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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Morristown, TN

July 16, 1995Unicoi County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 6:19 PM EDT for Unicoi County, Tennessee. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1995, 6:19 PM EDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1995, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Unicoi County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1995-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1864 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1995-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 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
1864 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
982 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton60 min
Jul 16, 7:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXScott31 min
Jul 16, 7:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWashington40 min
Jul 16, 7:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXSevier36 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.