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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood watch at May 14, 2014, 3:41 PM EDT for 29 counties in Tennessee; Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina. It took effect at May 14, 2014, 5:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2014, 3:41 PM EDT (19:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 14, 2014, 5:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- May 15, 2014, 4:09 AM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Flood severity
- None
All 31 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, 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, Unicoi County, TN, Union County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at May 13, 7:34 PM EDT, 20 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 7:34 PM EDT, 20 hours 7 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Marion | 45 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Tennessee, 2014Flash Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2014Every flash flood watch in 2014
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.