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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Morristown, TN

September 1, 1995Knox County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 1995, 12:19 PM EDT for Knox County, Tennessee. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 1, 1995, 12:19 PM EDT (16:19 UTC)
Expired
Sep 1, 1995, 1:15 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Knox County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:22 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 240 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 1995-09-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2470 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 1995-09-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 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
2470 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
940 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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
Sep 1, 11:19 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCampbell56 min
Sep 1, 11:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXClaiborne58 min
Sep 1, 1:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton41 min
Sep 1, 1:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBradley61 min
Sep 1, 1:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton35 min
Sep 1, 2:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton66 min
Sep 1, 5:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton45 min
Sep 1, 9:37 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWise68 min

Nearby

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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.