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River Flood Warning 24, NWS Morristown, TN

December 26, 2018Cocke County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this river flood warning at Dec 26, 2018, 12:09 PM EST for Cocke County, Tennessee. It took effect at Dec 28, 2018, 9:18 AM EST. It was in force for 29 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 26, 2018, 12:09 PM EST (17:09 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 28, 2018, 9:18 AM EST
Expired: Dec 29, 2018, 2:38 PM EST
In force: 29 hr
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Cocke County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Pigeon River at Newport (NEPT1). The gauge peaked at 16.75 ft at Dec 28, 2018, 5:00 PM EST.

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 26, 12:05 PM EST, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 26, 12:05 PM EST, 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 26, 4:15 AM EST, 7 hours 54 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 26, 4:02 AM EST	High Wind Watch	MRX	Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Monroe, Sevier and 1 more	12 hr
Dec 26, 4:02 AM EST	Wind Advisory	MRX	Bledsoe, Campbell, Marion, Morgan, Polk, Scott and 1 more	57 hr
Dec 26, 12:09 PM EST	River Flood Warning	MRX	Cocke, Jefferson	4 days
Dec 26, 3:42 PM EST	Flash Flood Watch	MRX	Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 27 more	48 hr
Dec 26, 3:42 PM EST	High Wind Warning	MRX	Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Monroe and 2 more	45 hr

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.