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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Morristown, TN

May 23, 2000Campbell County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 7:07 PM EDT for Campbell County, Tennessee. It was in force for 38 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, 7:07 PM EDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2000, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Campbell County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 222 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.

027 
WFUS54 KMRX 232309
TORMRX
TNC013-232345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 705 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  ROYAL BLUE...OR 10 MILES EAST OF ONEIDA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ROYAL BLUE AROUND 715 PM EDT
  CARYVILLE AROUND 720 PM EDT
  JACKSBORO AROUND 725 PM EDT
  6 MILES NORTHEAST OF DISNEY AROUND 730 PM EDT

SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD WITH THIS STORM.

THE SAFEST PLACE IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A STAIRWELL OR PIECE OF
STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR
PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

$$

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, 6:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Scott	24 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.