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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Morristown, TN

June 13, 1997Fentress County, Morgan County, Scott County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 9:31 PM CDT for Fentress County, Morgan County, Scott County, Tennessee. It was in force for 59 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
Jun 13, 1997, 9:31 PM CDT (02:31 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1997, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Fentress County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Scott County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1997-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 752 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1997-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 127 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
752 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1059 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
4.5

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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 Jun 13, 6:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 6:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
755 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997

ACTIVE NIGHT ACROSS THE TN VALLEY. A LINE OF SVR STORMS CONTINUE TO
MOVE ACROSS THE REGION WITH ANOTHETR LINE OVER MIDDLE TN. CONTINUE
CAT POPS FOR TONIGHT. TRAINING ACROSS SOUTHWEST VA/NE TN WILL
CONTINUE THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING. OVRALL...CURRENT FCST LOOKS
GOOD.

DH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXUnicoi58 min
Jun 13, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCarter, Johnson, Washington55 min
Jun 13, 7:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMcMinn, Monroe42 min
Jun 13, 9:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXRhea57 min
Jun 13, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMcMinn, Meigs67 min
Jun 13, 10:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMcMinn46 min
Jun 13, 11:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMonroe66 min
Jun 13, 11:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBradley, Polk59 min
Jun 13, 11:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBlount68 min
Jun 14, 12:17 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMRXMonroe4 hr
Jun 14, 4:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMRXMonroe4 hr
Jun 14, 7:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton68 min
Jun 14, 1:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMRXScott3 hr
Jun 14, 2:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXAnderson, Knox, Loudon, Roane68 min
Jun 14, 3:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBlount67 min
Jun 14, 3:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMcMinn, Monroe59 min
Jun 14, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXPolk63 min
Jun 14, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCocke, Greene, Hamblen64 min
Jun 14, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBlount, Sevier63 min
Jun 14, 4:34 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXSevier41 min
Jun 14, 5:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMRXCocke, Greene, Hamblen3 hr
Jun 14, 5:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMRXJefferson, Sevier3 hr
Jun 13, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWashington58 min
Jun 14, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCherokee60 min

Nearby

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

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.