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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Morristown, TN

May 10, 1995Carter County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 4:37 PM EDT for Carter County, Tennessee. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 1995, 4:37 PM EDT (20:37 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 1995, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Carter County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 201 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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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 29 minutes 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

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Special weather statement, May 10, 2:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 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 55 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

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Special weather statement, May 10, 3:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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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, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Unicoi	66 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, 1995 Every 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.