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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jan 26, 1996, 11:54 PM EST for Blount County, Tennessee. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 26, 1996, 11:54 PM EST (04:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 27, 1996, 4:00 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Blount County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:58 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 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 495 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 89 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 482 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 510 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
NWS Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jan 26, 8:31 PM EST, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 26, 8:31 PM EST, 3 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN 830 PM EST FRI JAN 26 1996 BUSY NIGHT. FLASH FLOOD WATCH AND WIND ADVISORY ARE WORKING OUT WELL. CPL OF FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS NOW IN EFFECT...AND KMRX 88D SHOWING 40-45 KT WINDS AT MT ELEVATIONS. VALLEY LOW TEMPS A BIT TRICKY. DEWPTS IN THE LOWER 40S ATTM. W/STRONG SRLY FLOW AND WIDESPREAD RAIN DON'T EXPECT MUCH MORE OF A FALL. WOULD PREFER UPPER 30S TRI AREA TO LOWER 40S CHA. FROPA WL PASS CSV BEFORE 12Z. HOWEVER MID 20S SOUNDS TOO LOW THERE AS WELL. WOULD PREFER AROUND 30. WINDS TAKING FOREVER TO MIX DOWN HERE IN THE VALLEY. BELIEVE WINDS WL REACH THEIR FCSTD SPEEDS SO ONLY CHG WOULD BE TO ADD "BECOMING". #9
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 7:30 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Sevier | 6 hr |
| Jan 26, 7:55 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Unicoi | 6 hr |
| Jan 26, 8:28 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Greene, Hawkins | 6 hr |
| Jan 26, 9:18 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Hamilton | 6 hr |
| Jan 26, 11:42 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Carter | 4 hr |
| Jan 26, 7:55 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 6 hr |
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.