Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 1996, 11:21 AM EST for Monroe County, Tennessee. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 15, 1996, 11:21 AM EST (16:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 1996, 12:15 PM EST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 11:30 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Tellico Plains, TN |
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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 613 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
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 Mar 15, 10:23 AM EST, 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 10:23 AM EST, 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN 1015AM EST FRI MAR 15 1996 SOME EARLY MORNING STORMS ARE CURRENTLY EXITING THE REGION...HOWEVER THE SECOND VERSE IS FIXING TO BE SUNG. THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE PLATEAU ARE MOVING EASTWARD AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. SW VIRGINIA WILL LIKELY ESCAPE THE WORST OF THE STORMS ALONG WITH NORTHEAST TENNESSEE. FROM THE CENTRAL VALLEY SOUTHWARD HOWEVER IS VULNERABLE TO STRONG STORMS. VIEWING A MODIFIED BNA SOUNDING GIVES A FAIRLY STRONG WIND POTENTIAL ALONG WITH A HAIL POTENTIAL. 500 MB TEMPS OF -18 GIVE A VERY LOW VIL DE JURE. LOOKING FORWARD THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THE PRECIP WILL CLEAR THE AREA BY TONIGHT AND POPS COULD BE LOWERED OVER MOST OF THE REGION. TEMPS AND SATURDAY LOOK OK.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 2:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Hancock, Hawkins | 4 hr |
| Mar 15, 2:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Johnson, Sullivan | 4 hr |
| Mar 15, 3:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Loudon | 32 min |
| Mar 15, 4:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1996Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.