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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Morristown, TN

May 24, 1996Scott County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 11:20 PM EDT for Scott County, Tennessee. It was in force for 55 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, 11:20 PM EDT (03:20 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1996, 12:15 AM EDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Scott County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2335 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 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
2335 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 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 24, 9:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCarter, Sullivan64 min
May 24, 10:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXJohnson61 min
May 24, 10:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXLoudon55 min
May 24, 10:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCarter, Sullivan65 min
May 24, 10:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXUnion66 min
May 24, 10:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBlount61 min
May 24, 11:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXRhea54 min
May 24, 11:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXKnox64 min
May 24, 11:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton62 min
May 24, 11:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXAnderson, Morgan55 min
May 24, 11:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXLoudon61 min
May 24, 11:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCumberland, Fentress56 min
May 24, 11:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXRoane49 min
May 24, 11:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXJefferson61 min
May 25, 12:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHancock61 min
May 25, 12:17 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBradley58 min
May 25, 12:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCampbell, Claiborne63 min
May 25, 12:28 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamblen62 min
May 25, 12:38 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXWashington3 hr
May 25, 12:42 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMeigs, Rhea63 min
May 25, 12:54 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXCarter2 hr
May 25, 12:54 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXHancock2 hr
May 25, 1:12 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMcMinn, Monroe63 min
May 25, 1:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXGreene, Washington59 min
May 25, 1:21 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBradley69 min
May 25, 1:34 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMcMinn, Monroe56 min
May 25, 1:44 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMeigs, Rhea61 min
May 25, 1:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCarter, Unicoi56 min
May 25, 1:51 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBlount69 min
May 25, 1:58 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXPolk62 min
May 25, 2:27 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXRhea4 hr
May 25, 3:07 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXWashington3 hr
May 25, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXSullivan39 min
May 25, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHawkins, Sullivan, Washington65 min
May 25, 5:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXGreene, Washington59 min
May 24, 8:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXScott, Wise56 min
May 24, 8:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXRussell, Washington66 min
May 24, 9:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXScott2 hr
May 25, 12:08 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXLee67 min
May 25, 3:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXScott39 min
May 25, 5:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXScott3 hr
May 25, 2:10 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCherokee65 min
May 25, 2:33 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXClay57 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.