Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Morristown, TN

Issued

Jan 5, 1997, 2:16 AM EST (07:16 UTC)

Expired

Jan 5, 1997, 3:15 AM EST

In force

59 min

Issued by

NWS Morristown, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Hamblen County, TN, Jefferson County, TN

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:19 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.

994 
WUUS01 KMRX 050717 RRA
SVRMRX
TNC063-067-073-089-050815-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES TN
216 AM EST SUN JAN 5 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...HAMBLEN COUNTY...HANCOCK COUNTY...HAWKINS COUNTY
   ...JEFFERSON COUNTY
 
AT 215 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR FROM LEE
COUNTY...VIRGINIA TO KNOX COUNTY...TENNESSEE. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL
MOVE INTO HANCOCK...HAWKINS...HAMBLEN...AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES THROUGH
315 AM EST.  THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING
STRONG STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND 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
DONT 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 Jan 4, 8:34 PM EST, 5 hours 42 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
825 PM EST SAT JAN 4 1997

CD FNT CLOSE TO MODEL PROGS ATTM BUT STILL A LITTLE SLOW.  00Z POSITION
WAS NR CMI-MDH-JBR W/ CONVECTION MOVG ENE ARND 40KTS.  THIS AREA SEEMS
TO LINE UP RATHER WELL W/ THE NGM LOW LVL MSTR CONVERGENCE AND BELIEVE
THIS PRE-FRONTAL LINE WILL EXTEND FM NR BNA-MSL-CBM AT APPROX 05Z AND
INTO THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU ARND 07-08Z.  SO IT LOOKS LIKE TIMING ON
THIS EVENT WILL BE ENTIRELY AFTER MIDNIGHT.  CURRENT PRECIP TYPE LOOKS
GOOD AS BNA 00Z SOUNDING LOOKS RATHER UNSTABLE.  LOW TEMPS PROBABLY
COULD USE SOME UPWARD TWEEKING IN THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU ZONE AND
SRN VLY/SRN MTNS ZONES DUE TO LATER ARRIVArL OF COLD FRONT E TN.

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.