Tornado Watch 95

Issued

Mar 5, 1997, 3:15 PM EST (20:15 UTC)

Expired

Mar 5, 1997, 9:00 PM EST

In force

6 hr

Issued by

the Storm Prediction Center

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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WWUS9 KMKC 051931
SEL5  
MKC WW 051931
TNZ000-NCZ000-060200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 95
STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
231 PM EST WED MAR 5 1997

A...THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR

   PARTS OF EXTREME EASTERN TENNESSEE                          
   PARTS OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA                     

EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING UNTIL 900 PM EST.

TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING
THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.


THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 100 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST
OF A LINE FROM 60 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF KNOXVILLE TENNESSEE TO
65 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF HICKORY NORTH CAROLINA.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. 
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
$$

C...TORNADOES AND A FEW SVR TSTMS WITH HAIL SFC AND ALF TO 1 3/4
INCHES.  EXTRM TURBC AND SFC WIND GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS.  A FEW CBS
WITH MAX TOPS TO 420.  MEAN WIND VECTOR 24050.

D...LN OF STG/SVR TSTMS IS ACLTG AS IT MOVES EWD ACRS ERN TN. 
CNVTN IS MOVG EWD INTO RGN WHERE AMS IS RPDLY DESTABILIZING IN
ASSOCN WITH NWD MOVG WARM FNT.  WNDS ALF ARE INCRG AS UPR TROF AND
SFC LOW INTSFY CREATING ENVIRONMENT CHARACTERIZED BY STG
DIRECTIONAL AND SPEED SHEAR...SPCLY IN LWR LVLS.  RADAR DATA CONTS
TO INDC SVRL LEWPS ALG THE SQLN SUGG PTNL FOR DMGG WIND GUSTS. 
PTNL FOR STM ROTATION WITH NRN END OF BOW ECHOES ALSO SUGS PSBLTY
OF ISOLD TORNADO DVLPMT.

E...OTR TSTMS...  CONT..WW 94..  PTNS OF NERN AL AND NRN GA BEING
MONITORED FOR PSBL WW WITHIN NEXT HR.

...WEISS

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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.