Alert archive / Virginia / Flood Watches in 2015
Flood Watch 2, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this flood watch at Mar 2, 2015, 3:50 PM EST for 5 counties in Tennessee; 7 counties in Virginia. It took effect at Mar 3, 2015, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 48 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2015, 3:50 PM EST (20:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 3, 2015, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2015, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 48 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Campbell County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Scott 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), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 317 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
- 626 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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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.