Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2000, 10:52 PM EDT for Cocke County, Tennessee. It was in force for 38 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 14, 2000, 10:52 PM EDT (02:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2000, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cocke County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 11:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Bybee, 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 nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 290 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
- 2167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1011 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMRX 150252 SVRMRX TNC029-150330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 1052 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COCKE COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 1130 PM EDT * AT 1042 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BYBEE...OR 11 MILES EAST OF MORRISTOWN...MOVING SOUTH AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... NEWPORT AROUND 1100 PM EDT DEL RIO AROUND 1105 PM EDT HARTFORD AROUND 1115 PM EDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... WINDS UP TO 60 MPH...WHICH COULD PUSH OVER SHALLOW ROOTED TREES AND BREAK LIMBS OFF OF TREES ABOUT THE SIZE OF YOUR WRIST. HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER...OR THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! $$
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 14, 9:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 9:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 940 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000 RATHER BUSY HERE...HAVE BEEN WATCHING JKL/S BACK SINCE THEY HAVE RADAR PROBLEMS. JUST SENT OUT QUICK UPDATE TO RAISE POPS IN THE NORTH. THATS ALL FOR NOW. .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. LDW
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 14, 9:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
945 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
...COUNTY LOCATION....
0925 PM BIG STONE GAP VA 0.75 INCH HAIL
07/15/00 WISE REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO
DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR/SPOTTER IN BIG
STONE GAP AT 925 PM EDT.
0925 PM BIG STONE GAP 60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/15/00 WISE REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO
HAM RADIO OPERATOR
REPORTED MEASURED WIND
GUSTS TO 60 MPH IN BIG
STONE GAP AT 925 PM.Local storm report, Jul 14, 10:05 PM EDT, 47 minutes before
WWUS54 KMRX 150151
LSRMRX
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...COR
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
1005 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
...COUNTY LOCATION....
0925 PM BIG STONE GAP VA 0.75 INCH HAIL
07/15/00 WISE REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO
DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR/SPOTTER IN BIG
STONE GAP AT 925 PM EDT.
0925 PM BIG STONE GAP VA 60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/15/00 WISE REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO
HAM RADIO OPERATOR
REPORTED MEASURED WIND
GUSTS TO 60 MPH IN BIG
STONE GAP AT 925 PM.
GRCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 9:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hawkins | 39 min |
| Jul 14, 10:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sullivan | 43 min |
| Jul 14, 10:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger | 34 min |
| Jul 14, 10:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Greene | 44 min |
| Jul 14, 10:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamblen, Jefferson | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 10:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter, Unicoi, Washington | 61 min |
| Jul 14, 11:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke | 33 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.