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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Morristown, TN

June 9, 1996Hawkins County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1996, 6:17 PM EDT for Hawkins County, Tennessee. It was in force for 13 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
Jun 9, 1996, 6:17 PM EDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1996, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
13 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Hawkins County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 276 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 1996-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 342 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 1996-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 136 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
342 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.7

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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
Jun 9, 5:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCocke, Jefferson38 min
Jun 9, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamblen, Hawkins25 min
Jun 9, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMorgan, Roane47 min
Jun 9, 6:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXScott43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1996Every severe thunderstorm 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.