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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Apr 3, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT for 4 counties in Tennessee. 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
- Apr 3, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bledsoe County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMRX 032137 FFWMRX TNC007-065-143-153-040330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 530 PM EDT MON APR 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BLEDSOE COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE HAMILTON COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE RHEA COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE SEQUATCHIE COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 1130 PM EDT(1030 PM CDT) * AT 530 PM EDT (430 PM CDT)...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED NUMEROUS AREAS IN HAMILTON COUNTY ARE EXPERIENCING FLASH FLOODING. FLASH FLOODING WILL ALSO OCCUR IN BLEDSOE...RHEA AND SEQUATCHIE COUNTIES. THE AREA OF RAIN PRODUCING THE FLASH FLOOD WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. *THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR BLEDSOE...HAMILTON...RHEA AND SEQUATCHIE COUNTIES. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SPRING CITY...SODDY-DAISY...SIGNAL MOUNTAIN...SALE CREEK...PALIO...OLD WASHINGTON...OLD CUMBERLAND... MOUNT CREST...MIDDLE VALLEY...MELVINE...LONE OAK...GRAYSVILLE... GRANDVIEW...EVENSVILLE AND BRAYTON. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLANDS...AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS THAT ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. DURING HEAVY RAINS...KEEP CHILDREN AWAY FROM STORM DRAINS...WATER CATCHMENTS...AND WATERWAYS. SHALLOW...GENTLY FLOWING WATER CAN BECOME A RAGING TORRENT IN A MATTER OF MINUTES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. $$ SON/HSA/BB
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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.