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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 107, NWS Morristown, TN

July 3, 2001Wise County, City of Norton, Virginia

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2001, 9:40 PM EDT for Wise County, City of Norton, Virginia. It was in force for 50 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: Jul 3, 2001, 9:40 PM EDT (01:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2001, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties City of Norton, VA, Wise County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 279 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: 1209 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 943 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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, 9:30 PM EDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 9:30 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 3, 6:14 PM EDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN, TN
614 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2001

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

0122 PM    5 NE DAYTON               TN   WIND DAMAGE
07/03/01   RHEA                           SEVERAL TREES REPORTED
                                          DOWN BETWEEN DAYTON AND
                                          SPRING CITY. REPORTED BY
                                          911 DISPATCH.

0220 PM    CORRYTON                  TN   .75 INCH HAIL
07/03/01   KNOX                           DIME SIZE HAIL COVERED
                                          THE GROUND IN CORRYTON.
                                          REPORTED BY T.V.
                                          WEATHERPERSON.

0300 PM    1 W ELIZABETHTON          TN   FLASH FLOODS
07/03/01   CARTER                         TWO BUILDINGS FLOODED WEST
                                          OF ELIZABETHTON. REPORTED
                                          BY DISPATCH.

0320 PM    2 SE ELIZABETHTON         TN   FLASH FLOODS
07/03/01   CARTER                         HIGHWAY 321/159 FLOODED IN
                                          SEVERAL AREAS WITH SOME
                                          DAMAGE DUE TO WASHOUTS.
                                          REPORTED BY DISPATCH.

0325 PM    ELIZABETHTON              TN   FLASH FLOODS
07/03/01   CARTER                         SEVERAL HOMES FLOODED IN
                                          ELIZABETHTON. REPORTED BY
                                          DISPATCH.

0440 PM    BRISTOL                   TN   FLASH FLOODS
07/03/01   SULLIVAN                       SEVERAL HOMES AND STREETS
                                          FLOODED. REPORTED BY
                                          DISPATCH.

0440 PM    COUNTYWIDE                TN   FLASH FLOODS
07/03/01   SULLIVAN                       SEVERAL HOMES, STREETS AND
                                          ROADS FLOODED ACROSS THE
                                          COUNTY. REPORTED BY
                                          DISPATCH.

0440 PM    BRISTOL                   VA   FLASH FLOODS
07/03/01   WASHINGTON                     SEVERAL HOMES AND STREETS
                                          FLOOED. REPORTE|D BY
                                          DISPATCH.

NOTE: CORRECTED TO PUT RHEA COUNTY EVENT IN PROPER SEQUENCE.

FERRELL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Campbell, Claiborne, Union	47 min
Jul 4, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hancock, Hawkins	47 min
Jul 4, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Grainger	52 min
Jul 4, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson, Morgan	46 min
Jul 4, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hamblen, Jefferson	39 min
Jul 4, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Knox	39 min
Jul 4, 4:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Sullivan, Washington	41 min
Jul 4, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cocke, Greene	65 min
Jul 4, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Blount, Sevier	65 min
Jul 4, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Carter, Unicoi	52 min
Jul 4, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Johnson	52 min
Jul 4, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Loudon, Meigs, Rhea, Roane	41 min
Jul 4, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bledsoe	41 min
Jul 4, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	McMinn, Monroe	58 min
Jul 4, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hamilton, Marion, Sequatchie	67 min
Jul 4, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bradley	53 min
Jul 4, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Polk	66 min
Jul 4, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Lee	45 min
Jul 4, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cherokee, Clay	66 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2001 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.