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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Morristown, TN

April 15, 1998Russell County, Virginia

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1998, 8:53 PM EDT for Russell County, Virginia. It was in force for 47 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 15, 1998, 8:53 PM EDT (00:53 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 1998, 9:40 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Russell County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: 19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 15, 8:15 PM EDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 15, 8:15 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 15, 8:50 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 16, 10:02 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Cumberland, Fentress, Morgan	63 min
Apr 16, 10:30 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Anderson, Scott	65 min
Apr 16, 10:33 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Claiborne, Grainger, Hancock	4 hr
Apr 16, 10:33 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Cumberland, Fentress, Morgan, Scott	4 hr
Apr 16, 10:33 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Anderson, Campbell, Union	4 hr
Apr 16, 12:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Rhea	33 min
Apr 16, 1:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Monroe	46 min
Apr 16, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Claiborne	47 min
Apr 16, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hancock	46 min
Apr 16, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hamilton	61 min
Apr 16, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bradley, McMinn, Meigs	63 min
Apr 16, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Rhea	63 min
Apr 16, 5:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Meigs, Rhea	33 min
Apr 16, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Sullivan	46 min
Apr 16, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Loudon, Roane	64 min
Apr 16, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	McMinn, Polk	61 min
Apr 16, 5:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Polk	63 min
Apr 16, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson, Knox	65 min
Apr 16, 6:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Monroe	45 min
Apr 16, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cumberland	1 min
Apr 16, 6:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cumberland	57 min
Apr 16, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Grainger, Union	58 min
Apr 16, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Fentress, Morgan	63 min
Apr 16, 6:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Cumberland	62 min
Apr 16, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Monroe	31 min
Apr 16, 6:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Morgan	66 min
Apr 16, 6:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Claiborne	67 min
Apr 16, 7:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Hancock	48 min
Apr 16, 7:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Campbell	33 min
Apr 16, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bradley, Hamilton	62 min
Apr 16, 7:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Union	37 min
Apr 16, 7:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Anderson	35 min
Apr 16, 7:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Grainger	34 min
Apr 16, 7:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Scott	32 min
Apr 16, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Campbell	65 min
Apr 16, 7:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Anderson, Union	47 min
Apr 16, 7:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Grainger	47 min
Apr 16, 7:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Claiborne	47 min
Apr 16, 10:33 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Wise	4 hr
Apr 16, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Lee	64 min
Apr 16, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Scott	47 min
Apr 16, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Washington	64 min
Apr 16, 7:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Lee	65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.