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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Morristown, TN

May 25, 1996Rhea County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 1996, 2:27 AM EDT for Rhea 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
May 25, 1996, 2:27 AM EDT (06:27 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1996, 6:00 AM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Rhea County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 162 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1996-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2335 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1996-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2335 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMRX 250631
FFWMRX
TNC143-251000-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES TN
227 AM EDT SAT MAY 25 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...RHEA COUNTY
 
AT 225 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES
INDICATE THAT BETWEEN TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS
RHEA COUNTY IN THE LAST THREE HOURS.
 
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE SAME
AREAS FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS AND WILL LIKELY CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOOD
PROBLEMS.
 
 
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 CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 9:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCarter, Sullivan64 min
May 24, 10:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXJohnson61 min
May 24, 10:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXLoudon55 min
May 24, 10:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCarter, Sullivan65 min
May 24, 10:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXUnion66 min
May 24, 10:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBlount61 min
May 24, 11:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXRhea54 min
May 24, 11:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXKnox64 min
May 24, 11:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXScott55 min
May 24, 11:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton62 min
May 24, 11:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXAnderson, Morgan55 min
May 24, 11:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXLoudon61 min
May 24, 11:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCumberland, Fentress56 min
May 24, 11:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXRoane49 min
May 24, 11:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXJefferson61 min
May 25, 12:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHancock61 min
May 25, 12:17 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBradley58 min
May 25, 12:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCampbell, Claiborne63 min
May 25, 12:28 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamblen62 min
May 25, 12:38 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXWashington3 hr
May 25, 12:42 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMeigs, Rhea63 min
May 25, 12:54 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXCarter2 hr
May 25, 12:54 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXHancock2 hr
May 25, 1:12 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMcMinn, Monroe63 min
May 25, 1:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXGreene, Washington59 min
May 25, 1:21 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBradley69 min
May 25, 1:34 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMcMinn, Monroe56 min
May 25, 1:44 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMeigs, Rhea61 min
May 25, 1:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCarter, Unicoi56 min
May 25, 1:51 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBlount69 min
May 25, 1:58 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXPolk62 min
May 25, 3:07 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXWashington3 hr
May 25, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXSullivan39 min
May 25, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHawkins, Sullivan, Washington65 min
May 25, 5:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXGreene, Washington59 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.