Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 29, 2012, 6:29 PM EST for Russell County, Washington County, Virginia. 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
- Feb 29, 2012, 6:29 PM EST (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 29, 2012, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Russell County, VA, Washington County, VA
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 6:50 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 1 N Lebanon, VA | TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 12:31 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
885
WFUS54 KMRX 292329
TORMRX
VAC167-191-010000-
/O.NEW.KMRX.TO.W.0005.120229T2329Z-120301T0000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE-TRI CITIES TN
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
629 PM EST WED FEB 29 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE-TRI CITIES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
RUSSELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
* UNTIL 700 PM EST
* AT 624 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
CLEVELAND...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
LEBANON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW! TORNADOES IN HILLY OR MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN ARE
HARD TO SEE. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
&&
LAT...LON 3686 8226 3700 8226 3700 8224 3702 8222
3709 8185 3701 8178 3697 8176 3695 8177
3694 8182 3692 8182 3683 8173
TIME...MOT...LOC 2329Z 270DEG 38KT 3692 8214
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 5:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Russell, Scott, Wise, City of Norton | 42 min |
| Feb 29, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Russell, Scott, Wise, City of Norton | 30 min |
| Feb 29, 6:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Russell, Wise | 38 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.