Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 272, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1998, 2:18 AM EDT for Meigs County, Rhea County, Tennessee. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 1, 1998, 2:18 AM EDT (06:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1998, 2:50 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Meigs County, TN, Rhea 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 9:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 3629 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1064 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 5.1
- Supercell composite
- 21.7
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 Jun 1, 2:00 AM EDT, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 2:00 AM EDT, 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN 200 AM EDT MON JUN 1 1998 LITTLE TIME FOR AFD DUE TO SVR WEATHER. CD FRNT WILL MOVE EAST OF THE CWA THIS MRNG ALLOW CLOUDY SKIES THIS MORNING TO BECOME PARTLY CLOUDY THIS AFTERNOON. MAY NEED SOME EARLY MORNING POPS FOR SE TN/SW NC/ ERN TN MTNS...OTRW...A DRY FCST. MOSTLY CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS WILL ALLOW AREAS OF FOG TO DEVELOP TONIGHT...SOME LOCALLY DENSE. FNT WILL HANG UP JUST SOUTH OF THE CWA. WILL NEED TO WATCH OUT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF NIGHTTIME CONVECTION RIDING ALONG THE STATIONARY FRONT LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. FOR TUESDAY...PARTLY CLOUDY AND NEAR SEASONAL TEMPS. AS FOR TEMPS... PREFER THE FAN NOS... DH
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 1, 12:39 AM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
1239 AM EDT MON JUN 1 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1155 PM CLAIRFIELD TN WIND DAMAGE
05/31/98 CLAIBORNE SEVERAL LARGE TREES DOWN IN
CLAIRFIELD AREA AND 2 PLUS
INCHES OF RAIN IN SPEEDWELL
REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTERLocal storm report, Jun 1, 12:54 AM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
1254 AM EDT MON JUN 1 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1215 AM COUNTY WIDE TN WIND DAMAGE
06/01/98 CAMPBELL TREES DOWN COUNTY WIDE
REPORTED BY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
ALSO MINOR FLOODING ON
ROADWAYS
1250 AM RUTLEDGE TN WIND DAMAGE
06/01/98 GRAINGER 60 MPH WINDSLocal storm report, Jun 1, 1:24 AM EDT, 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
124 AM EDT MON JUN 1 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
110 AM ONEIDA TN FLOODING
06/01/98 SCOTT WATER IN YARDS...WATER
COVERED ROADS...AND MUDSLIDE
IN ONEIDA
1258 AM LUTTRELL TN WIND DAMAGE
06/01/98 KNOX 50 TO 60 MPH WINDS SOUTH OF
LUTTRELL NEAR THE
KNOX-GRAINGER COUNTY LINELocal storm report, Jun 1, 2:05 AM EDT, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
205 AM EDT MON JUN 1 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
157 AM SOUTH KNOX COUNTY TN FLOODING
06/01/98 KNOX ALCOA HWY. NEAR NAVY/MARINE
CORPS RESERVE CENTER WATER
ACROSS ROAD AND IMPASSABLE
REPORTED BY HAM OPERATOR
1230 AM LICK CREEK TN WIND DAMAGE
06/01/98 CAMPBELL TREES DOWN IN LICK CREEK AREA
1215-1230 REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
OFFICELocal storm report, Jun 1, 2:05 AM EDT, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
205 AM EDT MON JUN 1 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
157 AM SOUTH KNOX COUNTY TN FLOODING
06/01/98 KNOX ALCOA HWY. NEAR NAVY/MARINE
CORPS RESERVE CENTER WATER
ACROSS ROAD AND IMPASSABLE
REPORTED BY HAM OPERATOR
1230 AM LICK CREEK TN WIND DAMAGE
06/01/98 CAMPBELL TREES DOWN IN LICK CREEK AREA
1215-1230 REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
OFFICEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 10:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Campbell | 50 min |
| May 31, 10:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Claiborne | 62 min |
| May 31, 10:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Claiborne | 47 min |
| May 31, 10:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 63 min |
| May 31, 11:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell | 65 min |
| May 31, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Claiborne, Union | 60 min |
| May 31, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Fentress, Morgan | 60 min |
| May 31, 11:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 66 min |
| Jun 1, 12:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Campbell, Scott | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 12:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger | 61 min |
| Jun 1, 12:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson | 62 min |
| Jun 1, 12:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Claiborne | 47 min |
| Jun 1, 12:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell | 50 min |
| Jun 1, 12:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamblen, Jefferson | 65 min |
| Jun 1, 12:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Knox | 65 min |
| Jun 1, 1:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke, Sevier | 65 min |
| Jun 1, 1:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount | 65 min |
| Jun 1, 1:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Anderson, Knox | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 2:02 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Blount | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 2:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Meigs, Rhea | 30 min |
| Jun 1, 2:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | McMinn | 47 min |
| Jun 1, 4:24 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Blount, Knox | 3 hr |
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.