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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Morristown, TN

June 15, 2022Cherokee County, North Carolina

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2022, 6:09 PM EDT for Cherokee County, North Carolina. It was in force for 51 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
Jun 15, 2022, 6:09 PM EDT (22:09 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2022, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Cherokee County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 200 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2022-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1749 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2022-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1749 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-179 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1082 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 3:07 PM EDTHeat AdvisoryMRXAnderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Cocke, Grainger and 15 more29 hr
Jun 15, 7:03 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXMonroe117 min
Jun 15, 7:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXCarter42 min
Jun 15, 5:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXClay58 min
Jun 15, 5:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXSwain41 min
Jun 15, 5:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXCherokee45 min
Jun 15, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXClay39 min
Jun 15, 6:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXClay43 min
Jun 15, 6:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXCherokee49 min

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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.