Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 10:05 PM EST for Hancock County, Hawkins County, Tennessee. It was in force for 40 min. 2 reports 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
- Nov 10, 2002, 10:05 PM EST (03:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2002, 10:45 PM EST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 10:28 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, TN | |
| Nov 10, 10:40 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Church Hill, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 5:50 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 289 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
- 316 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 840 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 400 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
548 WFUS54 KMRX 110305 TORMRX TNC067-073-110345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 1005 PM EST SUN NOV 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HANCOCK COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE HAWKINS COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE * UNTIL 1045 PM EST * AT 1001 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF MOORESBURG...OR 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF RUTLEDGE...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... TREADWAY AROUND 1010 PM EST KLONDIKE AROUND 1015 PM EST ROGERSVILLE AROUND 1025 PM EST SURGOINSVILLE AROUND 1030 PM EST CHURCH HILL AROUND 1040 PM EST THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM TAKE COVER IMEEDIATELY IF IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...LEAVE IT IMMEDIATELY AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. $$ DMG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 7:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | McMinn | 43 min |
| Nov 10, 7:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Claiborne | 48 min |
| Nov 10, 7:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Blount, Loudon, Monroe | 44 min |
| Nov 10, 7:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Blount, Knox | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 7:57 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bledsoe | 33 min |
| Nov 10, 8:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Sevier | 40 min |
| Nov 10, 8:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Morgan | 48 min |
| Nov 10, 8:19 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Roane | 41 min |
| Nov 10, 8:25 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Jefferson | 35 min |
| Nov 10, 8:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Anderson | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 8:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell | 64 min |
| Nov 10, 8:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Knox, Union | 60 min |
| Nov 10, 8:48 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Cocke | 27 min |
| Nov 10, 8:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Anderson | 36 min |
| Nov 10, 8:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Greene | 46 min |
| Nov 10, 9:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Claiborne | 53 min |
| Nov 10, 9:13 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Claiborne | 47 min |
| Nov 10, 9:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan | 32 min |
| Nov 10, 9:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Grainger | 47 min |
| Nov 10, 9:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Morgan | 40 min |
| Nov 10, 9:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hancock | 52 min |
| Nov 10, 9:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell | 48 min |
| Nov 10, 9:51 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell | 39 min |
| Nov 10, 9:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Roane | 22 min |
| Nov 10, 9:59 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Union | 46 min |
| Nov 10, 10:10 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Morgan, Roane | 35 min |
| Nov 10, 10:21 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Anderson | 39 min |
| Nov 10, 10:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Hawkins, Sullivan | 38 min |
| Nov 10, 10:41 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Hancock | 49 min |
| Nov 10, 10:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Marion, Sequatchie | 48 min |
| Nov 10, 10:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Union | 44 min |
| Nov 10, 10:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan, Roane | 39 min |
| Nov 10, 11:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton | 44 min |
| Nov 10, 11:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Hancock | 40 min |
| Nov 10, 11:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, Polk | 43 min |
| Nov 10, 11:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Blount, Claiborne, Grainger, Hancock, Jefferson and 5 more | 42 min |
| Nov 11, 12:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Monroe, Polk | 60 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.