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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Morristown, TN

May 28, 1995Fentress County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 1995, 2:24 PM CDT for Fentress County, Tennessee. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 1995, 2:24 PM CDT (19:24 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1995, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Fentress County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMRX 281925
FFWTYS
TNC049-282030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TN
ISSUED BY KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES TN
324 PM EDT (224 PM CDT) SUN MAY 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM EDT (330 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...FENTRESS COUNTY
 
AT 320 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ANOTHER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING FENTRESS COUNTY FROM THE SOUTHWEST. THIS
STORM WILL PRODUCE MORE HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS FENTRESS COUNTY. THIS
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL COMBINED WITH PREVIOUS HEAVY AMOUNTS THAT FELL
EARLIER THIS MORNING AND THIS AFTERNOON WILL MOST LIKELY PRODUCE MORE
FLASH FLOODING ACROSS THE COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
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

Local storm report, May 28, 9:19 AM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN
1015AM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995

 SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE

SOURCE OF REPORT  PUBLIC REPORTS/HAMS
OCCURRENCE        WIND/HAIL ...TREES DOWN...PEA SIZE HAILb/HEAVY RAIN
DATE AND TIME     5/27/95  740PM EDT
COUNTY            HAMILTON...CITY OF RED BANK

Local storm report, May 28, 9:24 AM CDT, 5 hours before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN
1020AM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995

 SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE

SOURCE OF REPORT  SHERIFFS OFFICE
OCCURRENCE        WIND...HEAVY RAINS...TREES DOWN
DATE AND TtIME     5/28/95...800PM CDT
COUNTY            SOUTHERN BLEDSOE COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF PIKEVILLE

Local storm report, May 28, 9:26 AM CDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN
1020AM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995

 SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE

SOURCE OF REPORT  SHERIFFS OFFICE
OCCURRENCE        WIND...HEAVY RAINS...TREES DOWN
DATE AND TIME     5/27/95...800PM CDT
COUNTY            SOUTHERN BLEDSOE COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF PIKEVILLE

Local storm report, May 28, 9:29 AM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN
1025AM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995

 SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE

SOURCE OF REPORT  RADIO STATION/HAMS
OCCURRENCE        WIND...HEAVY RAINS...TREES DOWN
DATE AND TIME     5/27/95... 425PM EDT
COUNTY            EAST CENTRAL MCMINN COUNTY NEAR MONROE COUNTY LINE

Local storm report, May 28, 9:38 AM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITY TN
1032 AM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1000 AM    JAMESTOWN                 TN   FLOODING
5/28/95    FENTRESS                       FENTRESS COUNTY SHERIFF
                                          DISPATCH REPORTED FLOODING OF
                                          AN APARTMENT BUILDING IN
                                          JAMESTOWN. EVACUATION OF THE
                                          BUILDING WAS IN PROGRESS.

Local storm report, May 28, 9:40 AM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITY TN
1040 AM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1000 AM    JAMESTOWN                 TN   FLOODING
5/28/95    FENTRESS                       FENTRESS COUNTY SHERIFF
                                          DISPATCH REPORTED FLOODING OF
                                          AN APARTMENT BUILDING IN
                                          JAMESTOWN. EVACUATION OF THE
                                          BUILDING WAS IN PROGRESS.

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, 8:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Cumberland, Fentress	2 hr
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, 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

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.