Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Morristown, TN

Issued

Jul 6, 2000, 4:12 PM CDT (21:12 UTC)

Expired

Jul 6, 2000, 5:15 PM CDT

In force

63 min

Issued by

NWS Morristown, TN

Area

Whole counties

County Marion County, TN

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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WUUS54 KMRX 062112
SVRMRX
TNC115-062215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
412 PM CDT THU JUL 6 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MARION COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 402 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR GRIFFITH CREEK...OR 13 MILES WEST OF
  DUNLAP...MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WHITWELL AROUND 420 PM CDT
  MARTIN SPRINGS AROUND 425 PM CDT
  6 MILES EAST OF JASPER AROUND 435 PM CDT
  HALETOWN (GUILD) AROUND 445 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  WINDS UP TO 70 MPH...WHICH COULD PUSH OVER SHALLOW ROOTED TREES...
  AND DAMAGE CHIMNEYS AND TV ANTENNAS.
  HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER...OR THE SIZE OF QUARTERS.
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING.
  FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING.

$$

LAT...LON 3537 8552 3531 8573 3467 8553 3476 8521

NWS Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 6, 2:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
340 PM EDT THU JUL 6 2000

SOLAR POWERED CONVECTION DEVELOPING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER
CUMBERLAND PLATEAU...MOVING SOUTHEAST WITH RIDGE FLOW.  SOME STORMS
APPEAR VERY STRONG...MERGING OVER MIDDLE TENNESSEE.  EXPERIENCE
PAST COUPLE OF DAYS SAYS THESE WILL NOT PRODUCE HAIL...BUT
BORDERLINE SEVERE WET MICROBURSTS AND BODACIOUS RAINFALL.  SOME
STREET/SMALL STREAM FLOODING LIKELY UNDER PARTICULAR CELLS.

BELIEVE NGM HAS BEST HANDLE ON THINGS.  AM LOOKING AT RIDGE OVER MS
VALLEY BUILDING OVER NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS WITH WEAK SHORT WAVES
MAKING IT DIRTIER BY THE HOUR.  BELIEVE PARTLY CLOUDY MOST DAY TIME
PERIODS IS BEST WORDING. MOSTLY CLEAR AT NIGHT.  BACK DOOR FRONT
MAKES HALF-HEARTED ATTEMPT TO ENTER CWA FROM NORTHEAST...BUT AT RNK
POINTS OUT...IT'S MOSTLY A DEWPOINT GRADIENT WITH SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR
AT SURFACE.  MAJOR DRYING AT MID LEVELS WITH WARMING TREND THERE AS
WELL WILL PRODUCE CAP THROUGH WEEKEND.  TOOK OUT ALL POPS THROUGH
MONDAY.

TEMPS FROM PREVIOUS PACKAGE LOOK OK FOR MOST PART. MADE SOME MINOR
ADJUSTMENTS TO WORDING MAINLY BECAUSE OF BACK DOOR FRONT.  WINDS OK
WITH WEAK "COLD" AIR WEDGE COMING FROM NORTHEAST DRIVING DRAINAGE
PATTERN.

FCSTID = 13
CHA   70  92  68  93 /   0   0   0   0
TYS   70  90  64  90 /   0   0   0   0
TRI   68  85  60  86 /   0   0   0   0
OQT   70  90  64  90 /   0   0   0   0

.MRX...
NC...NONE.
TN...NONE.
VA...NONE.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.