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Flood Watch 2, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this flood watch at Oct 13, 2014, 3:51 PM EDT for 33 counties in Tennessee; 7 counties in Virginia; Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina. It took effect at Oct 14, 2014, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 2014, 3:51 PM EDT (19:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 14, 2014, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2014, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- 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 19:53 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 265 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 400 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this 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 flood watch went out at Oct 13, 3:20 PM EDT, 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 3:20 PM EDT, 31 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 13, 12:10 PM EDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 1210 PM EDT MON OCT 13 2014 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-005- 006-008-141200- CHEROKEE-CLAY-SCOTT TN-CAMPBELL-CLAIBORNE-HANCOCK-HAWKINS-SULLIVAN- JOHNSON-MORGAN-ANDERSON-UNION-GRAINGER-HAMBLEN-NORTHWEST COCKE-COCKE SMOKY MOUNTAINS-NORTHWEST GREENE-SOUTHEAST GREENE-WASHINGTON TN- UNICOI-NORTHWEST CARTER-SOUTHEAST CARTER-ROANE-LOUDON-KNOX-JEFFERSON- NW BLOUNT-BLOUNT SMOKY MOUNTAINS-NORTH SEVIER-SEVIER SMOKY MOUNTAINS- SEQUATCHIE-BLEDSOE-RHEA-MEIGS-MCMINN-NORTHWEST MONROE-SOUTHEAST MONROE-MARION-HAMILTON-BRADLEY-WEST POLK-EAST POLK-LEE-WISE-SCOTT- RUSSELL-WASHINGTON- 1210 PM EDT MON OCT 13 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST TENNESSEE...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... A STRONG STORM SYSTEM AND ITS ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL SLOWLY APPROACH THE REGION TONIGHT...BRINGING A STRONG SOUTHEASTERLY WIND FLOW OVER THE MOUNTAINS. STRONG WIND GUSTS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND THEIR ADJACENT FOOTHILLS TONIGHT INTO TUESDAY...WHERE A HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT. A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO APPROACH THE REGION LATE TONIGHT TOWARDS SUNRISE...WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS POSSIBLY BECOMING STRONG TO SEVERE NEAR THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT...ALTHOUGH AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... A COLD FRONT WITH A STRONG WIND FIELD WILL SLOWLY MOVE INTO THE AREA ON TUESDAY...BRINGING AN EXTENSIVE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE COLD FRONT... FLOODING WILL BE A THREAT ON TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. SOME STORMS ON TUESDAY MAY ALSO BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS... AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO OR TWO WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. STRONG WIND GUSTS WILL ALSO CONTINUE ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND THEIR ADJACENT FOOTHILLS ON TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ON TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 9:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Polk | 60 min |
| Oct 13, 11:34 AM EDT | High Wind Warning | MRX | Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, McMinn and 4 more | 33 hr |
| Oct 13, 3:31 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | MRX | Anderson, Bledsoe, Campbell, Claiborne, Hancock, Marion and 7 more | 29 hr |
Nearby
Flood Watches in Tennessee, 2014Flood Watches in Virginia, 2014Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2014Every 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.