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Freeze Warning 6, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this freeze warning at Oct 4, 2014, 3:01 PM EDT for 9 counties in Tennessee; Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina. It took effect at Oct 5, 2014, 4:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 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 4, 2014, 3:01 PM EDT (19:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 5, 2014, 4:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2014, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
Counties Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Blount County, TN, Carter County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Greene County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Unicoi County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 299 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
- 1290 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 89 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 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 4, 3:31 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | MRX | Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hancock, Hawkins and 7 more | 12 hr |
| Oct 4, 3:01 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | MRX | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne and 17 more | 19 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Tennessee, 2014Freeze Warnings in North Carolina, 2014Every freeze warning in 2014
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.