Alert archive / Tennessee / River Flood Warnings in 2010

River Flood Warning 3, NWS Morristown, TN

January 24, 2010Bledsoe County, Marion County, Sequatchie County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this river flood warning at Jan 24, 2010, 6:07 PM CST for Bledsoe County, Marion County, Sequatchie County, Tennessee. It took effect at Jan 25, 2010, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 45 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 24, 2010, 6:07 PM CST (00:07 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 25, 2010, 12:00 AM CST
Expired: Jan 26, 2010, 9:19 PM CST
In force: 45 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 00:08 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). The gauge peaked at 14.94 ft at Jan 25, 2010, 12:00 PM CST.

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 Jan 24, 5:56 PM CST, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 5:56 PM CST, 11 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 24, 4:00 AM CST, 14 hours 7 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, 7:04 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	MRX	Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger, Hancock and 7 more	6 hr
Jan 25, 12:52 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	MRX	Bledsoe, Bradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Marion, Meigs and 4 more	3 hr
Jan 25, 1:00 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	MRX	Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger and 10 more	3 hr
Jan 25, 3:50 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	MRX	Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Monroe and 2 more	23 hr
Jan 25, 4:07 AM CST	Wind Advisory	MRX	Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 27 more	17 hr
Jan 25, 3:03 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MRX	Hamilton	12 hr
Jan 24, 7:20 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Cherokee, Clay	3 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2010 Every river flood warning in 2010

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.