Alert archive / Tennessee / Areal Flood Warnings in 2012

Areal Flood Warning 4, NWS Morristown, TN

September 18, 20124 counties in Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this areal flood warning at Sep 18, 2012, 6:35 AM EDT for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 18, 2012, 6:35 AM EDT (10:35 UTC)
Expired
Sep 18, 2012, 12:30 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Blount County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Monroe County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:36 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 nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 263 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2012-09-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 405 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2012-09-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 220 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
405 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
220 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal 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 areal flood warning went out at Sep 17, 7:36 PM EDT, 10 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 17, 7:36 PM EDT, 10 hours 59 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, Sep 17, 5:13 PM EDT, 13 hours 22 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>

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 17, 8:37 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXBledsoe, Bradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Marion, Meigs and 3 more3 hr
Sep 18, 12:28 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXAnderson, Bledsoe, Bradley, Campbell, Claiborne, Hamilton and 7 more6 hr
Sep 18, 2:24 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningMRXHamilton6 hr
Sep 18, 2:59 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXAnderson, Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger, Hamblen and 10 more3 hr
Sep 18, 6:00 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXBlount, Bradley, Cocke, Grainger, Hamilton, Jefferson and 6 more3 hr
Sep 18, 8:22 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningMRXBradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Rhea3 hr
Sep 18, 9:00 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXClaiborne, Grainger, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson and 2 more3 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2012Every areal flood warning in 2012

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.