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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Morristown, TN

May 27, 1995Cocke County, Hamblen County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1995, 9:41 PM EDT for Cocke County, Hamblen County, Tennessee. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 1995, 9:41 PM EDT (01:41 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1995, 10:20 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cocke County, TN, Hamblen County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 263 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 74 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1475 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 27, 4:48 PM EDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 7:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 8:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 8:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Blount	44 min
May 27, 8:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Knox, Sevier	55 min
May 27, 9:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Grainger, Jefferson	69 min
May 27, 10:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Grainger	35 min
May 28, 9:27 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Cumberland, Fentress	2 hr
May 28, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Fentress	28 min
May 28, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Pickett	38 min
May 28, 3:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Fentress	66 min
May 28, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Morgan	33 min
May 28, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson, Campbell, Scott	65 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.