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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Morristown, TN

October 19, 200813 counties in Tennessee; 7 counties in Virginia; Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina

NWS Morristown, TN issued this freeze warning at Oct 19, 2008, 3:39 AM EDT for 13 counties in Tennessee; 7 counties in Virginia; Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina. It took effect at Oct 20, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 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 19, 2008, 3:39 AM EDT (07:39 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 20, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 20, 2008, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
All 22 counties

Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Blount County, TN, Carter County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Washington County, TN, City of Bristol, VA, City of Norton, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:41 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 329 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 2008-10-19Temperature 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2008-10-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1962 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Tennessee, 2008Freeze Warnings in Virginia, 2008Freeze Warnings in North Carolina, 2008Every freeze warning in 2008

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.