr
May 22, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Union	41 min
May 22, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson, Grainger, Knox, Union	61 min
May 22, 6:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Anderson, Claiborne, Grainger, Knox, Union	119 min
May 22, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Claiborne, Grainger, Hancock, Union	57 min
May 22, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Claiborne	51 min
May 22, 7:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Hancock	47 min
May 22, 7:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Lee	31 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.