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River Flood Warning 2, NWS Morristown, TN

January 24, 2010Cocke County, Jefferson County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this river flood warning at Jan 24, 2010, 8:41 AM EST for Cocke County, Jefferson County, Tennessee. It took effect at Jan 25, 2010, 4:55 AM EST. It was in force for 36 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 24, 2010, 8:41 AM EST (13:41 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 25, 2010, 4:55 AM EST
Expired: Jan 26, 2010, 5:00 PM EST
In force: 36 hr
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Cocke County, TN, Jefferson County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:40 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 French Broad River near Newport (NWPT1).

Action stage: 8 ft
Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 16 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03455000, 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 Jan 24, 6:15 AM EST, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 6:15 AM EST, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 24, 5:00 AM EST, 3 hours 41 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
500 AM EST SUN JAN 24 2010

NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-
005-006-008-251000-
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-
500 AM EST (400 AM CST) SUN JAN 24 2010

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A COLD FRONT WITH A STRONG WIND FIELD WILL MOVE ACROSS THE TENNESSEE
RIVER VALLEY TODAY...BRINGING HIGH WINDS ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND
THEIR ADJACENT FOOTHILLS DUE TO MOUNTAIN WAVES. IN ADDITION TO THE
MOUNTAIN WAVES...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY
LOWER SOME OF THE STRONG WINDS ALOFT INTO THE VALLEY AREAS.

PLEASE SEE THE LATEST MEMNPWMRX PRODUCT FOR FURTHER DETAILS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY FOR WIND DAMAGE REPORTS.

DMG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 24, 8:38 AM EST	River Flood Warning	MRX	Cocke, Jefferson	34 hr
Jan 24, 1:10 PM EST	Flood Watch	MRX	Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 27 more	8 hr
Jan 24, 1:19 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Anderson, Bledsoe, Bradley, Campbell, Hamilton, Loudon and 10 more	5 hr
Jan 24, 3:15 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Blount, Claiborne, Grainger, Jefferson, Knox, Loudon and 2 more	5 hr
Jan 24, 3:47 PM EST	Wind Advisory	MRX	Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Monroe and 5 more	4 hr
Jan 24, 4:42 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	MRX	Bradley, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Polk, Rhea	9 hr
Jan 24, 5:15 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	MRX	Anderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger, Hancock, Knox and 5 more	3 hr
Jan 24, 6:14 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Bledsoe, Hamilton, Marion, Sequatchie	2 hr

Nearby

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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.