Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Morristown, TN

Issued

Jan 8, 1998, 6:22 PM EST (23:22 UTC)

Expired

Jan 8, 1998, 7:30 PM EST

In force

68 min

Issued by

NWS Morristown, TN

Area

Whole counties

County Monroe County, TN

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

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WUUS01 KMRX 082323 RRA
SVRMRX
TNC123-090030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES TN
622 PM EST THU JAN 8 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...MONROE COUNTY
 
AT 621 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH INTO SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY. THIS
STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE WITH STRONG WINDS.
RESIDENTS OF TELICO PLAINS AND MT VERNON ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

NWS Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 8, 2:45 PM EST, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
245 PM EST THU JAN 8 1998

DRY PUNCH CAME INTO MY CWA WITH A VENGENCE BRINGING LOTS OF SUN AND
SPRINGTIME TEMPS. JUST BEHIND FRONT NOW MOVG THRU E TN..LOTS OF
WRAPAROUND MOISTURE WL MOVE IN TON AS 500 MB TROF/VORT AXIS SWINGS
THRU W/CLDY SKIES. MODEL POPS OUT TO LUNCH. WOULD ONLY GO FOR LOW CHC
POPS. FLOW BECMS ZONAL FRI BEHIND DEPARTING TROF AND GOOD AREA OF NVA
MOVES IN.  FCST SNDGS SHOW LOW CLDS WL BE CLRG OUT IN THE EARLY AM IN
SE TN..ARND MIDDAY IN NE TN/SW VA. MID AND HI LVL CLDS ON THE INCREASE
FRI NGT AHEAD OF PACIFIC FRONT APPRCHG MS RIVER.  NO LOW-LVL
MOISTURE AS GULF WL BE SHUT OFF. WOULD GO FOR PTLY CLDY/PTLY SUNNY FOR
FRI NGT/SAT.

FWC TEMPS LOOK GOOD THROUGHOUT.

HSA

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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.