Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Morristown, TN

Issued

Jun 2, 1997, 2:18 PM EDT (18:18 UTC)

Expired

Jun 2, 1997, 3:00 PM EDT

In force

42 min

Issued by

NWS Morristown, TN

Area

Whole counties

County Greene County, TN

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

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.

000 
TTAA00 KMRX 021819 RRA
SVRMRX
TNC059-021900-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES TN
218 PM EDT MON JUN 2 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...GREENE COUNTY
 
AT 218PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF GREENEVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING
NORTH AT 15 MPH AND MAY PRODUCE DIME TO NICKLE SIZE HAIL.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

NWS Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 2, 9:26 AM EDT, 4 hours 52 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
925 AM EDT MON JUN 2 1997

SEVERE STORMS THUS FAR CONFINED TO AREAS JUST E OF MY CWA...WHERE
UPSLOPE HAS BEEN PROVIDING EXTRA LIFT.  STORMS CLIPPING NE TIP OF
TN HAVE BEEN WEAKENING PER MRX 88D.  MODIFIED BNA AND RNK SOUNDINGS
SUGGEST MUCH BETTER CAPE THAN 00Z MODELS PROGD...SOMEWHAT ON THE ORDER
OF 1200 (BNA) TO 1800 (RNK) J/KG.  COLD POOL ALOFT WILL BE RIGHT ON
TOP OF OLE SMOKY TO FURTHER HELP DESTABLILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE THIS
AFTN...AND CREATE A VERY LOW VIL THRESHOLD OF PRBLY UPR 30S OR SO.
STLT PICS ALSO SHOW A SLUG OF MID LVL MOISTURE HEADED OUR WAY AS WELL.
WINDS ALOFT NOT VERY STG FOR MY AREA SO SHEAR IS LIMITED.  CONTD
UPSLOPE FOR NRN MTNS AND SPOTTY AREAS OF CONVERGENCE ELSW DUE TO
TERRAIN.  ALSO...AS UPR LOW WOBBLES ESE APPRS THAT WEAK SFC TROF WILL
LIE ACROSS WRN PARTS OF CWA...ESPECIALLY PLATEAU...AND PROVIDE LO LVL
CONVERGENCE/BETTER COVERAGE.

THUS SEEMS THAT LOWEST POPS SHOULD BE ACROSS MOST OF VALLEY COUNTIES
...PERHAPS SCTRD WITH 50% POPS...AND KEEP LIKELY POPS ELSW.  CURRENTLY
BETTER THAN 30% COVERAGE OVER SWRN VA...SO CRW MIGHT CONSIDER SLGTLY
HIGHER POPS IN ANY UPDATES.  OTRW...MAX TEMPS APPR WITHIN REACH GIVEN
JUST A FEW BREAKS OF SUNSHINE.   #10

TG

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.