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Flash Flood Warning 82, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 1998, 2:56 PM EDT for Lee County, Wise County, Virginia. It was in force for 6 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
- Jun 4, 1998, 2:56 PM EDT (18:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1998, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lee County, VA, Wise County, VA
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 279 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1332 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMRX 041858 COR FFWMRX TNC019-073-091-163-179-VAC105-167-169-191-195-050055- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN 256 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CARTER COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE HAWKINS COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE JOHNSON COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE SULLIVAN COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE LEE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA RUSSELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA SCOTT COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA WISE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 250 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHEAST TENNESSEE... MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER AREAS ALREADY SATURATED BY HEAVY RAINS LAST NIGHT AND THIS MORNING. * EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AT THE RATE OF ONE INCH PER HOUR WILL PRODUCE FLOODING ACROSS SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHEAST TENNESSEE THROUGH 900 PM VEDT. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! PDK/JL
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 4, 9:45 AM EDT, 5 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 9:45 AM EDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN 945 AM EDT THU JUN 4 1998 KHTX AND KMRX 88DS SHOWING THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING EAST TN. SURFACE FRONT PROVIDING A FOCUS FOR ACTIVITY. BNA 12Z SOUNDING INDICATING VERY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS TODAY. SHORTWAVE EXPECTED TO PASS OVER EAST TN LATE THIS AFTERNOON...SO THINK LIKELY POPS FOR THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE ENTIRE CWA LOOKS GOOD FOR THE REST OF TODAY. MAY GET SOME BREAKS OF SUNSHINE THIS AFTERNOON AFTER THIS FIRST BATCH OF CONVECTION MOVES THROUGH...BUT CU WILL DEVELOP QUICKLY. TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE OK. RDU AND CRW...MAY WANT TO RAISE POPS TO 60% FOR TODAY. GH
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 4, 12:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE/TRI-CITIES TN
1202 AM EDT THU JUN 4 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION..6..
1115 AM HANGING DOG AREA NC WIND DAMAGE
06/04/98 CHEROKEE TREES DOWN HANGING DOG AND
ED GRAVES ROAD AREASThe office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Russell, Scott, Washington | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Virginia, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.