Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 373, NWS Morristown, TN

August 1, 2006Marion County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2006, 5:45 PM CDT for Marion County, Tennessee. It was in force for 45 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
Aug 1, 2006, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 2006, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Marion County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 221 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 2006-08-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1048 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 2006-08-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1048 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1076 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2006Every severe thunderstorm 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.