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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Morristown, TN

May 6, 1996Cherokee County, North Carolina

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1996, 2:54 PM EDT for Cherokee County, North Carolina. It was in force for 51 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, 2:54 PM EDT (18:54 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 1996, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Cherokee County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1203 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -54 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
941 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 6, 1:34 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXBradley116 min
May 5, 9:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWise34 min
May 6, 2:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXClay43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 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.