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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Morristown, TN

July 2, 2002Cherokee County, North Carolina

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2002, 2:44 PM EDT for Cherokee County, North Carolina. It was in force for 31 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 2, 2002, 2:44 PM EDT (18:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2002, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Cherokee County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 2133 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 913 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, 4 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 10:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 14 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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 2, 2:38 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN, TN
238 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002

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

0235 PM    2 E MT CARMEL             TN   .75 INCH HAIL
07/02/02   HAWKINS                        REPORTED BY DISPATCH.

0235 PM    1 W KINGSPORT             TN   .75 INCH HAIL
07/02/02   SULLIVAN                       REPORTED BY DISPATCH.

DAE

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, 2:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Scott	33 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.