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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Morristown, TN

April 8, 1998Cherokee County, North Carolina

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1998, 7:29 PM EDT for Cherokee County, North Carolina. It was in force for 61 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: Apr 8, 1998, 7:29 PM EDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 1998, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Cherokee County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 8, 7:29 PM EDT	Hail 1	Hiwasse Dam, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 8, 2:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 348 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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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 8, 2:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 2:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 8, 2:52 PM EDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 8, 4:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
445 PM EDT WED APR 8 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

250 PM     DEER LODGE                TN   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98   MORGAN

325 PM     HARROGATE                 TN   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98   CLAIBORNE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 5:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cumberland	68 min
Apr 8, 1:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Fentress, Scott	58 min
Apr 8, 2:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Fentress, Scott	60 min
Apr 8, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Morgan	66 min
Apr 8, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Claiborne	58 min
Apr 8, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Scott	48 min
Apr 8, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Morgan	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1998 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.