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River Flood Warning 15, NWS Morristown, TN

October 8, 2017Cocke County, Jefferson County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this river flood warning at Oct 8, 2017, 9:59 AM EDT for Cocke County, Jefferson County, Tennessee. It took effect at Oct 9, 2017, 5:55 PM EDT. It was in force for 28 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 8, 2017, 9:59 AM EDT (13:59 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 9, 2017, 5:55 PM EDT
Expired
Oct 10, 2017, 9:38 PM EDT
In force
28 hr
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Cocke County, TN, Jefferson County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 French Broad River near Newport (NWPT1).

Action stage
8 ft
Minor stage
10 ft
Moderate stage
16 ft
Major stage
20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03455000, 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 Oct 7, 7:31 PM EDT, 14 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 7, 7:31 PM EDT, 14 hours 28 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 8, 3:38 AM EDTHigh Wind WarningMRXBlount, Cocke, Greene, Monroe, Sevier24 hr
Oct 8, 9:59 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningMRXCocke45 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2017Every river flood warning in 2017

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.