Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 61, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 1998, 8:02 PM EDT for Carter County, Johnson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 63 min. 4 reports 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
- Jun 3, 1998, 8:02 PM EDT (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1998, 9:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carter County, TN, Johnson County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 8:15 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Buladeen, TN | |
| Jun 3, 8:17 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Shady Vly, TN | |
| Jun 3, 8:20 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Doeville, TN | |
| Jun 3, 8:49 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Elizabethton, TN |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 1245 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1770 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
297 WFUS01 KMRX 040004 RRA TORMRX TNC019-091-171-179-040105- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN 802 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CARTER COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE JOHNSON COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE UNICOI COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 905 PM EDT * AT 800 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF TORNADIC THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM SURGOINSVILLE TN TO DAMASCUS VA... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MOUNTAIN CITY AT 810 PM EDT ELIZABETHTON AT 815 PM EDT JOHNSON CITY AT 815 PM EDT ERWIN AT 820 PM EDT IF YOU ARE IN A CAR...GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING AS A LAST RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
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 Jun 3, 8:00 PM EDT, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 8:00 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN 800 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1998 A LITTLE BUSY WITH TORNADO WARNINGS AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SUFFICE IT TO SAY THAT THE MODELS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT THAT SFC BOUNDARY WILL HANG AROUND UFN WITH SHORTWAVES LIFTING OUT OF SW UPR LOW. PW'S IN THE THE 1.6 TO 1.8 RANGE THU AND FRI AS FOCUS BECOME HEAVY RAIN/FF THREAT. THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS LOOKS LIKE UNSETTLED PERIODS INBETWEEN THE OUTBREAKS OF SEVERE/HAZARDOUS WEATHER. FORECASTS LOOK FINE...AS LONG AS PCPN IS LIKELY THU INTO FRI WITH MENTION OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH PERIOD. BELV WILL NEED FFA ON THU...BUT SUGGEST WAITING FOR LATER SHIFT TO DO THAT. ALREADY SFC MOISTURE FLUX CONVERGENCE IN SE MO IS INCREASING RAPIDLY ALONG FRONT...IN PREPARATION FOR NEXT SHORT WAVE TO BRING IT THIS WAY. BOYD...MRX
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:35 PM EDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before
TNZ012>018-035>047-066>074-VAZ001-002-005-006-008-040140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN 234 PM EDT (134 PM CDT) WED JUN 3 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE NORTHERN CUMBERLAND PLATEAU..NORTHEAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING... A STATIONARY FRONT EXTENDS EAST TO WEST ALONG THE BORDER OF TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY. A DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ALONG THIS FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE AIRMASS IN THE VICINITY OF THE FRONT IS VERY UNSTABLE. THE DISTURBANCE IS TRIGGERING THUNDERSTORMS IN KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING INTO THE NORTHERN CUMBERLAND PLATEAU..NORTHEAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. DUE TO THE INSTABLILITY..SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE FROM DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS ANY STORM THAT PRODUCES HAIL 3/4 INCH (DIME-SIZE) OR LARGER..AND/OR WINDS OF 58 MPH OR HIGHER. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING..AND BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. HSA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 8:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Unicoi, Washington | 63 min |
| Jun 3, 8:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Carter, Johnson | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 10:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Johnson, Sullivan | 60 min |
| Jun 4, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 2:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Johnson, Sullivan | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Carter, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Hawkins | 6 hr |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.