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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 306, NWS Morristown, TN

June 5, 1998Hamilton County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1998, 6:55 AM EDT for Hamilton County, Tennessee. It was in force for 45 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 5, 1998, 6:55 AM EDT (10:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1998, 7:40 AM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Hamilton County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 167 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 12 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 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
12 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-212 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
641 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

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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 5, 2:45 AM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 2:45 AM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
245 AM EDT FRI JUN 5 1998

AND THE BEAT GOES ON....LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER DAY OF WIDESPREAD CONVECTION
WITH ASSOCIATED HEAVY RAINFALL ACRS THE FA AS SFC BOUNDARY REMAINS IN
PLACE ACRS TN AND TWO DECENT S/WVS SHIFT E.  1ST ROUND APPEARING ON
RADARS TO THE WEST ACRS MID MS VLY REGION WHICH WL PROVIDE NUMEROUS
SHRA/TSRA AT BEGINNING OF 1ST PD WHICH WL LAST INTO MID/LATE AM HOURS
AND 2ND ROUND FOR THIS AFTERNOON AS NEXT WAVE MAKES ITS MOVE.  WOULD
EXPECT BEST CHC FOR HEAVIEST RAIN/SVR WX THREAT ACRS PLATEAU/CNTRL AND
SRN VLY/SRN MTN ZONES WHERE BEST INSTABILITY/MSTR CONVERGENCE WL EXIST
THRU EARLY EVE.  KIND OF LIKE CATEGORICAL POPS PROVIDED BY FWC GUIDANCE
FOR 1ST PD.  FLASH FLOOD THREAT STILL POSSIBLE TODAY IN SRN ZONES.

SYSTEM/FNT SHIFT E AND DROP SLOLY INTO SRN VLY/SRN MTN ZONES TONITE BUT
WOULD KEEP LKLY POPS GOING AS AM NOT CONVINCED THAT FNT WL ACTUALLY MOV
VERY FAR FM CURRENT POSITION AND ADDITIONAL VORT LOBES IDENTIFIED ON
MODELS TO PASS ACRS FA TONITE.
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LIKE SENARIO FM PREVIOUS PACKAGE FOR SAT ACRS FA BUT WOULD RAISE POPS
TO 40% SRN VLY/SRN MTNS AS BELIEVE FNT WL NOT BE FAR TO THE SOUTH AS
UPR LVL FLO BASICALLY PARALLELS FNT WITH YET ANOTHER S/WV EXPECTED IN
AREA DURING THE DAY.

FWC TEMPS NOT BAD 1ST TWO PDS BUT WOULD TREND CLOSER TO FAN MAXES FOR
3RD PD.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 5:23 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXCumberland3 hr
Jun 5, 6:51 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton49 min
Jun 5, 7:38 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXBradley, Polk2 hr
Jun 5, 7:38 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXHamilton2 hr
Jun 5, 9:06 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXSevier3 hr
Jun 5, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMonroe34 min
Jun 5, 6:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXMonroe3 hr
Jun 5, 7:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXKnox32 min
Jun 5, 7:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXGrainger32 min
Jun 5, 7:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXCumberland3 hr
Jun 5, 7:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamblen, Jefferson32 min
Jun 5, 7:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXSevier19 min
Jun 5, 7:26 PM EDTTornado WarningMRXJefferson, Sevier19 min
Jun 5, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCocke, Sevier40 min
Jun 5, 7:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXGreene, Hamblen, Hawkins35 min

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.