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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Morristown, TN

May 5, 20204 counties in Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2020, 7:25 PM EDT for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 2020, 7:25 PM EDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 2020, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Carter County, TN, Greene County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Washington County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 232 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 12:00Z on 2020-05-05Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2020-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 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
1899 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
444 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
May 4, 11:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMarion42 min
May 4, 11:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXSequatchie52 min
May 4, 11:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXHamilton50 min
May 4, 11:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXBradley40 min
May 5, 12:09 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXMcMinn, Polk51 min
May 5, 7:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXGreene, Washington48 min
May 5, 12:31 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXCherokee, Clay59 min
May 5, 4:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXCherokee, Clay47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2020Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2020

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.