Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2003, 3:14 PM EST for Scott County, Tennessee. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2003, 3:14 PM EST (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2003, 3:45 PM EST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Scott County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 12:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
925 WFUS54 KMRX 192014 TORMRX TNC151-192045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 312 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SCOTT COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE * UNTIL 345 PM EST * AT 208 PM CST...SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF BIG SOUTH FORK NATIONAL RECREATION AREA...OR 17 MILES WEST OF ONEIDA. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF WINFIELD AROUND 330 PM EST IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3649 8497 3616 8442 3661 8423 3665 8490 $$ 17
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 10:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton | 49 min |
| Mar 19, 11:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | McMinn, Meigs | 33 min |
| Mar 19, 11:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | McMinn, Meigs | 25 min |
| Mar 19, 12:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | McMinn | 13 min |
| Mar 19, 12:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Loudon | 28 min |
| Mar 19, 12:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson | 49 min |
| Mar 19, 12:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Knox | 52 min |
| Mar 19, 1:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson | 18 min |
| Mar 19, 2:38 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Marion | 52 min |
| Mar 19, 5:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Polk | 44 min |
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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.