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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Morristown, TN

June 6, 1995Blount County, Loudon County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1995, 10:07 PM EDT for Blount County, Loudon County, Tennessee. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1995, 10:07 PM EDT (02:07 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1995, 11:15 PM EDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Blount County, TN, Loudon County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -189 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 9:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCumberland62 min
Jun 6, 10:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXClaiborne, Union63 min
Jun 6, 10:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXKnox55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.