Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Morristown, TN

Issued

Jun 13, 1997, 12:05 AM EDT (04:05 UTC)

Expired

Jun 13, 1997, 4:00 AM EDT

In force

4 hr

Issued by

NWS Morristown, TN

Area

Whole counties

County Loudon County, TN

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:07 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.

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TTAA00 KMRX 130409
FFWMRX
TNC105-130800-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES TN
1205 AM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE TRI CITIES HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...LOUDON COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW VERY
HEAVY RAIN FALLING OVER LOUDON COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE
THAT RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN A BAND STRETCHING WEST THROUGH EAST
ACROSS CENTRAL LOUDON COUNTY TOTALED 2 TO 3 INCHES SINCE 10 PM.
 
RUNOFF FROM THESE HEAVY RAINS ARE CAUSING CREEKS AND STREAMS
TO OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS AND AREA ROADS ARE FLOODING AT THIS
TIME.  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1/2 TO 1 INCH PER HOUR WILL
CONTINUE OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS AND THEREFORE THE FLOOD
SITUATION WILL ONLY WORSEN.
 
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.

NWS Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 12, 8:36 PM EDT, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
835 PM EDT THU JUN 12 1997

SUGGESTIONS...CRW AND MEM MAY NEED TO LOWER POPS ACROSS THE BOARD
FOR REMAINDER OF TONIGHT.

COVERAGE HAS CONTD TO DIMINISH ACROSS MOST OF MY CWA AS ONGOING
CONVECTION MOVES E.  ADAP HAS BEEN SHOWING MAIN AREA OF LOW LVL
CONVERGENCE TO BE ACROSS THE PLATEAU...WHERE FEW CELLS BRIEFLY
INTENSIFIED.  HOWEVER...TREND PAST HALF HOUR SHOWS STORMS WEAKENING.
MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS PLUS STILL WELL DEFINED APCHG SHRTWV...SO
CAN'T DROP POPS FOR ANY AREA.  I WOULD KEEP SOMETHING LIKE SCTRD
RW/TSTMS WITH CHC POPS MOST AREAS.

PARTIAL CLEARING AND WET GROUNDS ACROSS THE PLATEAU AND MOST OF VALLEY
W4ILL BE CONDUCIVE TO FOG DVLPMT...UNLESS MID-HI CLOUDS INCRS WITH
SHRTWV.  OTRW...A MUGGY NIGHT AHEAD AS CUR DEWPTS RANGE FROM MID 60S
TO NEAR 70 DEGS.   #10

TG

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.