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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 6:26 PM EST for Morgan County, Scott County, Tennessee. It was in force for 49 min. 5 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, 6:26 PM EST (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2002, 7:15 PM EST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Morgan County, TN, Scott County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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, 6:30 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, TN | |
| Nov 10, 6:35 PM EST | Tornado F0 | Rugby, TN | |
| Nov 10, 6:40 PM EST | Tornado F1 | Elgin, TN | |
| Nov 10, 6:50 PM EST | Tornado F1 | Winona, TN | |
| Nov 10, 6:50 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Petros, 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 1061 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 668 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 408 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 410 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 9.5
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 6:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan, Scott | 42 min |
| Nov 10, 6:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Campbell | 43 min |
| Nov 10, 5:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Lee, 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.