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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Morristown, TN

August 19, 2001Hancock County, Hawkins County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2001, 6:01 PM EDT for Hancock County, Hawkins County, Tennessee. It was in force for 44 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
Aug 19, 2001, 6:01 PM EDT (22:01 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 2001, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 19, 6:25 PM EDTThunderstorm WindTreadway, TNLarge limbs down.
Aug 19, 6:30 PM EDTThunderstorm WindRogersville, TNTrees down.

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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 289 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2001-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 537 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2001-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 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
537 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 Aug 19, 2:48 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 2:48 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
248 PM EDT SUN AUG 19 2001

MAIN PERIOD OF CONCERN THIS PACKAGE IS EARLY TONIGHT.  STRONG
CONVECTION IS CURRENTLY DEVELOPING ALONG THE COLD FRONT FROM
NRN PARTS OF THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU NE INTO ERN KY.  THE COLD FRONT
SHOULD WORK THRU MUCH OF THE FORECAST AREA BY 19/03Z...SO IN SPITE OF
VERY LOW MOS POPS...I WILL CARRY 20-40% POPS FOR THIS EVENING.
CAPES REACHING 1500-2500 J/KG AT THIS TIME...AND WATER VAPOR PICS
SHOW DRY SLOT APPROACHING...SO WILL INCLUDE MENTION OF SOME STORMS
MAY BE SEVERE.

MONDAY INTO TUESDAY...UPPER TROUGH LIFTS NE AND RIDGING STARTS TO
BUILD EASTWARD.  A DRY PERIOD...ALTHO SHORT RANGE MODELS DO WORK
PCPN AROUND THE UPPER RIDGE...INTO THE MID MISS VALLEY BY 12Z TUE.
THIS MAINLY WOULD AFFECT WRN TN...BUT I DID TREND BACK TO PARTLY
CLOUDY SKIES FOR TUE.  OTHERWISE...MOS TEMPS ARE VERY CLOSE AND
GENERALLY ACCEPTED THRU 60 HOURS.  PRELIMINARY TEMPS/POPS FOLLOW
BELOW FOR COORDINATION PURPOSES:

CHA  65/87/62/89/64  20/-/0/-
TYS  63/84/60/86/62  30/-/0/-
TRI  60/80/56/82/57  40/-/0/-
OQT  63/83/59/85/61  30/-/0/-

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

TG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 5:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXKnox44 min
Aug 19, 6:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMarion29 min
Aug 19, 6:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton66 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.