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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 345, NWS Morristown, TN

June 15, 1998Fentress County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1998, 12:08 AM CDT for Fentress County, Tennessee. It was in force for 32 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 15, 1998, 12:08 AM CDT (05:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1998, 12:40 AM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Fentress County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 15, 12:20 AM CDTThunderstorm WindJamestown, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 14, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

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 14, 1:40 PM CDT, 10 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 1:40 PM CDT, 10 hours 28 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 12:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCumberland47 min
Jun 15, 12:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMorgan49 min
Jun 15, 12:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXScott31 min
Jun 15, 1:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXAnderson, Roane61 min
Jun 15, 1:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCampbell61 min
Jun 15, 1:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXKnox, Union34 min
Jun 15, 1:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXClaiborne34 min
Jun 15, 1:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton31 min
Jun 15, 1:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBradley47 min
Jun 15, 2:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamblen, Hawkins, Jefferson35 min
Jun 15, 2:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXSevier35 min
Jun 15, 2:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHancock35 min
Jun 15, 2:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXPolk64 min
Jun 15, 12:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXScott47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.