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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Morristown, TN

November 9, 2000Unicoi County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 9, 2000, 6:30 PM EST for Unicoi County, Tennessee. It was in force for 45 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: Nov 9, 2000, 6:30 PM EST (23:30 UTC)
Expired: Nov 9, 2000, 7:15 PM EST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Unicoi County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 228 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KMRX 092331
SVRMRX
TNC171-100015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
630 PM EST THU NOV 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM EST

* AT 621 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF ROCKY FORK...OR 11 MILES SOUTH
  OF GREENEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS HAVE   
  BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  6 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROCKY FORK AROUND 640 PM EST
  BANNER HILL AROUND 700 PM EST
  UNICOI AROUND 705 PM EST
  LIMESTONE COVE AROUND 710 PM EST

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.
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING.
  FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING.

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 Nov 9, 3:43 PM EST, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 9, 3:43 PM EST, 2 hours 47 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
343 PM EST THU NOV 9 2000

ABBREVIATED AFD DUE TO ONGOING WEATHER.  COLD FRONT PUSHING INTO CWA
FROM WEST WITH LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.  TORNADO WATCH
CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF THE CWA THROUGH 8 PM EST.  PER MESOETA AND
AVN... WILL SEE WRAP-AROUND CLOUDS INTO NORTHEAST TN AND SOUTHWEST VA
INTO THE DAY TOMORROW...BUT EXPECT ALL FOLKS TO BE SUNNY BY TOMORROW
AFTERNOON. SHOULD HAVE AN UNEVENTFUL SATURDAY.

FCSTID = 29
CHA   41  56  33  61 /   5   0   0   0
TYS   40  55  32  58 /  30   0   0   0
TRI   42  50  31  57 /  70  20   0   0
OQT   41  54  31  57 /  20   0   0   0

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 9, 3:39 PM EST, 2 hours 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
339 PM EST THU NOV 9 2000

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

0240 PM    KIMBALL                        WIND DAMAGE
11/09/00   MARION                         REPORTED BY DISPATCH
                                          NUMEROUS TREES AND
                                          POWERLINES DOWN

Local storm report, Nov 9, 3:48 PM EST, 2 hours 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
348 PM EST THU NOV 9 2000

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

0300 PM    5 NW PIKEVILLE            TN   WIND DAMAGE
11/09/00   BLEDSOE                        REPORTED BY DISPATCH
                                          TREES DOWN ON ROAD

0315 PM    5 N DUNLAP                TN   WIND DAMAGE
11/09/00   SEQUATCHIE                     REPORTED BY DISPATCH
                                          TREES DOWN

0315 PM    EAST RIDGE                TN   WIND DAMAGE
11/09/00   HAMILTON                       REPORTED BY DISPATCH
                                          TREES AND POWERLINES
                                          DOWN

Local storm report, Nov 9, 4:29 PM EST, 2 hours 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
429 PM EST THU NOV 9 2000

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

330 PM     3 N BIRCHWOOD             TN   WIND DAMAGE
11/09/00   MEIGS                          REPORTED BY DISPATCH
                                          TREES DOWN ON BLYTHE
                                          FERRY ROAD OFF ROUTE 60
                                          NORTH OF BIRCHWOOD.

330 PM     12 NE DECATUR                  WIND DAMAGE
11/09/00   MEIGS                          REPORTED BY DISPATCH
                                          A TREE DOWNED ACROSS A
                                          POWERLINE CAUSING A FIRE
                                          ON RIVER ROAD NORTH NEAR
                                          TEN MILE.

330 PM     DAYTON                    TN   WIND DAMAGE
11/09/00   RHEA                           REPORTED BY DISPATCH
                                          SEVERAL TREES DOWNED
                                          WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS
                                          OF DAYTON AND ACROSS THE
                                          SOUTHERN PART OF THE
                                          COUNTY.

0340 PM    1 S SUNBRIGHT             TN   WIND DAMAGE
11/09/00   MORGAN                         REPORTED BY DISPATCH
                                          TREES DOWN ON HIGHWAY
                                          27.

410 PM     COUNTYWIDE                TN   WIND DAMAGE
11/09/00   BRADLEY                        REPORTED BY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
                                          NUMEROUS TREES DOWNED
                                          ACROSS THE COUNTY.

420 PM     COUNTYWIDE                TN   WIND DAMAGE
11/09/00   MCMINN                         REPORTED BY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
                                          NUMEROUS TREES AND POWERLINES
                                          DOWN ACROSS THE COUNTY.

420 PM     COUNTYWIDE                TN   WIND DAMAGE
11/09/00   ROANE                          REPORTED BY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
                                          NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
                                          ACROSS THE COUNTY.

END/

FERRELL/PROPST

The office that day

Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 9, 1:25 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Marion	50 min
Nov 9, 2:11 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Marion	34 min
Nov 9, 2:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Marion	25 min
Nov 9, 2:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bledsoe, Sequatchie	51 min
Nov 9, 2:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hamilton	40 min
Nov 9, 3:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Meigs, Rhea	31 min
Nov 9, 3:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Morgan, Scott	30 min
Nov 9, 3:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bradley, McMinn	35 min
Nov 9, 3:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Roane	35 min
Nov 9, 4:02 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson, Morgan, Scott	43 min
Nov 9, 4:02 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Campbell	43 min
Nov 9, 4:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Polk	39 min
Nov 9, 4:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Loudon, Monroe	49 min
Nov 9, 4:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Blount, Knox	38 min
Nov 9, 4:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Claiborne, Grainger, Union	46 min
Nov 9, 4:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Polk	45 min
Nov 9, 5:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Jefferson, Sevier	44 min
Nov 9, 5:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hamblen, Hawkins	47 min
Nov 9, 5:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hancock	47 min
Nov 9, 5:18 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Blount	27 min
Nov 9, 5:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Claiborne, Grainger	16 min
Nov 9, 5:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hawkins, Sullivan, Washington	48 min
Nov 9, 5:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hancock	48 min
Nov 9, 5:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Greene	48 min
Nov 9, 6:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cocke	27 min
Nov 9, 6:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Sullivan	46 min
Nov 9, 6:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Carter, Johnson	46 min
Nov 9, 6:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Washington	46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.