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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 292, NWS Morristown, TN

June 3, 1998Campbell County, Scott County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1998, 4:33 AM EDT for Campbell County, Scott 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 3, 1998, 4:33 AM EDT (08:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1998, 5:05 AM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Campbell County, TN, Scott 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
Jun 3, 2:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 206 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3179 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1434 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 6.0

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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 Jun 3, 2:35 AM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 2:35 AM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 11:46 PM EDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 3, 2:24 AM EDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 1:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Fentress	30 min
Jun 3, 2:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Morgan	45 min
Jun 3, 5:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Claiborne	34 min
Jun 3, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Johnson	34 min
Jun 3, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Sullivan	48 min
Jun 3, 7:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Sullivan	50 min
Jun 3, 7:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Hawkins	33 min
Jun 3, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Wise	17 min
Jun 3, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Russell	33 min
Jun 3, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Wise	48 min
Jun 3, 6:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Wise	48 min
Jun 3, 7:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Scott	51 min
Jun 3, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Lee	48 min
Jun 3, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Washington	49 min
Jun 3, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Russell	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1998 Every 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.