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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Morristown, TN

May 6, 1996Bradley County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 6, 1996, 1:34 PM EDT for Bradley County, Tennessee. It was in force for 116 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 6, 1996, 1:34 PM EDT (17:34 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 1996, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
116 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Bradley County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 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 1996-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 68 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 1996-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 127 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
68 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-278 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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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
May 6, 6:56 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCocke, Sevier49 min
May 6, 12:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton49 min
May 6, 12:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBradley61 min
May 5, 9:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWise34 min
May 6, 2:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXClay43 min
May 6, 2:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCherokee51 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.