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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jan 23, 2002, 2:57 PM EST for McMinn County, Tennessee. It was in force for 3 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
- Jan 23, 2002, 2:57 PM EST (19:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 23, 2002, 5:45 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County McMinn County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 531 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 502 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 231957 FFWMRX TNC107-232245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 251 PM EST WED JAN 23 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR... MCMINN COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE * UNTIL 545 PM EST * AT 248 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE BULK OF THE RAIN WAS MOVING OUT OF MCMINN COUNTY. HOWEVER...IT WILL TAKE SEVERAL MORE HOURS FOR THE WATER ON THE GROUND TO RECEDE. WATER MAY ACTUALLY RISE DURING THIS PERIOD. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... RICEVILLE...ETOWAH...HILLSVIEW...ATHENS...CLEAR WATER... ENGLEWOOD...NIOTA MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. $$ LAT...LON 3537 8484 3527 8471 3533 8443 3565 8458 SP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 9:34 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Anderson, Knox, Loudon, Meigs, Morgan, Rhea and 1 more | 116 min |
| Jan 23, 11:32 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Anderson, Knox, Loudon, Meigs, Morgan, Rhea and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 23, 12:14 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Campbell, Scott | 3 hr |
| Jan 23, 1:12 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | McMinn | 108 min |
| Jan 23, 1:19 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Monroe | 116 min |
| Jan 23, 1:51 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Blount | 3 hr |
| Jan 23, 2:30 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Anderson, Knox, Loudon, Meigs, Morgan, Rhea and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 23, 3:16 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Campbell, Monroe, Scott | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002
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.