Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 392, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1998, 2:30 PM EDT for Carter County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 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 24, 1998, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1998, 3:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carter 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 24, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1072 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 24, 9:38 AM EDT, 4 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 9:38 AM EDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sullivan | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sullivan | 35 min |
| Jun 24, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter | 33 min |
| Jun 24, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Washington | 34 min |
| Jun 24, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Greene, Hawkins | 33 min |
| Jun 24, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Greene, Hawkins | 62 min |
| Jun 24, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter, Sullivan, Washington | 63 min |
| Jun 24, 5:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Sullivan, Washington | 4 hr |
| Jun 24, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Johnson | 64 min |
| Jun 24, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Greene, Hamblen, Hawkins | 63 min |
| Jun 24, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke | 64 min |
| Jun 24, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Jefferson, Sevier | 66 min |
| Jun 24, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Wise | 33 min |
| Jun 24, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Wise | 55 min |
| Jun 24, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Russell, Scott | 63 min |
| Jun 24, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Washington | 63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.