Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Morristown, TN

Issued

Jan 5, 1997, 3:23 AM EST (08:23 UTC)

Expired

Jan 5, 1997, 4:30 AM EST

In force

67 min

Issued by

NWS Morristown, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Hawkins County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Washington County, TN

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:25 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.

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WUUS01 KMRX 050824 RRA
SVRMRX
TNC073-163-179-050930-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES TN
323 AM EST SUN JAN 5 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...HAWKINS COUNTY...SULLIVAN COUNTY...WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
AT 320 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR ACROSS
HAWKINS AND GREENE COUNTIES. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS
HAWKINS...WASHINGTON AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES THROUGH 415 AM EST.  STRONG
STRAIGHT LINE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED.
 
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 5, 3:15 AM EST, 8 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
315 AM EST SUN JAN 5 1997

A RATHER BUSY SUNDAY MORNING E TN.  NOT MUCH TIME TO SPEND LOOKING AT
MODELS BUT IT APPEARS CD FNT IS NR BNA-MSL.  MODELS BRING FNT INTO
CSV (PLATEAU) ARND 12Z AND THRU TRI APPROXIMATELY 15Z TIMEFRAME.  LOOKS
LIKE SOME SHOWERS WL LINGER OVR THE NRN/CNTRL VLY COUNTIES THRU THE
MORNING HOURS BEFORE ENDING.  MODELS AND CURRENT SATELLITE TREND
WOULD ARGUE FOR PARTIAL CLEARING E TN DRNG THE AFTERNOON HOURS (POSSIBLY
EARLIER OVR THE PLATEAU).

TEMP TREND WORDING IN ZONES LOOKS GOOD FOR TODAY HOWEVER ACTUAL NUMBERS
MAY HAVE TO BE ADJUSTED DOWN PER CURRENT OBS.  WOULD SHAVE A COUPLE DEGREES
FROM MOS MINS TONITE UNDER MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES DUE TO MDT CAA.  MON NOT
THE BEST OF DAYS EITHER UNDER MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES AS PACIFIC MOISTURE
STREAMS EWD AND CAA CONTINUES.  MOS GUIDANCE LOOKS REASONABLE FOR MON.

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.