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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 5:21 PM EDT for Blount County, Sevier County, Tennessee. It was in force for 54 min. 2 reports 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 23, 2000, 5:21 PM EDT (21:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Blount County, TN, Sevier County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 5:33 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Pigeon Forge, TN | |
| May 23, 5:33 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Maryville, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1129 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
828 WFUS54 KMRX 232121 TORMRX TNC009-155-232215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 521 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BLOUNT COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE SEVIER COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 520 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR SEYMOUR...OR 11 MILES EAST OF ALCOA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PIGEON FORGE AROUND 535 PM EDT ELKMONT AROUND 540 PM EDT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PITTMAN CENTER AROUND 550 PM EDT THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. $$ LAT...LON 3594 8382 3578 8393 3532 8299 3556 8283
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 55 min |
| May 23, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 39 min |
| May 23, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell | 59 min |
| May 23, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Knox | 54 min |
| May 23, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Sevier | 63 min |
| May 23, 5:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Knox | 42 min |
| May 23, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 44 min |
| May 23, 6:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Scott | 24 min |
| May 23, 7:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Campbell | 38 min |
| May 23, 7:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Anderson, Union | 26 min |
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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.