Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Morristown, TN

Issued

Mar 5, 1997, 10:04 AM EST (15:04 UTC)

Expired

Mar 5, 1997, 11:00 AM EST

In force

56 min

Issued by

NWS Morristown, TN

Area

Whole counties

County Scott County, TN

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:07 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 051506 RRA
SVRMRX
TNC151-051600-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES TN
1004 AM EST (904 AM CST) WED MAR 5 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 AM EST (1000 AM CST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...SCOTT COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE FENTRESS-SCOTT
COUNTY LINE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY
PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
 
THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE CITIES OF ONEIDA AND HUNTSVILLE BY ABOUT
1020 AM EST.
 
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
DON'T pDRIVE 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, 9:45 AM EST, 19 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
935 AM EST WED MAR 5 1997

STILL HAVE AFOS PROBLEMS...SO WILL LIKELY REMAIN UNDER DEDICATED
BACK-UP TO MEM MOST OF THE MRNG...IF NOT ALL DAY.  BNA/MRX RADAR SHOWS
A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACRS MID-TN INTO
NRN PLATEAU. RADAR SHOWS SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS BOWING OUT WITH
LOCALLY STG WINDS BEING REPORTED. BOTH BNA/MRX VWP SHOWS STG WINDS
ALOFT WITH GRIDDED DATA SHOWING GENERALLY UNIDIRECTIONAL WINDS
ALOFT THIS AFTERNOON...SO EXPECT STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE WILL
REMAIN A THREAT. ALSO...RELATIVELY LOW WBZ ARE CONTRIBUTING TO
PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. WE HAD A REPORT OF NICKEL SIZE HAIL ACRS
NRN FENTRESS COUNTY. WOULD SUGGEST INCLUDING...SOME STORMS MAY
PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS FOR THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS
EAST TENNESSEE AND CHEROKEE AND CLAY COUNTIES.

RADAR IS ALSO SHOWING SOME TRAINING OF CELLS WITH MRX WSR-88D
ESTIMATING UP TO ONE AN HOUR WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. GRIDDED
DATA SHOWS HIGH PWS (AROUND 1.2 INCHES ~ ABOUT 275 PERCENT ABOVE
NORMAL) EXPECTED ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA...SO FLASH FLOODING A
DEFINITE THREAT FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

HAVE A GOOD DAY...

DH

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.