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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Morristown, TN

July 31, 1995Morgan County, Scott County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1995, 7:57 PM EDT for Morgan County, Scott County, Tennessee. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 31, 1995, 7:57 PM EDT (23:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 31, 1995, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Morgan County, TN, Scott County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 182 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 1995-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1464 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 1995-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 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
1464 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1144 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 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
Jul 30, 8:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXAnderson61 min
Jul 31, 2:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXUnicoi42 min
Jul 31, 2:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXGreene62 min
Jul 31, 2:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWashington52 min
Jul 31, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCocke, Sevier54 min
Jul 31, 7:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXRoane59 min
Jul 31, 7:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXClaiborne, Union64 min
Jul 31, 7:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMorgan40 min
Jul 31, 7:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCampbell65 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.