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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 1998, 4:52 PM CST for Fentress County, Tennessee. It was in force for 53 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, 4:52 PM CST (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fentress 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, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 152 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.
710 WFUS01 KMRX 032255 RRA TORMRX TNC049-032345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES TN 552 PM EST (452 PM CST) FRI APR 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EST (545 PM CST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST TENNESSEE ...NORTHERN FENTRESS COUNTY AT 453 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN PICKETT COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THERE IS A REPORT OF A TORNADO ON THE GROUND WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN NORTHERN FENTRESS COUNTY NEAR PALL MALL 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. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Apr 3, 1:25 PM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 1:25 PM CST, 3 hours 27 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, 3:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan, Roane | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Meigs, Rhea | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 3:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Knox, Union | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 4:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Grainger | 67 min |
| Apr 3, 4:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins | 53 min |
| Apr 3, 4:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Knox | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 4:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Fentress | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 4:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Blount, Knox | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 4:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Sevier | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 4:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Monroe | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 5:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Jefferson | 37 min |
| Apr 3, 5:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Cumberland | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 5:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Meigs, Rhea | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 5:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke, Greene | 65 min |
| Apr 3, 5:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sullivan | 65 min |
| Apr 3, 5:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 5:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Cocke | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 5:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | McMinn | 40 min |
| Apr 3, 5:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Washington | 60 min |
| Apr 3, 5:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan, Roane | 58 min |
| Apr 3, 5:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell | 58 min |
| Apr 3, 5:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cumberland | 26 min |
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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.