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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Morristown, TN

July 25, 1995Carter County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1995, 6:30 PM EDT for Carter County, Tennessee. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 1995, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1995, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Carter County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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 233 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 1995-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 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 1995-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1059 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 25, 3:17 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 3:17 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
315 PM EDT TUE JUL 25 1995

TSTMS ATTM IN E KY AND IN BRDR COUNTIES OF NRN PLATEAU MOVG E. WL
INCLUDE A SLIGHT CHC EVENING POP FOR SW VA/NE TN...DRY ELSW. FOR
WED...500 MB SHORT WAVE MOVG INTO STATE ARND 12Z REACHING MIDDLE TN
AROUND 00Z.  THINK BEST CHC FOR STORMS WL BE LATE WED AFTN AND WED
NIGHT. TROF AXIS SHOULD BE TO OUR E THU SO WL GO FOR MOSTLY SUNNY. WL
SEND CCF NUMBERS IN A SEC.

HSA/9

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 7:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXJohnson66 min
Jul 25, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXLee67 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.