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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Morristown, TN

May 28, 2000Russell County, Virginia

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2000, 5:09 PM EDT for Russell County, Virginia. It was in force for 51 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 28, 2000, 5:09 PM EDT (21:09 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Russell County, VA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 28, 5:12 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, VA

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 28, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: 165 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

778 
WUUS54 KMRX 282110
SVRMRX
VAC167-282200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
509 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RUSSELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 506 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CLEVELAND...OR 9 MILES WEST OF LEBANON...
  MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LEBANON AROUND 520 PM EDT
  7 MILES SOUTH OF HONAKER AROUND 525 PM EDT
  ROSEDALE AROUND 530 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.

$$

LAT...LON 3703 8230 3684 8231 3685 8183 3677 8149
          3701 8146

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 May 28, 1:27 PM EDT, 3 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 1:27 PM EDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
127 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 2000

COLD FRONT IS HARD TO DISCERN BUT WOULD PLACE LOCATION BETWEEN BNA
AND CSV. AIRMASS AHEAD OF FRONT IS BECOMING QUITE UNSTABLE WITH MSAS
LIFTED INDICES ALREADY NEARING -6 ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLATEAU AND
NORTHERN CENTRAL OF THE VALLEY. GIVEN INCOMING UPPER LOW AND
ASSOCIATED COLD AIR ALOFT PULLING SOUTHEAST INTO THE SOUTHERN
APPALACHIANS WOULD EXPECT CONTINUED DESTABILIZATION OF THE AIR OVER
THE REGION. WILL CONTINUE WORDING OF SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE THIS
EVENING OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA...ESPECIALLY FOR
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHEAST TENNESSEE. GIVEN THE LOWERING WBZ
AND DRY AIR INTRUSION IN THE MID-LEVELS...MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS.

FRONT SWEEPS EAST EARLY WITH A GOOD DEAL OF COLD AIR ADVECTION
STRATU-CU MOVING INTO THE REGION FOR TONIGHT...MEMORIAL DAY AND
THEN PULLING OUT MONDAY NIGHT/EARLY TUESDAY.  ALSO...SOME LIGHT
SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE FOR THE NORTHEAST THIRD OF THE FORECAST AREA
FOR MEMORIAL DAY. SINCE I AM FORECASTING MORE CLOUDS FOR MEMORIAL
DAY WILL TREND TOWARD THE COOLER GUIDANCE VALUES FOR TOMORROW.

LARGE RIDGE BUILDS INTO THE REGION FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK AND
EXPECT DRY AND WARMER TEMPERATURES.  HIGHS FOR THE LATTER HALF OF
THE WEEK WILL BE IN THE LOWER AND MID 90S ACROSS THE VALLEY.

THE FOLLOWING NUMBERS ARE FOR COORDINATION PURPOSES ONLY:

FCSTID = 15
CHA   58  80  57  87 /  10   0   0   0
TYS   57  75  56  85 /  30   0   0   0
TRI   56  71  51  80 /  60  30   5   0
OQT   57  76  56  85 /  20   0   0   0

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 28, 3:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
352 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 2000

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

0330 PM    GATE CITY                 VA   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/00   SCOTT                          REPORTED BY DISPATCH
                                          TREE DOWN EAST OF GATE
                                          CITY ON HWY 619

0330 PM    KINGSPORT                 TN   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/28/00   SULLIVAN                       REPORTED BY DISPATCH
                                          DIME SIZE HAIL AROUND
                                          KINGSPORT

0335 PM    BLOOMINGDALE              TN   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/28/00   SULLIVAN                       REPORTED BY DISPATCH
                                          GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR
                                          BLOOMINGDALE

0347 PM    BLOOMINGDALE              TN   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/00   SULLIVAN                       REPORTED BY DISPATCH
                                          NUMEROUS TREES DOWN IN
                                          BLOOMINGDALE AREA

END
MEP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 8:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Lee, Scott	35 min
May 27, 9:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Washington, City of Bristol	50 min
May 28, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Scott	30 min
May 28, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Washington	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2000 Every 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.