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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Morristown, TN

June 11, 1995Sullivan County, Tennessee; Washington County, Virginia

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1995, 6:29 PM EDT for Sullivan County, Tennessee; Washington County, Virginia. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 1995, 6:29 PM EDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1995, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Sullivan County, TN, Washington County, VA

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 197 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1995-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 226 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1995-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 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
226 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
835 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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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 11, 3:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXFentress, Scott60 min
Jun 11, 3:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCampbell58 min
Jun 11, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton65 min
Jun 11, 4:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMeigs53 min
Jun 11, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXAnderson45 min
Jun 11, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBradley, McMinn55 min
Jun 11, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCampbell, Union69 min
Jun 11, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXKnox, Loudon69 min
Jun 11, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBradley, Polk52 min
Jun 11, 5:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHancock, Hawkins59 min
Jun 11, 5:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCocke, Greene59 min
Jun 11, 6:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXSullivan53 min
Jun 11, 5:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXLee59 min
Jun 11, 5:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWashington37 min
Jun 11, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXScott57 min
Jun 11, 6:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXRussell43 min
Jun 11, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCherokee, Clay63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1995Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 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.