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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Morristown, TN

May 26, 2004Blount County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2004, 7:29 PM EDT for Blount County, Tennessee. It was in force for 31 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, 7:29 PM EDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2004, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Blount County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 7:40 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Walland, TN	NUMEROUS TREES DOWN IN THE WALLAND AREA.

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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 272 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.

597 
WFUS54 KMRX 262329
TORMRX
TNC009-270000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 728 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR MARYVILLE...
  MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WILDWOOD AROUND 735 PM EDT
  WALLAND AROUND 745 PM EDT
  TOWNSEND AROUND 755 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 3587 8400 3570 8409 3557 8368 3582 8375

$$

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, 6:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Loudon	36 min
May 26, 6:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Blount, Knox	42 min
May 26, 7:46 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.