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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Morristown, TN

April 15, 1992Anderson County, Knox County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1992, 5:57 PM EDT for Anderson County, Knox County, Tennessee. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 15, 1992, 5:57 PM EDT (21:57 UTC)
Expired
Apr 15, 1992, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Anderson County, TN, Knox County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 228 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 1992-04-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 85 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1992-04-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 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
85 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1444 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.