Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 11:59 PM EDT for McMinn County, Tennessee. It was in force for 46 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, 11:59 PM EDT (03:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 12:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County McMinn County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 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
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, 7:58 PM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 7:58 PM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute 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
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 11:14 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
TNZ014>018-038>047-070-073-074-140415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN 1114 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR EAST TENNESSEE..AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM PERDICTION CENTER HAS CANCELLED THE WATCH WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST TENNESSEE...AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. THE ATMOSPHERE IS STILL UNSTABLE AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN MOVING INTO THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS STILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS SO STAY TUNED TO LOCAL STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 11:15 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
TNZ014>018-038>047-070-073-074-140415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN 1114 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR EAST TENNESSEE..AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM PERDICTION CENTER HAS CANCELLED THE WATCH WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST TENNESSEE...AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. THE ATMOSPHERE IS STILL UNSTABLE AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN MOVING INTO THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS STILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS SO STAY TUNED TO LOCAL STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Unicoi | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 8:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter, Johnson, Washington | 55 min |
| Jun 13, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | McMinn, Monroe | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 10:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Fentress, Morgan, Scott | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 10:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Rhea | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 11:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | McMinn, Meigs | 67 min |
| Jun 14, 12:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Monroe | 66 min |
| Jun 14, 12:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, Polk | 59 min |
| Jun 14, 12:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount | 68 min |
| Jun 14, 1:17 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Monroe | 4 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:18 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Monroe | 4 hr |
| Jun 14, 8:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton | 68 min |
| Jun 14, 2:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Scott | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Knox, Loudon, Roane | 68 min |
| Jun 14, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount | 67 min |
| Jun 14, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | McMinn, Monroe | 59 min |
| Jun 14, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Polk | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke, Greene, Hamblen | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Sevier | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 5:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Sevier | 41 min |
| Jun 14, 6:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Cocke, Greene, Hamblen | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Jefferson, Sevier | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Washington | 58 min |
| Jun 14, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 60 min |
Nearby
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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.