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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Morristown, TN

July 27, 2014Sullivan County, Tennessee; 6 counties in Virginia

NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2014, 5:50 PM EDT for Sullivan County, Tennessee; 6 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 27, 2014, 5:50 PM EDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2014, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Sullivan County, TN, City of Bristol, VA, City of Norton, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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.

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 27, 1:00 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	11 hr

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 26, 7:53 PM EDT, 21 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 7:53 PM EDT, 21 hours 57 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 3:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Campbell, Scott	37 min
Jul 27, 3:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Campbell, Union	33 min
Jul 27, 5:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Campbell, Claiborne, Scott	49 min
Jul 27, 5:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Greene, Hawkins, Sullivan, Washington	50 min
Jul 27, 5:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Scott	50 min
Jul 27, 5:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger, Union	49 min
Jul 27, 6:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Carter, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington	57 min
Jul 27, 6:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Anderson, Campbell, Scott	49 min
Jul 27, 6:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger, Scott, Union	114 min
Jul 27, 6:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Cocke, Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson	51 min
Jul 27, 6:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Carter, Johnson, Sullivan	51 min
Jul 27, 6:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Anderson, Loudon, Morgan, Roane, Scott	54 min
Jul 27, 7:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Anderson, Campbell, Grainger, Jefferson, Knox, Union	53 min
Jul 27, 7:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Jefferson	51 min
Jul 27, 7:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Carter, Johnson, Sullivan	33 min
Jul 27, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Blount, Cocke, Jefferson, Knox, Sevier	58 min
Jul 27, 7:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Anderson, Knox, Loudon, Morgan, Roane	51 min
Jul 27, 7:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Anderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene and 9 more	110 min
Jul 27, 7:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Blount, Knox, Sevier	23 min
Jul 27, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Russell, Scott, Wise, City of Norton	46 min
Jul 27, 4:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MRX	Lee, Scott, Wise	52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2014 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2014 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.