Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 1997, 1:33 AM EST for Bradley County, Tennessee. It was in force for 27 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
- Mar 29, 1997, 1:33 AM EST (06:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1997, 2:00 AM EST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bradley County, TN
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 10:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 1331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 11.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMRX 290636 RRA TORMRX TNC011-290700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES TN 133 AM EST SAT MAR 29 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST TENNESSEE ...BRADLEY COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A VERY DANGEROUS STORM MOVING INTO BRADLEY COUNTY. THIS STORM IS NEAR PINE HILL AND WILL MOVE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCED A TORNADO IN SOUTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY. 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 AVfAILABLE...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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 11:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Fentress | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 11:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson | 49 min |
| Mar 28, 11:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan | 21 min |
| Mar 28, 11:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan | 32 min |
| Mar 29, 12:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Knox | 53 min |
| Mar 29, 12:11 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Knox | 34 min |
| Mar 29, 12:17 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | McMinn, Monroe | 43 min |
| Mar 29, 12:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell | 49 min |
| Mar 29, 12:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamblen, Jefferson | 51 min |
| Mar 29, 12:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton | 63 min |
| Mar 29, 1:05 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Meigs, Rhea | 25 min |
| Mar 29, 1:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | McMinn | 33 min |
| Mar 29, 1:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Polk | 48 min |
| Mar 29, 2:01 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Polk | 29 min |
| Mar 29, 2:17 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bradley | 13 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.