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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Morristown, TN

August 19, 1995Hamblen County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1995, 7:19 PM EDT for Hamblen County, Tennessee. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 19, 1995, 7:19 PM EDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 1995, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Hamblen County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 249 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 1995-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 980 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 1995-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 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
980 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
542 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 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
Aug 19, 6:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXGreene58 min
Aug 19, 6:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamblen42 min

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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.