Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Morristown, TN

Issued

Nov 30, 1996, 10:03 PM EST (03:03 UTC)

Expired

Dec 1, 1996, 1:00 AM EST

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Morristown, TN

Area

Whole counties

County Lee County, VA

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

000 
TTAA00 KMRX 010306
FFWMRX
VAC105-010600-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES TN
1003 PM EST SAT NOV 30 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...LEE COUNTY
 
AT 1000 PM EST THE POWELL RIVER AND ITS ASSOCIATED TRIBUTARIES CONTINUE
TO RISE RAPIDLY ACCORDING TO COUNTY OFFICIALS. SOME HAM RADIO REPORTS
ESTIMATE THAT THE RIVER IS RISING AT A RATE OF ONE FOOT PER HOUR.
RESIDENTS LIVING CLOSE TO OR IN THE VICINITY OF THE POWELL RIVER AND ITS
TRIBUTARIES SHOULD SEEK HIGHER GROUND UNTIL THE FLOODING RECEDES.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
 
 
 
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NWS Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Nov 30, 9:16 PM EST, 47 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
910 PM EST SAT NOV 30 1996

NOT MUCH TIME TO LOOK AT ANYTHING DUE TO MULTIPLE WARNINGS.  KMRX 88D
IS SHOWING A BREAK IN THE PCPN ACROSS THE PLATEAU AND CNTRL AND SRN
VLYS.  HOWEVER MORE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE IN LATER TONIGHT
AHEAD OF THE DIFFLUENT S/W TROUGH MOVING THROUGH TX AND OK.  TROPICAL
CONNECTION...LOW LVL THETA-E RDG...LLJ BETWEEN 40 AND 50 KNOTS ALONG
WITH IMPRESIVE UVVS WILL KEEP THE THREAT FOR MORE FLOODING TONIGHT AND
TMW MORNING ACROSS MOST OF MY CWA.

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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.