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River Flood Warning 17, NWS Morristown, TN

April 16, 2011Bledsoe County, Marion County, Sequatchie County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this river flood warning at Apr 16, 2011, 12:31 PM CDT for Bledsoe County, Marion County, Sequatchie County, Tennessee. It took effect at Apr 16, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 30 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 16, 2011, 12:31 PM CDT (17:31 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 16, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 17, 2011, 7:20 PM CDT
In force: 30 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 17:36 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 Apr 16, 12:24 PM CDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 12:24 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 16, 11:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
1201 PM EDT SAT APR 16 2011

NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-
005-006-008-171615-
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-
1201 PM EDT SAT APR 16 2011 /1101 AM CDT SAT APR 16 2011/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THE TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT AROUND A DEPARTING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM
WILL BRING STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTHWEST TO WEST WINDS TODAY INTO
EARLY THIS EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 10:03 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Bledsoe, Bradley, Hamilton, Loudon, McMinn, Marion and 6 more	5 hr
Apr 16, 12:20 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MRX	Bradley, Hamilton	6 hr
Apr 16, 1:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Anderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson and 2 more	3 hr
Apr 16, 8:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MRX	Hamilton	27 hr
Apr 16, 9:46 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	MRX	Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 27 more	10 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2011 Every river flood warning in 2011

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.