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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Morristown, TN

July 3, 2001Knox County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2001, 2:15 PM EDT for Knox County, Tennessee. It was in force for 30 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
Jul 3, 2001, 2:15 PM EDT (18:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2001, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Knox County, TN

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 3, 2:20 PM EDTHail 0.75Corryton, 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 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 240 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2001-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 986 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2001-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
986 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
845 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 Jul 3, 9:35 AM EDT, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 9:35 AM EDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
935 AM EDT TUE JUL 3 2001

QUICK ZONE FORECAST UPDATE ALREADY SENT...ELIMINATING THE MENTION OF FOG THIS
MORNING. AND...FOR THIS AFTERNOON...BUMPED HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE SOUTHERN
VALLEY TO NEAR 90 AND SOUTHWEST WINDS IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY.

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

DH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 2:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBradley, Hamilton42 min
Jul 3, 2:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXCarter3 hr
Jul 3, 2:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXPolk48 min
Jul 3, 4:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXSullivan3 hr
Jul 3, 3:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCherokee50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.