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Frost Advisory 5, NWS Morristown, TN

October 17, 201521 counties in Tennessee; Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina

NWS Morristown, TN issued this frost advisory at Oct 17, 2015, 3:36 AM EDT for 21 counties in Tennessee; Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina. It took effect at Oct 18, 2015, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

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, 3:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 18, 2015, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
All 23 counties

Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Anderson County, TN, Bledsoe 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, Marion County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Union County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:36 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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 2015-10-17Temperature 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 2015-10-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -27 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
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

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 17, 3:36 AM EDTFreeze WarningMRXBlount, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Greene and 10 more29 hr

Nearby

Frost Advisories in Tennessee, 2015Frost Advisories in North Carolina, 2015Every frost advisory 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.