Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Morristown, TN

Issued

Jul 3, 2002, 2:42 PM EDT (18:42 UTC)

Expired

Jul 3, 2002, 3:30 PM EDT

In force

48 min

Issued by

NWS Morristown, TN

Area

Whole counties

County Carter County, TN

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

036 
WUUS54 KMRX 031842
SVRMRX
TNC019-031930-
/NEW.KMRX.SV.W.0181.031842-031930/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
242 PM EDT WED JUL 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CARTER COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 330 PM EDT

* AT 239 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF WATAUGA DAM...OR 10 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF ELIZABETHTON...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  WINDS UP TO 60 MPH...WHICH COULD PUSH OVER SHALLOW ROOTED TREES AND
  BREAK TREE LIMBS ABOUT THE SIZE OF YOUR WRIST.
  HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER...OR THE SIZE OF QUARTERS.
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING.
  FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING.

SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY

AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT WHILE
LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA. $$

LAT...LON 3615 8200 3634 8205 3640 8220 3623 8217

DH

NWS Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 3, 10:10 AM EDT, 4 hours 32 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
1010 AM EDT WED JUL 3 2002

SATELLITE AND AREA OBSERVATIONS SHOW PATCHY FOG ACROSS SOUTHWEST
VIRGINIA AND NORTHEAST TENNESSEE WITH SOME AREAS OF SCT-BKN AC AND
CS AS WELL.  AREA SOUNDINGS AT BOTH BNA AND RNK SHOW AIRMASS REMAINS
QUITE UNSTABLE WITH FORECAST CAPES ABOVE 3000 J/KG AND LIFTED INDICES
AGAIN NEAR -8 GIVEN EXPECTED HIGHS NEAR 90 AND DEWPOINTS IN THE
UPPER 60S.

PER SPC DISC...PLENTY OF BOUNDARIES LEFT OVER FROM YESTERDAYS
CONVECTION...SO SCATTERED CONVECTION EXPECTED AGAIN TODAY. AREA IS
UNDER A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SOUNDINGS SUGGEST MAIN
THREAT WILL BE MARGINAL LARGE HAIL AND LOCALIZED DAMAGING DOWNBURST
WINDS.  ALSO...GIVEN K-INDICES IN THE UPPER 30S....TORRENTIAL RAINS
WILL BE A THREAT. SINCE STORM MOTION WILL BE SLOW...SIMILAR TO
YESTERDAYS...LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING A CONCERN AS WELL.

WILL LOWER HIGHS FOR THE WESTERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA DUE TO
MORE EXTENSIVE HIGH AND MID LEVEL CLOUDS.

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

DH

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.