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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Morristown, TN

May 24, 1996Russell County, Washington County, Virginia

NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 1996, 6:34 PM EDT for Russell County, Washington County, Virginia. It was in force for 56 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 24, 1996, 6:34 PM EDT (22:34 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1996, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Russell County, VA, Washington County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 208 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1996-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 386 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1996-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 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
386 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-179 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
719 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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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 24, 7:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWashington59 min
May 24, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXRussell, Wise62 min
May 24, 7:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWise59 min
May 24, 7:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWashington59 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.