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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Morristown, TN

May 25, 1998Scott County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1998, 12:19 PM EDT for Scott County, Tennessee. It was in force for 46 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
May 25, 1998, 12:19 PM EDT (16:19 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1998, 1:05 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Scott County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1998-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2174 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1998-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2174 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
774 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
5.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 25, 10:02 AM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 10:02 AM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 1:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXClaiborne, Hancock47 min
May 25, 1:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHawkins47 min
May 24, 9:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWashington63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.