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River Flood Warning 9, NWS Morristown, TN

March 12, 2010Cocke County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this river flood warning at Mar 12, 2010, 8:29 AM EST for Cocke County, Tennessee. It took effect at Mar 13, 2010, 6:18 AM EST. It was in force for 97 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 12, 2010, 8:29 AM EST (13:29 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 13, 2010, 6:18 AM EST
Expired
Mar 13, 2010, 7:55 AM EST
In force
97 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Flood severity
Minor

County Cocke County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:32 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 Pigeon River at Newport (NEPT1). The gauge peaked at 4.96 ft at Mar 13, 2010, 11:00 AM EST.

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Action stage
6 ft
Minor stage
8 ft
Moderate stage
10 ft
Major stage
12 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03461500, 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 Mar 12, 6:30 AM EST, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 6:30 AM EST, 1 hour 59 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 12, 4:29 AM EST, 4 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
429 AM EST FRI MAR 12 2010

NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-
005-006-008-130930-
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-
429 AM EST FRI MAR 12 2010 /329 AM CST FRI MAR 12 2010/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

LOW PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP OVER THE GULF COAST STATES TODAY AND
TRACK NORTHEAST TOWARD THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AND SOUTHERN
APPALACHIANS. AN ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL ALSO MOVE EAST ACROSS
THE REGION BY THIS EVENING. SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
WILL DEVELOP THIS MORNING AND LAST THROUGH THE EVENING...WITH A
FEW SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE.

DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE
POSSIBLE TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY OVER THE CUMBERLAND
PLATEAU...SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE AND CHEROKEE AND CLAY COUNTIES OF
NORTH CAROLINA. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO CAUSE FLOODING.

VERY STRONG SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS WILL OCCUR IN THE MOUNTAINS AND
FOOTHILLS...WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH POSSIBLE FROM MID TO
LATE MORNING THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT.

TG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 12, 3:42 AM ESTFlood WatchMRXBledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Carter, Cocke, Greene and 11 more19 hr
Mar 12, 4:05 AM ESTHigh Wind WarningMRXBlount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, McMinn and 6 more18 hr
Mar 12, 4:05 AM ESTWind AdvisoryMRXAnderson, Bledsoe, Bradley, Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger and 15 more6 hr
Mar 12, 10:56 AM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXBledsoe, Bradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Marion, Meigs and 4 more4 hr
Mar 12, 11:18 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXHamilton, Marion, Sequatchie42 min
Mar 12, 12:15 PM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXAnderson, Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Knox, Loudon and 8 more4 hr
Mar 12, 12:33 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBradley, Hamilton42 min
Mar 12, 12:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBlount, Loudon, McMinn, Monroe49 min
Mar 12, 1:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Meigs, Polk47 min
Mar 12, 1:24 PM ESTAreal Flood WarningMRXBradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Polk5 hr
Mar 12, 1:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXAnderson, Blount, Knox, Loudon, Sevier48 min
Mar 12, 1:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBlount, Loudon, McMinn, Monroe34 min
Mar 12, 2:32 PM ESTAreal Flood WarningMRXAnderson, Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Knox, Loudon and 8 more4 hr
Mar 12, 2:38 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXCampbell, Claiborne, Union19 min
Mar 12, 3:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXClaiborne27 min
Mar 12, 5:04 PM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXBlount, Sevier3 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2010Every 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.