Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1998, 8:16 PM EST for Clay County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 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
- Apr 3, 1998, 8:16 PM EST (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 8:45 PM EST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, NC
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 6:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 2522 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 151 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 676 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 34.9
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 Apr 3, 2:25 PM EST, 5 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 2:25 PM EST, 5 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN 225 PM EST FRI APR 3 1998 WL NEED TO BE BRIEF AS TSTMS ARE QUICKLY FIRING UP AND SITUATION WL CONT TO DVLP RAPIDLY. TOR WATCH NOW IN EFFECT TIL 01Z FOR PLATEAU/SE TN/WRN VALLEY COUNTIES. SVR WX LIKELY AS NMRS INGREDIENTS COMING TGTHR FOR LARGE OUTBREAK. NOT MUCH CHG FM 00Z MODELS XCPT THAT ETA IS NOW A BIT FASTER AND MORE IN LINE W/NGM. SFC LOW WL RACE DUE E ALONG KY/TN BRDR THIS EVE W/COLD FNT XTNDG S FM LOW. XPCT FROPA IN CWA ARND 03-06Z. SOME LINGERING LGT RAIN PSBL IN NE TN/SW VA THRU SAT MORN..AND INTO EARLY AFTN IN SW VA. FCST SNDGS INDICATE SOME BRKS PSBL IN SE TN/SW NC. RIDGING SFC & ALOFT SAT NGT & SUN ACRS CWA WL DRY THINGS OUT AND CLR OUT THE CLDS. XPCTG MSTLY CLR SAT NGT..MSTLY SUNNY SUNDAY. FWC TEMPS LOOK GOOD THRU THE PD. HSA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 7:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, McMinn, Monroe, Polk | 65 min |
| Apr 3, 7:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Meigs, Rhea | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 7:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton | 30 min |
| Apr 3, 7:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Johnson | 25 min |
| Apr 3, 7:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 7:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 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.