Alert archive / Tennessee / Freeze Warnings in 2006

Freeze Warning 8, NWS Memphis, TN

October 13, 20067 counties in Tennessee; Tishomingo County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this freeze warning at Oct 13, 2006, 9:24 PM CDT for 7 counties in Tennessee; Tishomingo County, Mississippi. It took effect at Oct 14, 2006, 12:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 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 13, 2006, 9:24 PM CDT (02:24 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 14, 2006, 12:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 14, 2006, 7:47 AM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN

Counties Tishomingo County, MS, Carroll County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Obion County, TN, Weakley County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 326 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, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2006-10-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2006-10-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -36 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
2955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Tennessee, 2006Freeze Warnings in Mississippi, 2006Every freeze warning in 2006

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.