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Wind Chill Advisory 5, NWS Morristown, TN

February 14, 201514 counties in Tennessee; Lee County, Scott County, Virginia; Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina

NWS Morristown, TN issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 14, 2015, 2:33 AM CST for 14 counties in Tennessee; Lee County, Scott County, Virginia; Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina. It took effect at Feb 14, 2015, 10:00 PM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 14, 2015, 2:33 AM CST (08:33 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 14, 2015, 10:00 PM CST
Expired
Feb 15, 2015, 10:10 AM CST
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN

Counties Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Bledsoe County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Carter County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Marion County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Polk County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Washington County, TN, Lee County, VA, Scott County, VA

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:33 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 345 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2015-02-14Temperature 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2015-02-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2471 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind chill advisory went out at Feb 13, 11:42 PM CST, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 11:42 PM CST, 2 hours 51 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 14, 2:33 AM CSTWind Chill WarningMRXBlount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Monroe and 2 more32 hr
Feb 14, 2:33 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryMRXBlount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Sevier and 1 more24 hr
Feb 14, 2:52 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchMRXAnderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 27 more24 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in Tennessee, 2015Wind Chill Advisories in Virginia, 2015Wind Chill Advisories in North Carolina, 2015Every wind chill 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.