Alert archive / Tennessee / Freeze Warnings in 2015
Freeze Warning 3, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this freeze warning at Oct 17, 2015, 3:36 AM EDT for 16 counties in Tennessee; 7 counties in Virginia; Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina. It took effect at Oct 18, 2015, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 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 17, 2015, 3:36 AM EDT (07:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 18, 2015, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2015, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
All 25 counties
Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Blount County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Carter County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Scott 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), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:36 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 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 316 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
- 2458 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 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 17, 3:36 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | MRX | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Cocke, Grainger and 15 more | 29 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Tennessee, 2015Freeze Warnings in Virginia, 2015Freeze Warnings in North Carolina, 2015Every freeze warning in 2015
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.