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Frost Advisory 2, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this frost advisory at Apr 10, 2020, 3:32 PM EDT for 15 counties in Tennessee. It took effect at Apr 11, 2020, 4:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 2020, 3:32 PM EDT (19:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 11, 2020, 4:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2020, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
Counties Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Cocke 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, Sevier County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 1958 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this frost 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 frost advisory went out at Apr 10, 1:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 1:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 3:35 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | MRX | Anderson, Bledsoe, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Grainger and 10 more | 30 hr |
| Apr 10, 3:32 PM EDT | High Wind Watch | MRX | Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Monroe and 2 more | 24 hr |
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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.