Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1998, 5:11 AM EDT for Claiborne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1998, 5:11 AM EDT (09:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1998, 5:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Claiborne County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 5:15 AM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Speedwell, TN |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 266 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
- 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
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, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 2:35 AM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| 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, 4:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell, Scott | 32 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.