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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this tornado warning at May 15, 2003, 3:47 PM EDT for Morgan County, Scott County, Tennessee. It was in force for 28 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
- May 15, 2003, 3:47 PM EDT (19:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2003, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 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), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 663 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
665 WFUS54 KMRX 151947 TORMRX TNC129-151-152015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 347 PM EDT THU MAY 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MORGAN COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE SCOTT COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 343 PM EDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR SUNBRIGHT...OR 10 MILES NORTH OF WARTBURG. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 6 MILES SOUTH OF SMOKEY JUNCTION AROUND 405 PM EDT THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3635 8467 3617 8472 3608 8439 3630 8433 $$ SP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan, Scott | 49 min |
| May 15, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan, Scott | 45 min |
| May 15, 3:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Anderson | 66 min |
| May 15, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Knox | 43 min |
| May 15, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Knox | 42 min |
| May 15, 4:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Knox | 27 min |
| May 15, 5:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Blount | 55 min |
| May 15, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan | 43 min |
| May 15, 5:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Knox | 37 min |
| May 15, 5:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Sevier | 51 min |
| May 15, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Loudon, Monroe | 37 min |
| May 15, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount | 30 min |
| May 15, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sevier | 33 min |
| May 15, 6:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Monroe | 42 min |
| May 15, 6:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Blount | 32 min |
| May 15, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Roane | 31 min |
| May 15, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Knox | 39 min |
| May 15, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount | 46 min |
| May 15, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sevier | 47 min |
| May 15, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Loudon | 43 min |
| May 15, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Greene | 40 min |
| May 15, 7:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Loudon | 36 min |
| May 15, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount | 29 min |
| May 15, 7:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Monroe | 41 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.