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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Morristown, TN

July 2, 2002Loudon County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2002, 10:19 PM EDT for Loudon County, Tennessee. It was in force for 41 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, 10:19 PM EDT (02:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2002, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Loudon County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 2, 10:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Lenoir City, TN

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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 2472 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1215 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 9 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, 9:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 9:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
905 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002

CONSIDERABLY MORE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING THEN
LAST NIGHT AS VORT MAXES ROTATING SOUTHWEST AROUND UPPER LEVEL RIDGE
OVER THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY AND NORTHEAST STATES CONTINUE. RUC MODEL
INDICATES SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WEST VIRGINIA AND SW
VIRGINIA DEVELOPING WITH ONE VORTICITY MAXIMUM IN WEST VIRGINIA AND
SECOND VORTICITY MAXIMUM MOVING SOUTHWEST ALONG NC/TN BORDER.
MESOETA 02/18Z RUN SHOWS STRONG VORTICITY LOBE ALONG THE
APPALACHIANS FROM WEST VIRGINIA INTO EAST TENNESSEE DURING THE
EVENING THAT WEEKENDS AFTER 03Z. STORMS ARE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHWEST
AND PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS. WILL KEEP CHANCE TO
SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE NIGHT. FOG MAY BECOME
DENSE IN AREAS THAT RECEIVED THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL THIS EVENING AND
OVERNIGHT.

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

TD

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 2, 8:10 PM EDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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

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

0740 PM    ELIZABETHTON              TN   WIND DAMAGE
07/02/02   CARTER                         TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          SPOTTER.

DAE

Local storm report, Jul 2, 8:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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

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

0630 PM    1 E NEWPORT               TN   WIND DAMAGE
07/02/02   COCKE                          TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          DISPATCH.

DAE

Local storm report, Jul 2, 8:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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

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

0835 PM    COUNTYWIDE                TN   WIND DAMAGE
07/02/02   LOUDON                         TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          DISPATCH.

DAE

Local storm report, Jul 2, 9:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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

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

0841 PM    MORRISTOWN                TN   WIND DAMAGE
07/02/02   HAMBLEN                        TREES DOWN OFF OF KIDWELLS
                                          RIDGE ROAD. REPORTED BY
                                          DISPATCH.

DAE

Local storm report, Jul 2, 9:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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

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

0840 PM    MADISONVILLE              TN   WIND DAMAGE
07/02/02   MONROE                         TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          DISPATCH.

DAE

Local storm report, Jul 2, 9:46 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

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

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

0900 PM    RUTLEDGE                  TN   WIND DAMAGE
07/02/02   GRAINGER                       NUMEROUS LARGE TREES DOWN
                                          IN AND AROUND RUTLEDGE AND
                                          COUNTYWIDE. REPORTED BY
                                          DISPATCH.

GRC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 8:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hamblen	49 min
Jul 2, 8:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Loudon	46 min
Jul 2, 8:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Monroe	42 min
Jul 2, 8:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Roane	48 min
Jul 2, 8:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Grainger	44 min
Jul 2, 9:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson	40 min
Jul 3, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Carter	48 min
Jul 3, 3:01 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Johnson	3 hr
Jul 3, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Unicoi, Washington	62 min
Jul 3, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Sullivan	38 min
Jul 3, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Greene	41 min
Jul 3, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Sullivan, Washington	45 min
Jul 3, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hawkins	64 min
Jul 3, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Greene	45 min
Jul 3, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Greene	26 min
Jul 3, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hancock	49 min
Jul 3, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Claiborne	48 min
Jul 3, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Union	52 min
Jul 3, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Knox	50 min
Jul 3, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson	64 min
Jul 3, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Loudon, Roane	62 min
Jul 3, 2:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Washington	3 hr
Jul 3, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Washington	43 min
Jul 3, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Scott	49 min
Jul 3, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Washington	39 min
Jul 3, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Wise	40 min

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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.