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River Flood Warning 9, NWS Morristown, TN

May 3, 2009Bledsoe County, Marion County, Sequatchie County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this river flood warning at May 3, 2009, 5:27 AM CDT for Bledsoe County, Marion County, Sequatchie County, Tennessee. It took effect at May 3, 2009, 5:39 AM CDT. It was in force for 27 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 3, 2009, 5:27 AM CDT (10:27 UTC)
In effect from: May 3, 2009, 5:39 AM CDT
Expired: May 4, 2009, 8:54 AM CDT
In force: 27 hr
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Bledsoe County, TN, Marion County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:29 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 Sequatchie River near Whitwell (WHTT1).

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 19 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03571000, 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 3, 3:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 3:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 3:51 AM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
451 AM EDT SUN MAY 3 2009

NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-
005-006-008-040900-
CHEROKEE-CLAY-SCOTT TN-CAMPBELL-CLAIBORNE-HANCOCK-HAWKINS-
SULLIVAN-JOHNSON-MORGAN-ANDERSON-UNION-GRAINGER-HAMBLEN-
NORTHWEST COCKE-COCKE SMOKY MOUNTAINS-NORTHWEST GREENE-
SOUTHEAST GREENE-WASHINGTON TN-UNICOI-NORTHWEST CARTER-
SOUTHEAST CARTER-ROANE-LOUDON-KNOX-JEFFERSON-NW BLOUNT-
BLOUNT SMOKY MOUNTAINS-NORTH SEVIER-SEVIER SMOKY MOUNTAINS-
SEQUATCHIE-BLEDSOE-RHEA-MEIGS-MCMINN-NORTHWEST MONROE-
SOUTHEAST MONROE-MARION-HAMILTON-BRADLEY-WEST POLK-EAST POLK-LEE-
WISE-SCOTT-RUSSELL-WASHINGTON-
451 AM EDT SUN MAY 3 2009 /351 AM CDT SUN MAY 3 2009/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH
CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS
THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT...AS AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPS
ALONG A STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY. A FEW STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE
STORMS MAY DEVELOP OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST PARTS OF TENNESSEE.

HOWEVER...THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE POSSIBLE FLOODING FROM ADDITIONAL
MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINS. FOR MORE DETAILS ON THE POTENTIAL FOR
FLOODING...PLEASE SEE OUR LATEST FLOOD WATCH STATEMENT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

SHOWERS AND STORMS SHOULD END EARLY MONDAY AS A COLD FRONT PUSHES
EAST OF THE APPALACHIANS...WITH NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED
THROUGH SATURDAY AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS UNLIKELY AT THIS TIME.

TG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 7:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MRX	Cocke	13 hr
May 3, 8:49 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MRX	Hamilton	12 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2009 Every 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.