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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Morristown, TN

May 13, 1995Hamblen County, Jefferson County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1995, 5:41 PM EDT for Hamblen County, Jefferson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 1995, 5:41 PM EDT (21:41 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hamblen County, TN, Jefferson County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 260 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1995-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1995-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1227 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 13, 12:48 PM EDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before
TTAAVA KTRI 131648
VAZ001-002-110000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...AND RADAR SUMMARY...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRISTOL TN
ISSUED BY KNOXVILLE TRI CITY TN
1238 PM EDT SUN MAY 13 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TILL 5 PM FOR HANCOCK COUNTY...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR
HANCOCK COUNTY TILL 5 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS
ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS..LARGE HAIL..GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTING
ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

TRI-CITIES RADAR DETECTED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OCCURING IN
SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY AND OVER THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAUOF TENNESSE. AN INTENSE
STORM WAS OCCURRING WEST OF TAZEWELL TENNESSEE.
MOVEMENT OF STORM WAS EAST AT 40 MPH.
Special weather statement, May 13, 1:30 PM EDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
TTAAVA KTRI 131730
VAZ001-002-110000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRISTOL TN
ISSUED BY KNOXVILLE TRI CITY TN
138 PM EDT SUN MAY 13 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TILL 5 PM FOR HANCOCK COUNTY...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR
HANCOCK COUNTY TILL 5 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS
ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS..LARGE HAIL..GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTING
ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, May 13, 4:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
TNZ046-047-042-043-015-016-018-017-045-044-VAZ001-006-005-008-002-
132115-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRISTOL TN
ISSUED BY KNOXVILLE TRI CITY TN
410 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EDT FOR LEE AND
HANCOCK COUNTIES...

AT 404 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER INDICATED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS EASTERN CARTER...EASTERN SULLIVAN...WASHINGTON...
AND GREENE COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST TENNESSEE.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING
EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.  PERSONS IN BRISTOL...JOHNSON CITY...
GREENEVILLE...AND SURROUNDING CITIES CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...
STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MILES AN HOUR...SMALL HAIL...AND
FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

ONE HOUR RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN ONE-HALF AND ONE INCH ARE EXPECTED
WHICH WILL PRODUCE PONDING ON AREA ROADWAYS AND POSSIBLE LOCALLIZED
FLOODING.  REMEMBER...DO NOT CROSS WATER COVERED ROADWAYS.  THE WATER
DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT FOR SAFE PASSAGE.

A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED ACROSS THE REST
OF NORTHEAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA.  THIS AREA OF STORMS
WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR.

PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE ADDITIONAL
WARNINGS.

DH
Special weather statement, May 13, 5:30 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 10:20 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCumberland, Fentress55 min
May 13, 10:20 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXPickett55 min
May 13, 10:52 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMorgan68 min
May 13, 11:19 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXScott41 min
May 13, 12:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXClaiborne, Union69 min
May 13, 12:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCampbell67 min
May 13, 1:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHancock, Hawkins56 min
May 13, 1:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXPickett42 min
May 13, 2:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXFentress58 min
May 13, 2:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMorgan, Scott47 min
May 13, 2:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCarter53 min
May 13, 3:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCampbell57 min
May 13, 3:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXUnion49 min
May 13, 4:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXGreene26 min
May 13, 4:41 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXCampbell, Union2 hr
May 13, 6:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXGreene65 min
May 13, 6:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWashington54 min
May 13, 6:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWashington43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.