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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Morristown, TN

October 26, 20057 counties in Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this freeze warning at Oct 26, 2005, 3:10 AM EDT for 7 counties in Tennessee. It took effect at Oct 27, 2005, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 26, 2005, 3:10 AM EDT (07:10 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 27, 2005, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 27, 2005, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN

Counties Blount County, TN, Carter County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Greene County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Unicoi County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:11 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 323 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2005-10-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2005-10-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 202 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
607 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
202 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
342 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.