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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Morristown, TN

May 2, 2002Wise County, City of Norton, Virginia

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2002, 3:24 PM EDT for Wise County, City of Norton, Virginia. It was in force for 51 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: May 2, 2002, 3:24 PM EDT (19:24 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2002, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties City of Norton, VA, Wise County, VA

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 2, 3:45 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Wise, 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 2, 1:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 262 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: 813 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -254 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 693 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMRX 021924
SVRMRX
VAC195-720-022015-
/NEW.KMRX.SV.W.0062.021924-022015/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
324 PM EDT THU MAY 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CITY OF NORTON IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
  WISE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 320 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR PARDEE...OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  NORTON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WISE AROUND 330 PM EDT
  6 MILES NORTH OF COEBURN AROUND 335 PM EDT

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.

$$

LAT...LON 3712 8282 3694 8281 3694 8236 3713 8244

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 May 2, 3:10 PM EDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 3:10 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
310 PM EDT THU MAY 2 2002

ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN CONTINUES AS COLD FRONT BARRELS THROUGH THE
FORECAST AREA LATER TODAY AND THEN STALLS OUT NEAR THE TN/GA STATE
LINE. THIS BOUNDARY WILL PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR A CONTINUED THREAT OF
PRECIP ESPECIALLY IN THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA THROUGH
EARLY SATURDAY. A SHORTWAVE WILL APPROACH THE AREA LATE FRIDAY/EARLY
SATURDAY WHICH WILL INDUCE OVER-RUNNING PRECIP OVER THE ENTIRE
FORECAST AREA. THIS FEATURE WILL MOVE RAPIDLY EASTWARD AND BE
ESSENTIALLY OUT OF THE AREA BY MID-DAY SATURDAY. TIME-HEIGHTS SHOW A
DEEP MOISTURE PROFILE FOR EARLY SATURDAY WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER
OVER 1.5 INCHES PROJECTED BY THE MESOETA FORECAST SOUNDINGS.

HAVE TENDED TO FAVOR AVN MOS FOR BOTH TEMPS AND POPS FOR DAYS 1-3.

FCSTID = 23
PRELIMINARY NUMBERS FOLLOW:
CHA   61  70  55  71 /  70  40  70  50
TYS   55  67  50  67 /  70  40  60  40
TRI   50  64  46  61 /  70  20  50  30
OQT   55  67  50  67 /  70  40  60  40

.MRX...
NC...NONE.
TN...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 208 ALL COUNTIES.
VA...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 208 ALL COUNTIES.

LCM

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 2, 2:50 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN, TN
250 PM EDT THU MAY 2 2002

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

0235 PM    POUND                     VA   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/02   WISE                           SEVERAL TREES DOWN NEAR
                                          POUND. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 9:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Lee	45 min
May 1, 9:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Scott, Wise, City of Norton	43 min
May 1, 10:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Scott, City of Bristol	48 min
May 1, 10:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Washington	52 min
May 2, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Wise	52 min
May 2, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Russell	19 min
May 2, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Wise	24 min
May 2, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Russell	23 min
May 2, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Scott	45 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.