Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 1997, 6:19 PM EDT for Hawkins County, Tennessee. It was in force for 26 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
- Jul 4, 1997, 6:19 PM EDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1997, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hawkins County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1974 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMRX 042221 RRA TORMRX TNC073-042245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES TN 619 PM EDT FRI JUL 4 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST TENNESSEE ...HAWKINS COUNTY AT 620 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO WEST OF SURGOINSVILLE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE SURGOINSVILLE AREA BY 635. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM| SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cumberland | 45 min |
| Jul 4, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Meigs, Rhea | 65 min |
| Jul 4, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Roane | 25 min |
| Jul 4, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Knox, Loudon | 55 min |
| Jul 4, 5:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Jefferson | 38 min |
| Jul 4, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount | 64 min |
| Jul 4, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamblen | 25 min |
| Jul 4, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sevier | 65 min |
| Jul 4, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hawkins | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton | 65 min |
| Jul 4, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke, Greene | 62 min |
| Jul 4, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Monroe | 58 min |
| Jul 4, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, Polk | 66 min |
| Jul 4, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Hancock | 29 min |
| Jul 4, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger, Hawkins | 69 min |
| Jul 4, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamblen | 50 min |
| Jul 4, 7:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Hawkins | 38 min |
| Jul 4, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Greene | 63 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.