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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Morristown, TN

May 27, 1996Washington County, Virginia

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 5:53 AM EDT for Washington County, Virginia. It was in force for 52 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 1996, 5:53 AM EDT (09:53 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1996, 6:45 AM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Washington County, VA

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 27, 6:00 AM EDT	Hail 0.75	Abingdon, VA
May 27, 6:15 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Abingdon, VA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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.

NWS Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 27, 2:49 AM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 2:49 AM EDT, 3 hours 4 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 27, 5:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson, Knox, Union	63 min
May 27, 5:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Roane	63 min
May 27, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Grainger, Jefferson	55 min
May 27, 6:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hamilton, Rhea	59 min
May 27, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cumberland	58 min
May 27, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Meigs	58 min
May 27, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson, Knox, Loudon, Roane	67 min
May 27, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	McMinn	60 min
May 27, 7:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Meigs	53 min
May 27, 7:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Bradley	45 min
May 27, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Monroe	56 min
May 27, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cocke	66 min
May 27, 7:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Polk	68 min
May 27, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Scott, Wise	68 min
May 27, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Russell, Washington	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.