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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Morristown, TN

July 5, 2022Cherokee County, North Carolina

NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2022, 1:01 AM EDT for Cherokee County, North Carolina. 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 5, 2022, 1:01 AM EDT (05:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2022, 4:00 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Cherokee County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:03 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 nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 200 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1376 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1251 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood warning went out at Jul 4, 10:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 10:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 58 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
Jul 5, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Johnson	46 min
Jul 5, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Carter, Sullivan	49 min
Jul 5, 5:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Carter, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington	28 min
Jul 5, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Hawkins	39 min
Jul 5, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Greene, Hawkins, Sullivan, Washington	47 min
Jul 5, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Unicoi	52 min
Jul 5, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Sevier	51 min
Jul 5, 6:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Carter, Johnson, Sullivan	3 hr
Jul 5, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Campbell, Claiborne	41 min
Jul 5, 6:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Scott	38 min
Jul 5, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Scott	25 min
Jul 5, 7:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Campbell	41 min
Jul 5, 7:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Scott	3 hr
Jul 5, 7:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Anderson, Knox	42 min
Jul 5, 7:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson, Blount, Knox	48 min
Jul 5, 3:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Wise, City of Norton	35 min
Jul 5, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Wise, City of Norton	42 min
Jul 5, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Russell, Washington	52 min
Jul 5, 4:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Wise, City of Norton	3 hr
Jul 5, 5:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Russell, Scott, Washington, City of Bristol	3 hr
Jul 5, 12:35 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Cherokee	26 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.