Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 1998, 4:16 PM EST for Meigs County, Rhea County, Tennessee. It was in force for 44 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, 4:16 PM EST (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Meigs County, TN, Rhea 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 2:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
064 WFUS01 KMRX 032119 RRA TORMRX TNC121-143-032200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES TN 416 PM EST FRI APR 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST TENNESSEE ...MEIGS COUNTY...RHEA COUNTY AT 415 PM EST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF PIKEVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE IN RHEA COUNTY BY 420 PM AND IN MEIGS COUNTY BY 430. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 4:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan, Roane | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 4:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 4:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Knox, Union | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 5:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 5:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Grainger | 67 min |
| Apr 3, 5:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins | 53 min |
| Apr 3, 5:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Knox | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 5:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Fentress | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 5:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Blount, Knox | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 5:52 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Fentress | 53 min |
| Apr 3, 5:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Sevier | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 5:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Monroe | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 6:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Jefferson | 37 min |
| Apr 3, 6:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Cumberland | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 6:23 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Meigs, Rhea | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 6:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke, Greene | 65 min |
| Apr 3, 6:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sullivan | 65 min |
| Apr 3, 6:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 6:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Cocke | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 6:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | McMinn | 40 min |
| Apr 3, 6:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Washington | 60 min |
| Apr 3, 6:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan, Roane | 58 min |
| Apr 3, 6:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell | 58 min |
| Apr 3, 6:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cumberland | 26 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.