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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Morristown, TN

August 2, 20245 counties in Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2024, 7:06 PM EDT for 5 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 2 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: Aug 2, 2024, 7:06 PM EDT (23:06 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2024, 9:13 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Morristown, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Claiborne County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Union County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 285 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: 1548 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 961 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 2.9

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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 Aug 2, 3:13 PM EDT, 3 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 3:13 PM EDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 3:22 PM EDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 2, 6:10 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 2, 6:17 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 2, 6:21 PM EDT, 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 2, 6:31 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 6:40 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 7:01 PM EDT, 5 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
Aug 1, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Claiborne, Hancock	46 min
Aug 1, 8:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Anderson, Claiborne, Knox, Union	52 min
Aug 1, 8:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson, Knox, Union	50 min
Aug 1, 9:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson, Blount, Knox, Loudon	41 min
Aug 1, 9:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Claiborne, Grainger, Hancock, Jefferson, Union	52 min
Aug 1, 9:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins and 1 more	49 min
Aug 1, 9:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins and 1 more	47 min
Aug 1, 9:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Blount, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Jefferson and 3 more	57 min
Aug 1, 10:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Greene, Hamblen	45 min
Aug 1, 10:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Blount, Cocke, Sevier	62 min
Aug 2, 1:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Carter, Greene, Hawkins, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi and 1 more	113 min
Aug 2, 1:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Carter, Sullivan, Washington	5 hr
Aug 2, 2:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Campbell	53 min
Aug 2, 3:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Campbell, Scott	4 hr
Aug 2, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Scott	41 min
Aug 2, 3:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Greene	4 hr
Aug 2, 4:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Claiborne	39 min
Aug 2, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hawkins	38 min
Aug 2, 4:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Scott	41 min
Aug 2, 4:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MRX	Claiborne, Hancock, Hawkins, Union	2 hr
Aug 2, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson, Campbell, Scott, Union	26 min
Aug 2, 5:18 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	MRX	Claiborne	3 hr
Aug 2, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Hancock	39 min
Aug 2, 5:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Campbell, Claiborne, Hancock, Hawkins, Union	3 hr
Aug 2, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Campbell	52 min
Aug 2, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson, Campbell, Scott	27 min
Aug 2, 6:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Grainger, Hamblen	50 min
Aug 2, 7:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Anderson, Union	44 min
Aug 2, 7:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Anderson, Campbell, Knox, Morgan, Scott, Union	3 hr
Aug 2, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Grainger, Union	51 min
Aug 1, 9:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	City of Norton	38 min
Aug 2, 11:32 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Lee, Scott, Wise, City of Norton	43 min
Aug 2, 12:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Wise, City of Norton	49 min
Aug 2, 12:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	City of Bristol	52 min
Aug 2, 1:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Washington, City of Bristol	65 min
Aug 2, 1:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Washington	34 min
Aug 2, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MRX	Lee	43 min

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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.