Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Morristown, TN

Issued

Dec 1, 1996, 8:55 AM EST (13:55 UTC)

Expired

Dec 1, 1996, 12:00 PM EST

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Morristown, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Morgan County, TN, Roane County, TN

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KMRX 011358
FFWMRX
TNC013-025-129-145-VAC195-011700-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES TN
855 AM EST (755 AM CST) SUN DEC 1 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON EST (1100 AM CST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...CAMPBELL COUNTY...CLAIBORNE COUNTY...MORGAN COUNTY
   ...ROANE COUNTY
 
 
IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...WISE COUNTY
 
AT 855 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED RAIN
DIMINISHING ACROSS THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU...TENNESSEE VALLEY AND THE
EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN TIP OF VIRGINIA. HOWEVER...RUNOFF FROM VERY HEAVY
RAINS OVERNIGHT HAS KEPT MANY ROADS UNDER WATER WITH CREEKS AND STREAMS
NEAR OR ABOVE BANKFULL...ESPECIALLY IN PARTS OF MORGAN...ROANE...CAMPBELAND CLAIBORNE COUNTIES OF TENNESSEE AS WELL AS WISE COUNTY VIRGINIA.
 
OFFICIALS IN THESE COUNTIES WERE STILL REPORTING WATER FLOWING ACROSS
MANY ROADS...ESPECIALLY SECONDARY AND BACKROADS. SOME ROADS WILL REMAIN
BARRICADED THROUGHOUT THE REMAINDER OF THE MORNING...BEFORE WATERS BEGIN
TO RECEDE BY NOON. THUS..FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS WILL BE EXTENDED FOR THESE
COUNTIES UNTIL NOON EST.
 
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.

NWS Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Dec 1, 3:12 AM EST, 5 hours 43 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
310 AM EST SUN DEC 1 1996

PCS BEING USED FOR WARNINGS...BOTH FLW AND FFW...SO WAS WORKING ON
MY AFD ON AFOS ADM. AFD GOT WIPED OUT SO RUNNING A BIT LATE. AGREE
WITH CRW ON LETTING FFA RUN THRU MORNING HRS IN LINE WITH MEM AND
RDU FFAS ISSUED EARLIER. STLT PICS AND 88DS SHOW BACK EDGE OF PCPN
OVER ERN PARTS OF MIDDLE TN ATTM. MDT TO HVY RAINS UNFORTUNATELY
MOVG ACROSS SOAKED AND SOGGY PLATEAU COUNTIES INTO EXTRM SWRN VA
WHERE ADDITIONAL RAINS ARE ALSO UNWELCOMED. BASED ON CUR SITUATION
AND VIEWING GRIDDED DATA...APPRS RAIN WOULD END WITH PASSAGE OF LEAD
FRONT...WHICH SHOULD CLEAR WRN MOST PARTS OF MRX BY 12Z. FROPA AT
REMAINDER OF MRX CWA CLEARLY BY OR BEFORE 18Z. ERN MOST PARTS OF CWA
WILL GET HEAVY RAINS UP TO THAT TIME AS 50-60 KT LOW LVL JET INCRS
PCPTBL WATER VALUES UP TO 1.5 INCHES. DRY SLOT NOTED ON STLT LOOPS
SHOULD MOVE INTO THE AREA THIS EVNG AS SHRTWV TROF LIFTS NE OF THE
REGION...SO CLEARING TNGT LOOKS GOOD. BNDRY LYR RH STAYS HIGH
OVERNIGHT AND WET GROUNDS WOULD AID DVLPMT OF FOG...BUT STRONG WEST
WINDS AND CAA ARE NOT CONDUCIVE TO FOG. BREEZY TO WINDY TDA THEN
DIMINISHING WINDS BY SUNSET.

TEMP WISE...COLDER AIR LAGGING W OF MISS RIVER THIS MRNG SHOULD
OVERTAKE LEAD FRONT AND THUS EXPECT MRNG HIGHS. TEMPS FALLING THRU
THE 40S ON PLATEAU PER FWC MOS LOOKS GOOD. MOS MINS TNGT CLOSE AND
ACCEPTABLE. FWC MAXES PRBLY TOO WARM FOR MON BUT FAN ALSO MIGHT BE
TOO COOL.   #10

TG

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.