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River Flood Warning 23, NWS Morristown, TN

December 29, 2015Cocke County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this river flood warning at Dec 29, 2015, 7:39 AM EST for Cocke County, Tennessee. It was in force for 36 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 29, 2015, 7:39 AM EST (12:39 UTC)
Expired
Dec 30, 2015, 8:05 PM EST
In force
36 hr
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Major

County Cocke County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:38 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 river

Written for the forecast point Pigeon River at Newport (NEPT1). The gauge peaked at 11.25 ft at Dec 29, 2015, 1:00 PM EST.

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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 Dec 28, 6:24 PM EST, 13 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 28, 6:24 PM EST, 13 hours 15 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 28, 3:32 PM EST, 16 hours 7 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
332 PM EST MON DEC 28 2015

NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-
005-006-008-292045-
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-
332 PM EST MON DEC 28 2015 /232 PM CST MON DEC 28 2015/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NORTH
CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

WITH ABUNDANT RECENT RAINFALL...THE GROUND WILL REMAIN NEAR
SATURATION AS THE NEXT SYSTEM MOVES IN THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT.
THIS COULD LEAD TO ADDITIONAL LOCALIZED FLOODING AS SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS THE REGION. STRONG AND GUSTY
WINDS WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THIS LINE OF SHOWERS...LIKELY DOWNING A
FEW TREES AND POWERLINES. IF YOU SEE FLOODING...TURN AROUND...DON'T
DROWN.

AS THE SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...
STRONG WINDS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS. GUSTS UP
TO 65 MPH ARE EXPECTED FOR THE HIGH TERRAIN AND ADAJCENT
FOOTHILLS...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER GUSTS POSSIBLE. GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH
ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE VALLEY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...

ANOTHER SYSTEM MOVES IN ON WEDNESDAY...WHICH MAY HAVE THE POTENTIAL
TO PRODUCE SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THE HEAVIEST PRECIP WILL LIKELY
OCCUR ACROSS THE EAST TENNESSEE MOUNTAINS...ADJACENT
FOOTHILLS...AND ESPECIALLY ACROSS OUR TWO SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTIES. ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN MAY OCCUR IN THESE AREAS FROM
EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 29, 10:24 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningMRXBledsoe, Marion, Sequatchie21 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2015Every river flood warning in 2015

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.