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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Morristown, TN

January 11, 2014Cocke County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this river flood warning at Jan 11, 2014, 1:51 PM EST for Cocke County, Tennessee. It took effect at Jan 12, 2014, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 11, 2014, 1:51 PM EST (18:51 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 12, 2014, 1:00 AM EST
Expired: Jan 12, 2014, 7:00 AM EST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Cocke County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Pigeon River at Newport (NEPT1). The gauge peaked at 7.49 ft at Jan 11, 2014, 4:00 PM EST.

Action stage: 6 ft
Minor stage: 8 ft
Moderate stage: 10 ft
Major stage: 12 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03461500, 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 11, 1:13 PM EST, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 11, 1:13 PM EST, 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 11, 12:06 PM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 11, 8:41 AM EST, 5 hours 10 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
841 AM EST SAT JAN 11 2014

TNZ017-018-045>047-VAZ006-008-111400-
JOHNSON TN-NORTHWEST CARTER TN-RUSSELL VA-SOUTHEAST CARTER
TN-SULLIVAN TN-UNICOI TN-WASHINGTON VA-
841 AM EST SAT JAN 11 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CARTER...WASHINGTON...RUSSELL...
JOHNSON...UNICOI AND EXTREME EASTERN SULLIVAN COUNTIES UNTIL 900 AM
EST...

AT 842 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES
NORTHWEST OF GLEN BURKE TO ABINGDON TO 10 MILES WEST OF MOUNTAIN
CITY TO 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAMPTON TO HOT SPRINGS...AND MOVING
EAST AT 55 MPH.

SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE
STORMS.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...MOUNTAIN CITY...
BANNER HILL...ROSEDALE...ROCKY FORK...DYE...LINDELL...SHADY VALLEY...
LIMESTONE COVE...DOEVILLE...EMORY-MEADOW VIEW...GLADE SPRING...
DAMASCUS...NEVA...ELK MILLS...LAUREL BLOOMERY...ROAN MOUNTAIN...
KONNAROCK AND TRADE.

DH

Local storm report, Jan 11, 12:15 PM EST, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 11, 12:39 PM EST, 1 hour 12 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
Jan 11, 10:36 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	MRX	Blount, Cocke, Sevier	3 hr
Jan 11, 12:53 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	MRX	Blount, Sevier	3 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2014 Every river flood warning 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.