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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Feb 3, 2016, 6:03 AM EST for Loudon County, Tennessee. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 2016, 6:03 AM EST (11:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2016, 9:00 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Loudon County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:05 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 6:05 AM EST | FLASH FLOOD | Loudon, TN | REPORT OF SUBMERGED VEHICLE ON I-75 NEAR MILE MARK 67-68. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1227 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 479 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 645 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
076
WGUS54 KMRX 031103
FFWMRX
TNC105-031400-
/O.NEW.KMRX.FF.W.0002.160203T1103Z-160203T1400Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
603 AM EST WED FEB 3 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
LOUDON COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 900 AM EST
* AT 603 AM EST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
LENOIR CITY...LOUDON...VONORE...GREENBACK...FRIENDSVILLE AND
PHILADELPHIA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3567 8432 3565 8440 3567 8443 3567 8450
3565 8452 3562 8450 3563 8459 3576 8445
3575 8444 3577 8439 3589 8433 3588 8428
3590 8428 3581 8417 3577 8418 3575 8416
3571 8417 3564 8414 3561 8419
$$
05/MAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 2:37 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Hamilton, Marion, Sequatchie | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 3:00 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Bledsoe | 45 min |
| Feb 3, 3:05 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Sequatchie | 40 min |
| Feb 3, 3:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Marion, Sequatchie | 40 min |
| Feb 3, 3:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Hamilton, McMinn, Meigs, Rhea, Sequatchie | 45 min |
| Feb 3, 3:52 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Marion, Sequatchie | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 4:17 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Meigs, Rhea | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 4:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Blount, Knox, Loudon, Monroe, Roane | 41 min |
| Feb 3, 4:56 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Claiborne, Grainger, Jefferson, Knox, Union | 49 min |
| Feb 3, 5:06 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Monroe, Polk | 39 min |
| Feb 3, 5:30 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton, Loudon, McMinn, Monroe, Polk and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 6:08 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Anderson, Blount, Knox, Sevier | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 6:43 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Sequatchie | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 6:50 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 7:22 AM EST | River Flood Warning | MRX | Hamilton | 56 hr |
| Feb 3, 7:28 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | MRX | Meigs, Rhea | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 7:32 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Carter, Hancock, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 8:23 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton, Loudon, McMinn, Monroe, Polk and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 8:53 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Loudon | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 9:16 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Blount, Knox, Sevier | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 9:46 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 10:29 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Carter, Hancock, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 1:02 PM EST | River Flood Warning | MRX | Cocke, Jefferson | 30 hr |
| Feb 3, 1:02 PM EST | River Flood Warning | MRX | Cocke | 37 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.