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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Morristown, TN

May 23, 2000Scott County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 6:51 PM EDT for Scott County, Tennessee. It was in force for 24 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: May 23, 2000, 6:51 PM EDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Scott County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 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

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The text

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

346 
WFUS54 KMRX 232252
TORMRX
TNC151-232315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
651 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SCOTT COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 650 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR ONEIDA...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  NORMA AROUND 705 PM EDT
  SMOKEY JUNCTION AROUND 710 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.

$$

GH

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, 5:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Blount, Sevier	54 min
May 23, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Scott	44 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

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.