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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Morristown, TN

August 18, 1995Scott County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 1995, 5:44 PM EDT for Scott County, Tennessee. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 18, 1995, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired
Aug 18, 1995, 6:38 PM EDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Scott County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 191 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 1995-08-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2622 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 1995-08-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -22 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
2622 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
934 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.