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River Flood Warning 3, NWS Morristown, TN

January 6, 2009Hamilton County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this river flood warning at Jan 6, 2009, 7:32 PM EST for Hamilton County, Tennessee. It took effect at Jan 6, 2009, 11:33 PM EST. It was in force for 52 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 6, 2009, 7:32 PM EST (00:32 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 6, 2009, 11:33 PM EST
Expired
Jan 9, 2009, 3:46 AM EST
In force
52 hr
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Flood severity
Moderate

County Hamilton County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 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 river

Written for the forecast point S. Chickamauga Creek near Chickamauga (CHKT1).

Action stage
16 ft
Minor stage
18 ft
Moderate stage
22 ft
Major stage
27 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03567500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 6, 8:53 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningMRXSevier12 hr
Jan 7, 2:05 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningMRXHawkins, Sullivan18 hr
Jan 7, 4:07 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningMRXCocke16 hr
Jan 7, 7:49 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningMRXGrainger, Hancock18 hr
Jan 7, 7:49 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningMRXClaiborne, Grainger, Hancock34 hr
Jan 7, 3:05 PM ESTWinter Storm WarningMRXBlount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Sevier and 1 more21 hr
Jan 7, 3:05 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryMRXAnderson, Blount, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke and 13 more21 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2009Every river flood warning in 2009

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.