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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Morristown, TN

May 28, 1995Pickett County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1995, 1:52 PM CDT for Pickett County, Tennessee. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1995, 1:52 PM CDT (18:52 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1995, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Pickett County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 145 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1995-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 311 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1995-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 203 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
311 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
821 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
263 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
3.6

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The text

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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

Local storm report, May 28, 9:19 AM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN
1015AM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995

 SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE

SOURCE OF REPORT  PUBLIC REPORTS/HAMS
OCCURRENCE        WIND/HAIL ...TREES DOWN...PEA SIZE HAILb/HEAVY RAIN
DATE AND TIME     5/27/95  740PM EDT
COUNTY            HAMILTON...CITY OF RED BANK
Local storm report, May 28, 9:24 AM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN
1020AM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995

 SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE

SOURCE OF REPORT  SHERIFFS OFFICE
OCCURRENCE        WIND...HEAVY RAINS...TREES DOWN
DATE AND TtIME     5/28/95...800PM CDT
COUNTY            SOUTHERN BLEDSOE COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF PIKEVILLE
Local storm report, May 28, 9:26 AM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN
1020AM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995

 SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE

SOURCE OF REPORT  SHERIFFS OFFICE
OCCURRENCE        WIND...HEAVY RAINS...TREES DOWN
DATE AND TIME     5/27/95...800PM CDT
COUNTY            SOUTHERN BLEDSOE COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF PIKEVILLE
Local storm report, May 28, 9:29 AM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN
1025AM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995

 SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE

SOURCE OF REPORT  RADIO STATION/HAMS
OCCURRENCE        WIND...HEAVY RAINS...TREES DOWN
DATE AND TIME     5/27/95... 425PM EDT
COUNTY            EAST CENTRAL MCMINN COUNTY NEAR MONROE COUNTY LINE
Local storm report, May 28, 9:38 AM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITY TN
1032 AM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1000 AM    JAMESTOWN                 TN   FLOODING
5/28/95    FENTRESS                       FENTRESS COUNTY SHERIFF
                                          DISPATCH REPORTED FLOODING OF
                                          AN APARTMENT BUILDING IN
                                          JAMESTOWN. EVACUATION OF THE
                                          BUILDING WAS IN PROGRESS.
Local storm report, May 28, 9:40 AM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITY TN
1040 AM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1000 AM    JAMESTOWN                 TN   FLOODING
5/28/95    FENTRESS                       FENTRESS COUNTY SHERIFF
                                          DISPATCH REPORTED FLOODING OF
                                          AN APARTMENT BUILDING IN
                                          JAMESTOWN. EVACUATION OF THE
                                          BUILDING WAS IN PROGRESS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBlount44 min
May 27, 7:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXKnox, Sevier55 min
May 27, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXGrainger, Jefferson69 min
May 27, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCocke, Hamblen39 min
May 27, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXGrainger35 min
May 28, 8:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMRXCumberland, Fentress2 hr
May 28, 1:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXFentress28 min
May 28, 2:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMRXFentress66 min
May 28, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMorgan33 min
May 28, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXAnderson, Campbell, Scott65 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.