Alert archive / Tennessee / Flood Watches in 2013
Flood Watch 4, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this flood watch at Jul 2, 2013, 4:27 AM EDT for 33 counties in Tennessee; 7 counties in Virginia; Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jul 3, 2013, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 4 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2013, 4:27 AM EDT (08:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 3, 2013, 8:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2013, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 days
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Flood severity
- None
All 42 counties
Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Anderson County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Carter County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Marion County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Polk County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Union County, TN, Washington County, TN, City of Bristol, VA, City of Norton, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:30 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 337 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 661 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 808 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 9:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 10:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Meigs, Rhea | 115 min |
Nearby
Flood Watches in Tennessee, 2013Flood Watches in Virginia, 2013Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2013Every flood watch in 2013
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.