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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Morristown, TN

August 1, 1995Jefferson County, Sevier County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1995, 5:54 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Sevier County, Tennessee. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 1, 1995, 5:54 PM EDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 1995, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Jefferson County, TN, Sevier County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 286 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 1995-08-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 954 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 1995-08-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 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
954 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
974 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 31, 8:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMonroe68 min
Jul 31, 8:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCumberland69 min
Jul 31, 8:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCampbell35 min
Aug 1, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXScott68 min
Aug 1, 3:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXPolk49 min
Aug 1, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBradley, Polk45 min
Aug 1, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton47 min
Aug 1, 4:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXLoudon, Roane57 min
Aug 1, 5:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMeigs, Rhea64 min
Aug 1, 6:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCampbell, Claiborne58 min
Aug 1, 6:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamblen59 min
Aug 1, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXGrainger, Jefferson60 min
Aug 1, 6:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHancock, Hawkins60 min
Aug 1, 7:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXGrainger, Jefferson, Knox65 min
Aug 1, 7:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXUnion59 min
Jul 31, 9:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWise62 min
Aug 1, 7:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXLee66 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.