Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Morristown, TN

Issued

May 26, 1997, 10:48 PM EDT (02:48 UTC)

Expired

May 27, 1997, 1:45 AM EDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Morristown, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Carter County, TN, Sullivan County, TN

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:48 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.

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TTAA00 KMRX 270249
FFWMRX
TNC019-163-270545-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES TN
1048 PM EDT MON MAY 26 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...NORTHERN CARTER COUNTY...SULLIVAN COUNTY
 
AT 1046 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE MODERATE TO HEAVY
RAIN MOVING ACROSS ALL OF SULLIVAN COUNTY AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF
CARTER COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES HAVE SHOWN THAT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF
RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS THIS REGION. HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND
COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORT THAT MANY ROADS ARE ALREADY CLOSED DUE TO HIGH
WATER.
 
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.L
 
 
 
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NWS Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at May 26, 8:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
825 PM EDT MON MAY 26 1997

KMRX 88D CONTINUES TO SHOW TWO AREAS OF PCPN ACROSS THE CWA.  THE
FIRST BATCH IS A SCTD AREA OF SHRAS/TSRAS LOCATED ACROSS SW VA
AND NE TN.  THIS IS ASSCTD WITH THE ACTUAL FNT WHICH IS NOW LOCATED
JUST TO THE NORTH OF TRI.  THE SECOND AND LESS SIGNIFICANT AREA IS NOW
MOVING THROUGH EXTREME SE TN AND SW NC.  THIS SECOND AREA WL CONTINUE
TO WEAKEN AS THE FIRST MCS LOSES ITS PUNCH.  HOWEVER THE CONVECTION
ASSCTD WITH THE ACTUAL FNT WL LAST A BIT LONGER AS IT SLOWLY MOVES SWD
INTO THE MODERATE INSTABILITY.  WITH ALL THIS SAID CHC POPS STILL LOOK
GOOD FOR TNT EXCEPT FOR SW VA WHERE LKLY POPS UNTIL MIDNIGHT LOOK
BETTER.

THE NEXT BIG QUESTION IS IF THE NEXT MCS AFFECTS SE TN AFT MIDNIGHT
TNT.  GOING BY THE TRACK OF THE PREVIOUS ONE AND THE THICKNESS FIELDS
I THINK THE BRUNT OF THIS MCS WL LKLY REMAIN TO THE SOUTH OF SE TN.
HOWEVER IT WL BE CLOSE ENOUGH TO PERHAPS WARRANT SLIGHTLY HIGHER POPS
THAN THE REST OF THE CWA.  ALSO WE MAY WANT TO CONSIDER MENTIONING
"SOME COULD BE SEVERE" ACROSS SE TN AS WELL.  NO OTHER SIGNIFICANT
CHANGES NEEDED.

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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.