Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1995, 4:36 PM EDT for Campbell County, Union County, Tennessee. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1995, 4:36 PM EDT (20:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1995, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Campbell County, TN, Union County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
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, Jun 11, 11:10 AM EDT, 5 hours 26 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, 11:10 AM EDT, 5 hours 26 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, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Fentress, Scott | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell | 58 min |
| Jun 11, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton | 65 min |
| Jun 11, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Meigs | 53 min |
| Jun 11, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, McMinn | 55 min |
| Jun 11, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Knox, Loudon | 69 min |
| Jun 11, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, Polk | 52 min |
| Jun 11, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hancock, Hawkins | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke, Greene | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sullivan | 53 min |
| Jun 11, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sullivan | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Lee | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Washington | 37 min |
| Jun 11, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 57 min |
| Jun 11, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Russell | 43 min |
| Jun 11, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 63 min |
Nearby
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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.