Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2000, 2:33 AM CDT for Bledsoe County, Rhea County, Tennessee. It was in force for 42 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
- May 25, 2000, 2:33 AM CDT (07:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bledsoe County, TN, Rhea County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2:45 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Pikeville, 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 3627 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 775 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
409 WUUS54 KMRX 250733 SVRMRX TNC007-121-143-250815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 333 AM EDT THU MAY 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BLEDSOE COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE MEIGS COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE RHEA COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 415 AM EDT(315 AM CDT) * AT 229 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF MELVINE...OR 11 MILES NORTH OF PIKEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MELVINE AROUND 240 AM CDT GRANDVIEW AROUND 355 AM EDT PEAKLAND AROUND 405 AM EDT TEN MILE AROUND 415 AM 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. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING. SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Meigs | 42 min |
| May 25, 2:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Roane | 33 min |
| May 25, 3:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Knox | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.