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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Morristown, TN

May 26, 2004Sullivan County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2004, 6:06 PM EDT for Sullivan County, Tennessee. It was in force for 39 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 26, 2004, 6:06 PM EDT (22:06 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2004, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sullivan County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 26, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 210 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 266 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

493 
WFUS54 KMRX 262206
TORMRX
TNC163-262245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
606 PM EDT WED MAY 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SULLIVAN COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 603 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR BRISTOL TN...
  MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL EASTERN SULLIVAN COUNTY AT 620 PM EDT

THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 90
MPH...AND GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL OR LARGER.

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 3659 8227 3643 8230 3648 8209 3655 8194

$$

DH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Campbell, Claiborne, Hancock	40 min
May 26, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Grainger, Hawkins	48 min
May 26, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Scott	42 min
May 26, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Greene, Hamblen, Sullivan, Washington	44 min
May 26, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Union	40 min
May 26, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Morgan	53 min
May 26, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Carter, Unicoi	66 min
May 26, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Grainger, Hawkins	47 min
May 26, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Johnson, Roane	67 min
May 26, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Jefferson, Washington	42 min
May 26, 6:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson, Knox	67 min
May 26, 6:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Roane	44 min
May 26, 6:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Loudon	36 min
May 26, 6:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Blount, Knox	42 min
May 26, 7:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Blount	31 min
May 26, 7:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Sevier	44 min
May 26, 7:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Knox	46 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.