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River Flood Warning 28, NWS Morristown, TN

May 5, 2013Cocke County, Jefferson County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this river flood warning at May 5, 2013, 8:57 AM EDT for Cocke County, Jefferson County, Tennessee. It took effect at May 6, 2013, 7:16 AM EDT. It was in force for 31 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 5, 2013, 8:57 AM EDT (12:57 UTC)
In effect from: May 6, 2013, 7:16 AM EDT
Expired: May 7, 2013, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 31 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 12:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point French Broad River near Newport (NWPT1). The gauge peaked at 12.61 ft at May 6, 2013, 10:00 AM EDT.

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 May 5, 7:19 AM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 7:19 AM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 10:12 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	MRX	Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Sevier and 3 more	17 hr
May 5, 4:07 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	MRX	Bledsoe, Bradley, Hamilton, Meigs, Rhea, Sequatchie	6 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2013 Every 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.