Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 2016, 5:26 PM CDT for Bledsoe County, Tennessee. It was in force for 2 hr. 2 reports 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
- Aug 8, 2016, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2016, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Bledsoe County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 5:55 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 5 Ssw Pikeville, TN | SEVERAL ROADWAYS FLOODED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY. |
| Aug 8, 6:10 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 4 Ssw Pikeville, TN | SEVERAL REPORTS OF ROADWAY FLOODING...INCLUDING ON HWY 28/127. |
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 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 939 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
371
WGUS54 KMRX 082226
FFWMRX
TNC007-090030-
/O.NEW.KMRX.FF.W.0009.160808T2226Z-160809T0030Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
526 PM CDT MON AUG 8 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BLEDSOE COUNTY IN EASTERN TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
* AT 525 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
PIKEVILLE...PALIO...FALL CREEK FALLS STATE PARK...BRAYTON AND OLD
CUMBERLAND.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING
SPOTS.
&&
LAT...LON 3557 8542 3567 8531 3562 8505 3557 8511
3553 8510 3552 8513 3550 8514 3548 8512
3545 8515 3545 8517 3536 8523 3546 8537
3550 8541 3552 8541 3554 8543
$$
DH1 follow-up statement
317
WGUS74 KMRX 082313
FFSMRX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
613 PM CDT MON AUG 8 2016
TNC007-090030-
/O.CON.KMRX.FF.W.0009.000000T0000Z-160809T0030Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BLEDSOE TN-
613 PM CDT MON AUG 8 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR
BLEDSOE COUNTY...
AT 610 PM CDT...BLEDSOE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED SEVERAL
ROADWAYS FLOODED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY. MODERATE TO
HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 645 PM.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
PIKEVILLE...PALIO...FALL CREEK FALLS STATE PARK...BRAYTON AND OLD
CUMBERLAND.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO 1 INCH IS POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED
AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING
SPOTS.
&&
LAT...LON 3557 8542 3567 8531 3562 8505 3557 8511
3553 8510 3552 8513 3550 8514 3548 8512
3545 8515 3545 8517 3536 8523 3546 8537
3550 8541 3552 8541 3554 8543
$$
DHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 8:59 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Hamilton, Marion | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 4:45 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Bledsoe, Hamilton, Meigs, Rhea, Sequatchie | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Morgan, Scott | 3 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.