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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Morristown, TN

June 11, 2003Sullivan County, Washington County, Tennessee; Washington County, City of Bristol, Virginia

NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 2003, 5:51 PM EDT for Sullivan County, Washington County, Tennessee; Washington County, City of Bristol, Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 2003, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2003, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Sullivan County, TN, Washington County, TN, City of Bristol, VA, Washington County, VA

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 258 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2003-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 73 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2003-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
73 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1056 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KMRX 112156
FFWMRX
TNC163-179-VAC191-520-120200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
551 PM EDT WED JUN 11 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SULLIVAN COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE
  CITY OF BRISTOL IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT

* AT 547 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SERIES OF THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING SLOWLY        
  NORTHEAST OVER NORTHEAST TENNESSEE INTO WASHINGTON COUNTY          
  VIRGINIA. RAINFALL RATES OF OVER ONE INCH PER HOUR HAVE BEEN       
  RECORDED IN RAIN GAGES IN SMYTH COUNTY VIRGINIA...AND DOPPLER      
  RADAR ESTIMATES OF THE SAME AMOUNT HAVE BEEN RECORDED IN NORTHEAST 
  TENNESSEE.

THE SOUTH FORK HOLSTON RIVER COMING OUT OF SMYTH COUNTY WILL 
PROBABLY EXCEED ITS BANKS IN PLACES AND THE FLOOD WAVE WILL TRAVEL 
THROUGH WASHINGTON COUNTY VIRGINIA INTO SULLIVAN COUNTY TENNESSEE. 
IN ADDITION...SPOTTERS REPORTED MINOR FLOODING IN INTERSTATE 181 
NEAR JOHNSON CITY TENNESSEE.

STAY OUT OF FLOODED ROADS. IF YOU SEE A ROAD WHICH IS CLOSED OR 
FLOODED...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN KEEP CHILDREN AWAY FROM DITCHES 
AND TILES.

LAT...LON 3639 8262 3613 8261 3620 8245 3640 8233
          3648 8210 3664 8182 3663 8165 3690 8183
          3671 8230 3659 8228 3658 8258

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 2:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXScott37 min
Jun 11, 2:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMarion, Sequatchie38 min
Jun 11, 2:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBledsoe52 min
Jun 11, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXRhea43 min
Jun 11, 3:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXRoane55 min
Jun 11, 3:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBlount33 min
Jun 11, 4:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXScott39 min
Jun 11, 4:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCampbell44 min
Jun 11, 4:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXGrainger27 min
Jun 11, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXScott24 min
Jun 11, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXSullivan39 min
Jun 11, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXUnicoi, Washington62 min
Jun 11, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXSullivan65 min
Jun 11, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCarter49 min
Jun 11, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWashington31 min
Jun 11, 5:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXJohnson53 min
Jun 11, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXGreene66 min
Jun 11, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton, Marion66 min
Jun 11, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWashington45 min
Jun 11, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXPolk43 min
Jun 11, 6:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMcMinn48 min
Jun 11, 6:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBradley39 min
Jun 11, 6:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMeigs, Monroe51 min
Jun 11, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXRhea50 min
Jun 11, 6:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXLoudon58 min
Jun 11, 6:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBlount52 min
Jun 11, 6:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXRoane47 min
Jun 11, 7:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMcMinn41 min
Jun 11, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXAnderson, Knox65 min
Jun 11, 7:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMorgan52 min
Jun 11, 7:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXMonroe32 min
Jun 11, 7:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXSevier38 min
Jun 11, 7:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCampbell, Grainger, Jefferson, Union44 min
Jun 11, 7:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXSullivan46 min
Jun 11, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXScott46 min
Jun 11, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWashington55 min
Jun 11, 6:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXRussell53 min
Jun 11, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXScott46 min
Jun 11, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWashington45 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2003Flash Flood Warnings in Virginia, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.