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Freeze Warning 5, NWS Morristown, TN

March 15, 201731 counties in Tennessee; 4 counties in Virginia; Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina

NWS Morristown, TN issued this freeze warning at Mar 15, 2017, 3:44 AM EDT for 31 counties in Tennessee; 4 counties in Virginia; Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 15, 2017, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 15 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: Mar 15, 2017, 3:44 AM EDT (07:44 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 15, 2017, 8:00 PM EDT
Expired: Mar 16, 2017, 11:00 AM EDT
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN

All 37 counties

Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Anderson County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Carter County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Marion County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Polk County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Union County, TN, Washington County, TN, City of Bristol, VA, Lee County, VA, Scott County, VA, Washington County, VA

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:46 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 353 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1412 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 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 freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at Mar 15, 1:21 AM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 1:21 AM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 15, 3:27 PM EDT	Freeze Watch	MRX	Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 22 more	23 hr
Mar 15, 3:37 PM EDT	Wind Chill Advisory	MRX	Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Monroe and 2 more	19 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Tennessee, 2017 Freeze Warnings in Virginia, 2017 Freeze Warnings in North Carolina, 2017 Every freeze warning in 2017

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.