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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Morristown, TN

November 10, 2002Lee County, Scott County, Virginia

NWS Morristown, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 5:30 PM EST for Lee County, Scott County, Virginia. It was in force for 45 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
Nov 10, 2002, 5:30 PM EST (22:30 UTC)
Expired
Nov 10, 2002, 6:15 PM EST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Lee County, VA, Scott County, VA

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 274 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2002-11-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2002-11-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 278 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-296 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
683 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
278 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
301 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 10, 6:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMorgan, Scott42 min
Nov 10, 6:26 PM ESTTornado WarningMRXMorgan, Scott49 min
Nov 10, 6:47 PM ESTTornado WarningMRXCampbell43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.