Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 1995, 8:27 AM CDT for Cumberland County, Fentress County, Tennessee. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 1995, 8:27 AM CDT (13:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1995, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cumberland County, TN, Fentress County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:29 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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 311 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMRX 281327 FFWTYS TNC035-049-281530- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TN ISSUED BY KNOXVILLE/TRI CITIES TN 927 AM EDT (827 AM CDT) SUN MAY 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM EDT (1030 AM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST TENNESSEE ...CUMBERLAND COUNTY...FENTRESS COUNTY AT 925 AM EDT DOPPLER RADAR IN MORRISTOWN TENNESSEE INDICATED AS MUCH AS ONE INCH OF RAINFALL OVER WESTERN FENTRESS COUNTY DURING THE PAST HOUR. MORE HEAVY RAINFALL WAS MOVING INTO FENTRESS AND CUMBERLAND COUNTIES FROM THE WEST AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS ACROSS THESE TWO COUNTIES. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING 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. GRC
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, May 28, 8:14 AM CDT, 13 minutes before
TNZ066-034-035-012-281515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TN ISSUED BY KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES TN 913 AM EDT (813 AM CDT) SUN MAY 28 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU... AT 908 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN MORRISTOWN TENNESSEE INDICATED AT LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...ENTERING THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF FENTRESS...SCOTT...MORGAN AND CUMBERLAND COUNTIES. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AS MUCH AS THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OF RAINFALL DURING THE PAST HOUR OVER THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF FENTRESS COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE ACROSS THE PLATEAU AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT THIS MORNING FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING THAT WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ALSO BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER IF YOU LIVE NEAR A FLOOD PRONE LOW LYING AREA. STAY TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. COLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount | 44 min |
| May 27, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Knox, Sevier | 55 min |
| May 27, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger, Jefferson | 69 min |
| May 27, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke, Hamblen | 39 min |
| May 27, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger | 35 min |
| May 28, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Fentress | 28 min |
| May 28, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Pickett | 38 min |
| May 28, 2:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Fentress | 66 min |
| May 28, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan | 33 min |
| May 28, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell, Scott | 65 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.