Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1995, 2:00 PM CDT for Fentress County, Scott County, Tennessee. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1995, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1995, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fentress County, TN, Scott County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 914 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMRX 111902 RRA SVRMRX TNC049-151-112000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES TN 300 PM EDT (200 PM CDT) SUN JUN 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EDT (300 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST TENNESSEE ...EASTERN FENTRESS COUNTY...WESTERN SCOTT COUNTY AT 300PM EDT (200PM CDT) NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN MORRISTOWN INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR ALLARDT IN FENTRESS COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN SCOTT COUNTY BEFORE 330PM EDT. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. REMEMBER ALSO THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, Jun 11, 10:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
NCZ060-061-TNZ036-071-013-047-014-040-046-043-041-074-072-066-034- 038-042-039-015-016-070-018-069-068-085-084-087-035-083-067-012- 071-017-045-037-044-087-099-100-101-102-VAZ001-006-005-008-002- 111715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI CITIES TN 1110 AM EDT (1010 AM CDT) SUN JUN 11 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... A WARM HUMID AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL COMBINE WITH AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT TO BRING ALL OF EAST TENNESSEE...EXTREME SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA A ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FLASH FLOODING WILL BE A POSSIBILITY THIS AFTERNOON AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT. IN ADDITION TO THE EXPECTED HEAVY RAINFALL...SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND LISTEN TO RADIO...TELEVISION OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. WWUS35KTBW /
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 10:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
NCZ060-061-TNZ036-071-013-047-014-040-046-043-041-074-072-066-034- 038-042-039-015-016-070-018-069-068-085-084-087-035-083-067-012- 071-017-045-037-044-087-099-100-101-102-VAZ001-006-005-008-002- 111715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI CITIES TN 1110 AM EDT (1010 AM CDT) SUN JUN 11 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... A WARM HUMID AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL COMBINE WITH AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT TO BRING ALL OF EAST TENNESSEE...EXTREME SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA A ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FLASH FLOODING WILL BE A POSSIBILITY THIS AFTERNOON AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT. IN ADDITION TO THE EXPECTED HEAVY RAINFALL...SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND LISTEN TO RADIO...TELEVISION OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. WWUS35KTBW /
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell | 58 min |
| Jun 11, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton | 65 min |
| Jun 11, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Meigs | 53 min |
| Jun 11, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, McMinn | 55 min |
| Jun 11, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell, Union | 69 min |
| Jun 11, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Knox, Loudon | 69 min |
| Jun 11, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, Polk | 52 min |
| Jun 11, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hancock, Hawkins | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke, Greene | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sullivan | 53 min |
| Jun 11, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sullivan | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.