Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 1992, 11:56 AM EST for Monroe County, Tennessee. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 1992, 11:56 AM EST (16:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 1992, 1:00 PM EST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 10:43 AM EST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
TNZ005-191645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN 1041 AM EST THU MAR 19 1992 AT 1035 AM EST...THE CHATTANOOGA WEATHER RADAR WAS INDICATING A THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY TENNESSEE. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN MARION COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE SHORTLY. THIS THUNDERSTORM LIKELY CONTAINS STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND EVEN SOME HAIL. RESIDENTS OF MARION COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR SO.
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 11:32 AM EST, 24 minutes before
TNZ001>005-016-VAZ008-009-013>016-KYZ006>009-WVZ003-004-006>008- NCZ006>013-SCZ001>004-GAZ002-191730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRISTOL TN 1125 AM EST THUR MAR 19 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR GREENE AND UNICOI COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST TENNESSEE UNTIL 4PM EST... AT 1125 AM EST...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE IN A 60 MILE WIDE AREA FROM NORTH OF BULEFIELD WEST VIRGINIA AND EXTENDED THROUGH SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA TO SOUTH OF HARRIMAN TENNESSEE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MAINLY NORTH TO WEST OF KNOXVILLE AREA. THUNDERSTORMS IN THE WATCH AREA COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING WINDS. MOVEMENT TO TsHE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 12:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Loudon | 66 min |
| Mar 19, 12:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sevier | 66 min |
| Mar 19, 1:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Monroe | 69 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.