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Wind Chill Advisory 2, NWS Morristown, TN

January 16, 202433 counties in Tennessee; 7 counties in Virginia; Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina

NWS Morristown, TN issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 16, 2024, 3:22 AM EST for 33 counties in Tennessee; 7 counties in Virginia; Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jan 16, 2024, 2:00 PM EST. It was in force for 22 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 16, 2024, 3:22 AM EST (08:22 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 16, 2024, 2:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 17, 2024, 12:00 PM EST
In force
22 hr
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
All 42 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, Johnson 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, Unicoi County, TN, Union County, TN, Washington County, TN, City of Bristol, VA, City of Norton, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:22 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 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 306 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 00:00Z on 2024-01-16Temperature 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2024-01-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 191 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
3038 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
257 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
Jan 16, 3:22 AM ESTWind Chill AdvisoryMRXBledsoe, Campbell, Marion, Morgan, Scott, Sequatchie9 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in Tennessee, 2024Wind Chill Advisories in Virginia, 2024Wind Chill Advisories in North Carolina, 2024Every wind chill advisory in 2024

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.