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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Morristown, TN

October 24, 2001Bledsoe County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2001, 10:10 PM CDT for Bledsoe County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 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
Oct 24, 2001, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
Expired
Oct 24, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Bledsoe County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 24, 10:15 PM CDTThunderstorm WindCountywide, TNTrees and power lines down.
Oct 24, 10:25 PM CDTThunderstorm WindCountywide, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Oct 24, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 00:00Z on 2001-10-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 659 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 00:00Z on 2001-10-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 245 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
659 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1147 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
245 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
385 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.2
Supercell composite
5.8

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The text

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

445 
WFUS54 KMRX 250310
TORMRX
TNC007-250345-
/NEW.KMRX.TO.W.0001.250310-250345/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
1010 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BLEDSOE COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 1004 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF
  PALIO...OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PIKEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL CENTRAL BLEDSOE COUNTY AT 1020 PM CDT

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.

IF IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...LEAVE IT IMMEDIATELY AND GET INSIDE
A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

$$

LAT...LON 3563 8534 3545 8535 3544 8521 3568 8505

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 24, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBledsoe, Marion, Sequatchie60 min
Oct 24, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMorgan, Scott44 min
Oct 24, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton, Meigs, Rhea62 min
Oct 24, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXRoane52 min
Oct 24, 10:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCampbell25 min
Oct 24, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMcMinn34 min
Oct 24, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXAnderson, Knox32 min
Oct 24, 10:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXLoudon, Monroe39 min
Oct 24, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton, Marion48 min
Oct 24, 10:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXClaiborne, Union21 min
Oct 24, 11:03 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXMcMinn27 min
Oct 24, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBlount48 min
Oct 24, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXGrainger, Hamblen, Hawkins, Jefferson31 min
Oct 24, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXClaiborne, Hancock31 min
Oct 24, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXKnox31 min
Oct 24, 11:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBradley35 min
Oct 24, 11:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMcMinn, Polk42 min
Oct 24, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXSevier46 min
Oct 25, 12:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCocke, Greene28 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.