Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 4:09 PM EDT for Unicoi County, Tennessee. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1995, 4:09 PM EDT (20:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1995, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Unicoi County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 664 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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, May 10, 2:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
TNZ012-013-035-036-066-101915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TN 208 PM EDT (108 PM CDT) WED MAY 10 1995 ...STRONG THUDERSTORMS OVER THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU... AT 200PM EDT (100PM CDT) WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER CUMBERLAND...MORGAN...SCOTT...ANDERSON AND CAMPBELL COUN EIN MIDDLE EASTERN TENNESSEE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HIGH WIND GUSTS...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. MOVEMENT OF THE CELLS IS NORTHEASTWARD AT APPROXIMATLY 35 MPH. PLEASE STAY AWARE OF DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATIONS AND STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES THAT MAY BE WARRENTED. JD NNNN
Special weather statement, May 10, 2:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
TNZ046-047-042-015-016-018-017-045-044-VAZ007-004-003-001-006-005- 009-008-002-101930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRISTOL TN ISSUED BY KNOXVILLE TRI CITY TN 234 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 8 PM... AT 230 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU FROM JUST EAST OF LONDON KENTU YTO CROSSVILLE TENNESSEE. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO EXTREME SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHEAST TENNESSEE IN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. INTERESTS IN NORTHEAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ARE URGED TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AS THESE STORMS APPROACH THE AREA...AND COULD CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES AS WELL AS FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS.
Special weather statement, May 10, 2:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
TNZ012-013-014-035-036-037-038-039-067-069-070-101945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TN 242 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR MOST OF MIDDLE EAST TENNESSEE UNTIL 8PM EDT... THE TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN EAST TENNESSEE: ANDERSON...CLAIBORNE...KNOX...CAMPBELL...GRAINGER...MORGAN... IJEFFERSON...SCOTT AND HAMBLEN UNTIL 8PM EDT. AT 235 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU MOVING NE AT 35 MPH. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OVER MORGAN...ANDERSON AND CAMPBELL COUNTIES. VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND SOME HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS DEVELOPING LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCATIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. PLEASE BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITION AND MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED. HEAVY RAINS CAN FLOOD ROADWAYS QUICKLY SO DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE THE ROAD IS COVERED WITH WATER. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JD NNNN
Special weather statement, May 10, 3:35 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger, Hamblen | 31 min |
| May 10, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson | 47 min |
| May 10, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Knox, Union | 47 min |
| May 10, 3:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Knox | 28 min |
| May 10, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger | 34 min |
| May 10, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter | 68 min |
| May 10, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Johnson | 62 min |
| May 10, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan | 29 min |
| May 10, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell, Scott | 29 min |
| May 10, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Lee, Wise | 55 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.