Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2002, 2:27 PM EDT for Scott County, Virginia. It was in force for 33 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 2, 2002, 2:27 PM EDT (18:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2002, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Scott County, VA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 2:40 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Gate City, VA |
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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 252 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1269 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 2, 10:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 10:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 1030 AM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002 UPDATED FCST TO REMOVE MORNING FOG. REMAINDER OF FCST ON TRACK AS UNSTABLE AIRMASS REMAINS IN PLACE IN SUMMER WX PATTERN WITH RIDGE TO THE N AND W. UPR LVL FLO CARRIES WEAK IMPULSES SE INTO THE REGION. ALREADY A FEW TSRA ONGOING JUST N OF SW VA ZONES. FURTHER DESTABILIZATION WILL LEAD TO TSRA FORMING MAINLY IN HIER TERRAIN. MAXES SHOULD BE IN LOW-MID 90S MOST OF FA. NO OTHER CHANGES PLANNED FOR THIS AFTERNOON. .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 9:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Polk | 51 min |
| Jul 2, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Marion | 35 min |
| Jul 2, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter | 45 min |
| Jul 2, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hawkins, Sullivan | 41 min |
| Jul 2, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bledsoe | 50 min |
| Jul 2, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Greene, Washington | 51 min |
| Jul 2, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hawkins | 50 min |
| Jul 2, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke, Sevier | 44 min |
| Jul 2, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Jefferson | 45 min |
| Jul 2, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger, Jefferson | 44 min |
| Jul 2, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Knox | 45 min |
| Jul 2, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount | 40 min |
| Jul 2, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 40 min |
| Jul 2, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Washington | 40 min |
| Jul 2, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Russell | 40 min |
| Jul 2, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Russell, Wise | 44 min |
| Jul 2, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Wise | 41 min |
| Jul 2, 7:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Wise, City of Norton | 114 min |
| Jul 2, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 31 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.