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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 1996, 3:28 PM EST for Loudon County, Tennessee. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 1996, 3:28 PM EST (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 1996, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Loudon County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 211 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, 3:21 PM EST, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 3:21 PM EST, 7 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Mar 15, 12:36 PM EST, 2 hours 52 minutes before
TNZ083>087-099>102-151930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN 1236 PM EST FRI MAR 15 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CLEARED A PART OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 84 ISSUED THIS MORNING. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE. POLK...BRADLEY...HAMILTON...MONROE...MCMINN...RHEA AND MEIGS... STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Mar 15, 12:39 PM EST, 2 hours 49 minutes before
TNZ083>087-099>102-151930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN 1236 PM EST FRI MAR 15 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CLEARED A PART OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 84 ISSUED THIS MORNING. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE. POLK...BRADLEY...HAMILTON...MONROE...MCMINN...RHEA AND MEIGS... STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Local storm report, Mar 15, 3:15 PM EST, 13 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 11:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Monroe | 54 min |
| 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, 4:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke | 61 min |
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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.