Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 8, 1998, 7:03 PM EST for Cherokee County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 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
- Jan 8, 1998, 7:03 PM EST (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 1998, 7:45 PM EST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherokee County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 7:12 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Andrews, NC |
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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 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 Jan 8, 2:45 PM EST, 4 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 2:45 PM EST, 4 hours 18 minutes before
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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 7:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Claiborne | 35 min |
| Jan 8, 9:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hawkins | 47 min |
| Jan 9, 11:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Hamilton | 5 min |
| Jan 8, 9:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 47 min |
| Jan 8, 9:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Wise | 47 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.