Tornado Warning 25, NWS Morristown, TN

Issued

Apr 16, 1998, 7:07 PM EDT (23:07 UTC)

Expired

Apr 16, 1998, 7:55 PM EDT

In force

48 min

Issued by

NWS Morristown, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Hancock County, TN, Lee County, VA

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

101 
WFUS01 KMRX 162308 RRA
TORMRX
TNC067-VAC105-162355-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
707 PM EDT THU APR 16 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HANCOCK COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE
  LEE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 755 PM EDT

* AT 705 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF TASWELL... MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  SNEEDVILLE BY 720 PM EDT
  EWING BY 715 PM EDT
  PENNINGTON GAP AT 725 PM EDT

GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS TAKE
SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

GH/TH

NWS Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Apr 16, 3:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
330 PM EDT THU APR 16 1998

ONCE AGAIN...VERY BUSY LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.  BIGGEST PROB O THE DAY
IS TORNADO WATCH...BUT AS EVENING COMES THIS WILL DIMINISH AND FLASH
FLOODING WILL BECOME THE THREAT OVERNIGHT.  RECOMMEND FFA FOR ENTIRE
CWA...THIS INCLUDES VA AND NC COUNTIES.  REASONING INCLUDES EXTREME
PW VALUES (1.5)...UNIDIRECTIONAL WIND PROFILE...AND THICKNESS DIFLUENCE
WHICH ALLOW FOR REDEVELOPMENT OF CELLS AND TRAINING OF ECHOES.

BELV POPS COULD BE RAISED TO REFLECT HEAVY RAIN OVER NIGHT.  ALL AREAS
ARE GOING TO RECEIVE MEASURABLE RAIN TONIGHT AND TOMORROW.

BB

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
124 PM EDT THU APR 16 1998

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

1240 PM    GRANDVIEW MOUNTAIN        TN   TORNADO
04/16/98   RHEA                           RHEA COUNTY DISPATCH
                                          REPORTED PUBLIC SIGHTING OF
                                          A FUNN\EL CLOUD OVER
                                          GRANDVIEW MOUNTAIN MOVING
                                          TOWARD SPRING CITY.

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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.