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River Flood Warning 19, NWS Morristown, TN

January 31, 2013Cocke County, Jefferson County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this river flood warning at Jan 31, 2013, 5:42 AM EST for Cocke County, Jefferson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 31, 2013, 5:42 AM EST (10:42 UTC)
Expired
Jan 31, 2013, 5:20 PM EST
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Cocke County, TN, Jefferson County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:43 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 French Broad River near Newport (NWPT1).

Action stage
8 ft
Minor stage
10 ft
Moderate stage
16 ft
Major stage
20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03455000, 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 30, 6:29 PM EST, 11 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 30, 6:29 PM EST, 11 hours 13 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 30, 8:47 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningMRXClaiborne, Hancock42 hr
Jan 30, 11:52 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningMRXSevier14 hr
Jan 31, 4:05 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryMRXAnderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne and 22 more29 hr
Jan 31, 6:22 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningMRXHancock13 hr
Jan 31, 3:59 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningMRXBledsoe, Marion, Sequatchie6 hr
Jan 31, 12:43 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningMRXRussell, Scott29 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2013Every river flood warning 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.