Alert archive / Tennessee / Freeze Warnings in 2006
Freeze Warning 3, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this freeze warning at Oct 23, 2006, 2:55 PM EDT for 21 counties in Tennessee; Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina. It took effect at Oct 24, 2006, 4:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 5 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 23, 2006, 2:55 PM EDT (18:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 24, 2006, 4:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2006, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
All 23 counties
Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Anderson County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Marion County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Union County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:53 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 253 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 973 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -242 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 3:55 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | MRX | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Cocke, Grainger and 15 more | 11 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Tennessee, 2006Freeze Warnings in North Carolina, 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.