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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Morristown, TN

May 26, 2004Loudon County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2004, 6:39 PM EDT for Loudon County, Tennessee. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report 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: May 26, 2004, 6:39 PM EDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2004, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Loudon County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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
May 26, 6:50 PM EDT	TORNADO	Lenoir City, TN	SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND AT THE JUNCTION OF INTERSTATE 75 AND HIGHWAY 321.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 268 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: 109 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -308 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1090 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

783 
WFUS54 KMRX 262239
TORMRX
TNC105-262315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 638 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  EATON CROSSROADS...OR 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF LENOIR CITY...MOVING
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  LENOIR CITY AROUND 645 PM EDT

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

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 3586 8431 3568 8448 3562 8418 3584 8419

$$

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, 6:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Sullivan	39 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, 6:48 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.