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Frost Advisory 6, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this frost advisory at Oct 18, 2015, 2:49 PM EDT for 17 counties in Tennessee. It took effect at Oct 19, 2015, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 18, 2015, 2:49 PM EDT (18:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 19, 2015, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 19, 2015, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
Counties Anderson County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Hamilton 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), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 1591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 18, 2:49 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | MRX | Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene and 9 more | 19 hr |
Nearby
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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.