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Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Morristown, TN

September 26, 20249 counties in Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 26, 2024, 11:52 PM EDT for 9 counties in 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 26, 2024, 11:52 PM EDT (03:52 UTC)
Expired
Sep 27, 2024, 2:45 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Anderson County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN, Roane County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 250 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2024-09-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 47 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2024-09-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 121 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
47 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
168 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 Sep 26, 9:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 26, 9:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 27, 4:18 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXHamilton, Marion, Sequatchie5 hr
Sep 27, 4:47 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningMRXBlount, Cocke, Sevier6 hr
Sep 27, 7:44 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXHamilton, Marion, Sequatchie4 hr
Sep 27, 8:50 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningMRXCarter, Greene, Johnson, Unicoi3 hr
Sep 27, 9:14 AM EDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyConsiderable damage threatMRXCarter, Unicoi11 hr
Sep 27, 9:35 AM EDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threatMRXJohnson10 hr
Sep 27, 10:02 AM EDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threatMRXCarter, Unicoi, Washington7 hr
Sep 27, 10:36 AM EDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatMRXCocke, Sevier7 hr
Sep 27, 11:01 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningMRXHamilton22 hr
Sep 27, 11:26 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningMRXCarter15 hr
Sep 27, 12:02 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningMRXSevier21 hr
Sep 27, 2:29 PM EDTWind AdvisoryMRXBlount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Monroe and 3 more24 hr
Sep 27, 2:58 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXHancock, Hawkins2 hr
Sep 27, 3:30 PM EDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threatMRXCocke, Hamblen, Jefferson64 min
Sep 27, 4:54 PM EDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threatMRXCarter, Greene, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington3 hr
Sep 27, 6:01 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningMRXCocke, Greene, Jefferson, Sevier16 hr
Sep 27, 6:25 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningMRXSullivan16 hr
Sep 27, 7:29 PM EDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threatMRXJohnson6 hr
Sep 27, 7:38 PM EDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threatMRXCarter, Johnson, Unicoi, Washington6 hr
Sep 27, 7:50 PM EDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threatMRXCarter, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington6 hr
Sep 27, 11:13 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXRussell, Scott, Washington, Wise, City of Bristol, City of Norton4 hr
Sep 27, 2:43 PM EDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threatMRXWashington, City of Bristol5 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.