Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2017
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 1, 2017, 3:00 PM EST for Grainger County, Hamblen County, Jefferson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 2017, 3:00 PM EST (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2017, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Grainger County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Jefferson County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 294 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
- 694 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 842 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 344 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 9.1
The text
As transmitted.
472
WGUS54 KMRX 012000
FFWMRX
TNC057-063-089-012300-
/O.NEW.KMRX.FF.W.0003.170301T2000Z-170301T2300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Morristown TN
300 PM EST WED MAR 1 2017
The National Weather Service in Morristown has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Northern Jefferson County in eastern Tennessee...
Central Grainger County in eastern Tennessee...
Hamblen County in eastern Tennessee...
* Until 600 PM EST
* At 300 PM EST, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Up to one inch of rain has
already fallen. Flash flooding is expected to begin shortly.
* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Morristown, Jefferson City, Dandridge, Rutledge, Bean Station,
White Pine, New Market, Russellville, Strawberry Plains, Buffalo
Springs, Panther Creek S.p., Alpha and Lowland.
Additional rainfall amounts of one inch are possible in the warned
area.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
&&
LAT...LON 3624 8308 3619 8314 3617 8319 3613 8319
3615 8323 3613 8322 3613 8324 3612 8324
3609 8323 3603 8364 3604 8367 3609 8371
3608 8367 3611 8369 3626 8354 3631 8326
3628 8323 3632 8320 3631 8318 3633 8315
$$
EJHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 9:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell, Morgan, Roane, Scott | 53 min |
| Mar 1, 10:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger, Knox, Roane and 1 more | 45 min |
| Mar 1, 11:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell, Claiborne, Hancock, Hawkins | 54 min |
| Mar 1, 11:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hancock, Hawkins, Sullivan | 65 min |
| Mar 1, 11:15 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Anderson, Grainger, Jefferson, Knox | 60 min |
| Mar 1, 11:43 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Grainger, Union | 62 min |
| Mar 1, 12:00 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Campbell, Claiborne | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 12:14 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Sullivan, Washington | 46 min |
| Mar 1, 12:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Johnson, Sullivan | 24 min |
| Mar 1, 12:28 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Sullivan, Washington | 62 min |
| Mar 1, 12:52 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Bledsoe, Rhea | 38 min |
| Mar 1, 12:58 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Carter, Johnson, Sullivan, Washington | 62 min |
| Mar 1, 1:04 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Greene, Hamblen, Jefferson | 56 min |
| Mar 1, 1:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter, Johnson, Sullivan, Washington | 54 min |
| Mar 1, 1:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Rhea | 29 min |
| Mar 1, 1:22 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Anderson, Morgan, Roane | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 1:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Blount, Knox, Loudon, Roane | 52 min |
| Mar 1, 1:35 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Anderson, Knox, Loudon, Roane | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 1:51 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Bledsoe, Rhea | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 1:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Hamilton, Marion, Meigs, Rhea, Sequatchie | 62 min |
| Mar 1, 2:06 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Anderson, Grainger, Knox, Union | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 2:07 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Cocke, Hamblen, Jefferson, Knox, Sevier | 53 min |
| Mar 1, 2:22 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Cocke, Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson, Sevier | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 2:28 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Greene, Hawkins | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 2:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Carter, Greene, Unicoi, Washington | 46 min |
| Mar 1, 2:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Marion | 45 min |
| Mar 1, 2:59 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Hamilton, McMinn, Meigs, Rhea | 61 min |
| Mar 1, 3:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Marion | 58 min |
| Mar 1, 3:03 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Blount, Cocke, Jefferson, Loudon, Sevier | 57 min |
| Mar 1, 3:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Knox, Sevier | 30 min |
| Mar 1, 3:30 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Blount, Knox | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:30 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | MRX | McMinn, Monroe | 60 min |
| Mar 1, 3:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Polk | 55 min |
| Mar 1, 3:59 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Carter, Cocke, Greene, Monroe, Sevier, Unicoi | 46 min |
| Mar 1, 4:03 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Hawkins, Sullivan, Washington | 117 min |
| Mar 1, 4:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Monroe | 18 min |
| Mar 1, 4:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Polk | 18 min |
| Mar 1, 4:31 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Cocke, Greene, Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:46 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Blount, Jefferson, Knox, Loudon, Sevier | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.