Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Morristown, TN

Issued

Mar 5, 1997, 7:38 AM CST (13:38 UTC)

Expired

Mar 5, 1997, 8:30 AM CST

In force

52 min

Issued by

NWS Morristown, TN

Area

Whole counties

County Fentress County, TN

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:39 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 051340 RRA
SVRMRX
TNC049-051430-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES TN
838 AM EST (738 AM CST) WED MAR 5 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 AM EST (830 AM CST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...FENTRESS COUNTY
 
AT 838 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN FENTRESS COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YO.UR 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 Mar 5, 2:45 AM CST, 4 hours 53 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
850 PM EST TUE MAR 4 1997

RUNNING QUITE LATE WITH AFD...SORRY ABOUT THAT BUT OUR MIGHTY
AFOS HAS BEEN MISBEHAVING THIS EVENING. HARD CRASHES ABOUT EVERY 15
MINUTES...AND MOST RECENTLY WOULD NOT EVEN STAY UP FOR 5 MINUTES.
THIS HAS LIKELY AFFECTED ANY ASOS OBS THAT USE OUR PACE SYSTEM TO
ENTER AFOS. RECENTLY REBOOTED BOTH BEP AND FEP SO WILL SEE IF THAT
HAS HELPED MATTERS AT ALL. AFOS JUST CRASHED WHILE WRITING THIS AFD
SO PERHAPS EL TECH ON THE WAY WILL HAVE THE SOLUTION.

WEATHER WISE...STILL VERY TRANQUIL AND AWAITING APCH OF NEXT SYSTEM.
CURRENTLY ONLY HAVE TWO RIVERS ABOVE FLOOD STAGE AS CLINCH RIVER
AT SPEERS FERRY (SCOTT CO VA) DROPPED BELOW FLOOD STAGE OF 18 FT JUST
AFTER OUR FLOOD STATEMENT WAS ISSUED AROUND 6PM. AGREE WITH DAY SHIFT
THAT WET GROUND...EVEN LARGE PONDS OF WATER PREVAIL...SO ANY RAINFALL
TOMORROW IS CERTAINLY UNWELCOMED AND COULD HAVE AN AFFECT ON SMALLER
CREEKS AND STREAMS. SPS FROM MEM EARLIER HAS HIGHLIGHTED THE POTENTIAL
FOR FLOODING WED SO PERHAPS WE COULD LET MIDNIGHT SHIFT WATCH SYSTEM
DEVELOP A BIT...VIEW 00Z MODEL DATA...AND THEN DECIDE IF WE ALSO NEED
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR OUR TN AND NC COUNTIES.  #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.