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River Flood Warning 12, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this river flood warning at May 4, 2009, 5:39 AM EDT for Morgan County, Roane County, Tennessee. It took effect at May 4, 2009, 7:42 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 2009, 5:39 AM EDT (09:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 4, 2009, 7:42 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 4, 2009, 2:06 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Morgan County, TN, Roane County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:39 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.
The river
Written for the forecast point Emory River at Oakdale (OAKT1). The gauge peaked at 27.91 ft at May 4, 2009, 6:00 AM EDT.
- Action stage
- 12 ft
- Minor stage
- 27 ft
- Moderate stage
- 28 ft
- Major stage
- 30 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03540500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at May 4, 4:17 AM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 4, 4:17 AM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 3, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Marion | 41 min |
| May 3, 8:22 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Bledsoe, Marion, Sequatchie | 113 min |
| May 3, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Sequatchie | 24 min |
| May 3, 9:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Sequatchie | 119 min |
| May 3, 9:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Morgan, Scott | 3 hr |
| May 3, 11:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Scott | 7 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.