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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Morristown, TN

March 6, 1996Cherokee County, North Carolina

NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 6, 1996, 9:04 PM EST for Cherokee County, North Carolina. It was in force for 10 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 6, 1996, 9:04 PM EST (02:04 UTC)
Expired
Mar 7, 1996, 7:00 AM EST
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Cherokee County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 200 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1996-03-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 113 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1996-03-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 191 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
113 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
215 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.