Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Morristown, TN

Issued

Jun 4, 2002, 5:24 PM EDT (21:24 UTC)

Expired

Jun 4, 2002, 6:15 PM EDT

In force

51 min

Issued by

NWS Morristown, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Bradley County, TN, Hamilton County, 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.

800 
WUUS54 KMRX 042124
SVRMRX
TNC011-065-042215-
/NEW.KMRX.SV.W.0128.042123-042215/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
523 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BRADLEY COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE
  HAMILTON COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 521 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER HAMILTON AND BRADLEY 
COUNTIES...MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CLEVELAND AROUND 535 PM EDT
  HOPEWELL AROUND 540 PM EDT

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.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. 

$$

LAT...LON 3542 8520 3501 8538 3503 8476 3523 8471

DMG

NWS Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 4, 3:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
315 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002

CHANGES IN THE OFFING OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS IN TERMS OF TEMPS AND
PRECIP POTENTIAL. MODEL TIME HEIGHTS CONTINUE TO ADVERTISE A GRADUAL
INFLUX OF MOISTURE WITH TIME ESPECIALLY ABOVE THE BOUNDARY LAYER.
THE MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE AS THE SURFACE FRONT
APPROACHES SOMETIME EARLY THURSDAY. THERE WILL BE NO REALLY
SIGNIFICANT FOCUSING MECHANISM UNTIL THE FROPA...BUT THE PERSISTENT
INSTABILITY COUPLED WITH THE INCREASED MOISTURE SUGGESTS SCATTERED
CONVECTION WILL BE POSSIBLE PARTICULARLY DURING PEAK HEATING HOURS.
HAVE CONTINUED THE CHANCE POPS THROUGH THE SECOND AND THIRD PERIODS.

MAIN PRECIP EVENT WILL COINCIDE WITH THE FRONTAL PASSAGE HOWEVER.
THIS FEATURE IS DEPICTED AS PROVIDING THE FIRST WIDESPREAD PRECIP
EVENT IN QUITE A WHILE. QPFS OF NEARLY AN INCH ARE BEING GENERALLY
PROJECTING BY MESOETA IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SLOW-MOVING FRONT.
POST-FRONTAL HEIGHT FALLS ARE NOT PARTICULARLY DRAMATIC...BUT TEMPS
SHOULD FALL BACK TO NEAR CLIMATOLOGY BY THE END OF THE NEAR-TERM
PERIOD.

NGM/ETA/AVN MOS TEMPS ARE FAIRLY CLOSE AND APPEAR REASONABLE. WILL
GENERALLY FOLLOW THE MOS NUMBERS.

PRELIMINARY CCF FOLLOWS:
CHA   73  92  71  84 /  30  50  50  60
TYS   72  89  70  82 /  20  50  50  60
TRI   68  87  67  81 /  20  50  60  60
OQT   72  88  70  82 /  20  50  50  60

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

LCM

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN, TN
223 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002

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

0131 PM    OCOEE                     TN   .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/02   POLK                           REPORTED BY TVA.

0215 PM    OCOEE                     TN   .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/02   POLK                           REPORTED BY TVA.

GM

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.