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Freeze Warning 7, NWS Morristown, TN

October 25, 201318 counties in Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this freeze warning at Oct 25, 2013, 10:16 AM EDT for 18 counties in Tennessee. It took effect at Oct 26, 2013, 2:00 AM EDT. 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 25, 2013, 10:16 AM EDT (14:16 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 26, 2013, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 26, 2013, 10:00 AM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN

Counties Anderson 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, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Union County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:16 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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 373 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 12:00Z on 2013-10-25Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2013-10-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -213 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
1264 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-213 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-30 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.