Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2014
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 2014, 3:33 PM EDT for Meigs County, Rhea County, Roane County, Tennessee. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2014, 3:33 PM EDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2014, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Meigs County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 1278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1077 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
732
WGUS54 KMRX 191933
FFWMRX
TNC121-143-145-192200-
/O.NEW.KMRX.FF.W.0002.140619T1933Z-140619T2200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
333 PM EDT THU JUN 19 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN MEIGS COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE...
SOUTHWESTERN ROANE COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE...
NORTHEASTERN RHEA COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 600 PM EDT
* AT 332 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT NEARLY TWO INCHES
OF RAIN HAD FALLEN EAST OF GRANDVIEW PRIOR TO 300 PM...
BUT ALSO INDICATED THAT ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IN EXCESS OF
AN INCH WILL QUICKLY FALL OVER THE SAME AREAS THROUGH 430 PM.
THIS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN THE WARNING AREA.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
ROCKWOOD...SPRING CITY...GRANDVIEW...PINEY FALLS S.P....EAGLE
FURNACE AND TEN MILE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
STAY AWAY OR BE SWEPT AWAY. RIVER BANKS AND CULVERTS CAN BECOME
UNSTABLE AND UNSAFE.
TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3578 8489 3582 8482 3582 8478 3590 8469
3565 8466 3561 8487
$$
GDC1 follow-up statement
752
WGUS74 KMRX 192058
FFSMRX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
458 PM EDT THU JUN 19 2014
TNC121-143-145-192108-
/O.CAN.KMRX.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-140619T2200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
MEIGS TN-ROANE TN-RHEA TN-
458 PM EDT THU JUN 19 2014
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN MEIGS...SOUTHWESTERN
ROANE AND NORTHEASTERN RHEA COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED...AND FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE
A THREAT.
LAT...LON 3578 8489 3582 8482 3582 8478 3590 8469
3565 8466 3561 8487
$$
DGSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 1:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Roane | 38 min |
| Jun 19, 1:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Anderson, Grainger, Hamblen, Hawkins, Jefferson, Knox and 1 more | 60 min |
| Jun 19, 2:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Bledsoe, Meigs, Rhea, Roane | 39 min |
| Jun 19, 2:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Jefferson | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Sullivan | 41 min |
| Jun 19, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter, Sullivan, Washington | 37 min |
| Jun 19, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter, Unicoi, Washington | 25 min |
| Jun 19, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Bradley, Polk | 39 min |
| Jun 19, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Polk | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan | 52 min |
| Jun 19, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Blount | 59 min |
| Jun 19, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Johnson | 52 min |
| Jun 19, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter, Johnson, Sullivan | 46 min |
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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.