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River Flood Warning 17, NWS Morristown, TN

December 24, 2015Polk County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this river flood warning at Dec 24, 2015, 9:41 AM EST for Polk County, Tennessee. It took effect at Dec 24, 2015, 10:53 AM EST. It was in force for 21 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 24, 2015, 9:41 AM EST (14:41 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 24, 2015, 10:53 AM EST
Expired: Dec 25, 2015, 7:50 AM EST
In force: 21 hr
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Polk County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Toccoa River (GA) / Ocoee River (TN) at Copperhill (CPHT1).

Action stage: 6 ft
Minor stage: 8 ft
Moderate stage: 12 ft
Major stage: 14 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Dec 24, 6:53 AM EST, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 24, 6:53 AM EST, 2 hours 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 24, 3:44 AM EST, 5 hours 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Dec 24, 4:17 AM EST, 5 hours 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 24, 6:03 AM EST, 3 hours 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 24, 9:10 AM EST, 31 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
Dec 23, 8:37 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Bledsoe, Marion, Sequatchie	38 min
Dec 24, 12:15 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Marion, Sequatchie	45 min
Dec 24, 12:52 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Sequatchie	23 min
Dec 24, 1:17 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Meigs, Rhea	43 min
Dec 24, 1:49 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Marion	41 min
Dec 24, 2:04 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Grainger, Knox	41 min
Dec 24, 2:41 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Grainger, Hamblen, Hawkins	34 min
Dec 24, 2:47 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Hamblen, Jefferson	43 min
Dec 24, 3:26 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Polk	49 min
Dec 24, 8:29 AM EST	River Flood Warning	MRX	Cocke	55 hr
Dec 24, 9:41 AM EST	River Flood Warning	MRX	Cocke, Jefferson	48 hr
Dec 24, 3:09 PM EST	Flood Watch	MRX	Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 27 more	44 hr
Dec 24, 4:17 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Cherokee	43 min
Dec 24, 6:03 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Clay	42 min
Dec 24, 7:20 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Clay	115 min
Dec 24, 9:23 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Cherokee, Clay	112 min
Dec 24, 11:13 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Clay	2 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.