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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 2004, 3:44 PM EDT for Polk County, Tennessee. It was in force for 46 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2004, 3:44 PM EDT (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2004, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Polk County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 4:20 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Sw Ducktown, TN | TWO TREES DOWN ON HIGHWAY 64 NEAR OCOEE DAM NUMBER 4 ON OCOEE RIVER. |
| Jul 14, 4:20 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Sw Ducktown, TN | TWO TREES DOWN ON HIGHWAY 64 NEAR OCOEE DAM NUMBER 4 ON OCOEE RIVER. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 2332 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KMRX 141944
TORMRX
TNC139-142030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
344 PM EDT WED JUL 14 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
POLK COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE
* UNTIL 430 PM EDT
* AT 339 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
ARCHVILLE...OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BENTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30
MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
OCOEE DAM NUMBER 3 AROUND 350 PM EDT
DUCKTOWN AROUND 355 PM EDT
COPPERHILL AROUND 405 PM EDT
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.
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.
LAT...LON 3524 8450 3502 8476 3465 8426 3495 8430
3522 8432
$$
DHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 10:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan, Scott | 29 min |
| Jul 13, 11:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell, Roane | 29 min |
| Jul 13, 11:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Rhea, Sequatchie | 41 min |
| Jul 13, 11:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell, Roane | 19 min |
| Jul 13, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Marion, Meigs | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 11:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Loudon | 41 min |
| Jul 13, 11:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Knox, Union | 38 min |
| Jul 13, 11:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Monroe, Polk | 41 min |
| Jul 14, 12:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger, Jefferson | 38 min |
| Jul 14, 12:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sevier | 44 min |
| Jul 14, 12:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, Polk | 41 min |
| Jul 14, 12:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hancock | 40 min |
| Jul 14, 12:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamblen | 45 min |
| Jul 14, 12:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hawkins | 41 min |
| Jul 14, 8:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 67 min |
| Jul 14, 8:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan | 59 min |
| Jul 14, 8:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell | 61 min |
| Jul 14, 8:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson | 62 min |
| Jul 14, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Monroe | 39 min |
| Jul 14, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Marion | 67 min |
| Jul 14, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Polk | 65 min |
| Jul 14, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Sequatchie | 56 min |
| Jul 14, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley | 55 min |
| Jul 14, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Polk | 49 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.