Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 22, 1989, 9:23 AM EDT for Sevier County, Tennessee. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 22, 1989, 9:23 AM EDT (13:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 1989, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sevier County, TN
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -193 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KTYS 221323
FFWTYS
TNC155-221730-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TN
923 AM EDT FRI SEP 22 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN EAST CENTRAL TENNESSEE
...SEVIER
AT 915AM FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN PITTMAN CENTER ON WEBBS CREEK
AND NEAR GATLINBURG ON BASKIN CREEK AND DUDLEY CREEK. WEBBS CREEK ROAD
IS CLOSED AND THE COBBLEY NOB GOLF COURSE ROAD IS UNDER WATRER
AT PITTMAN CENTER. WATER IS RISING RAPIDLY ON BOTH THE MIDDLE PRONG
AND THE WEST PRONG OF THE LITTLE PIGEON RIVER.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT'S
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD
AVOID CAMP$ING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 22, 8:37 AM EDT, 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRISTOL TN 830 AM EDT FRI SEP 22 1989 TROPICAL STORM HUGO..AT 830 AM THIS MORNING..WAS LOCATED ABOUT 25 TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE TRI-CITIES MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MILES AN HOUR AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE TRI-CITIES AREA FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS UNTIL HUGO MOVES FURTHER NORTH INTO VIRGINIA. PARTS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA CLOSEST TO THE TROPICAL STORM CAN ALSO EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS. BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL IF YOU HAVE TO GO OUTSIDE THIS MORNING..AS THE STRONG WINDS CAN CAUSE TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES TO SNAP AND SOME ROOFING TO BLOW OFF. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 8:49 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Greene | 4 hr |
| Sep 22, 8:49 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Carter | 4 hr |
| Sep 22, 10:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Cocke | 4 hr |
| Sep 22, 10:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Blount | 4 hr |
| Sep 22, 10:44 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Johnson | 5 hr |
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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.