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River Flood Warning 8, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this river flood warning at May 27, 2024, 4:43 PM EDT for Cocke County, Tennessee. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2024, 4:43 PM EDT (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2024, 8:19 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 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 20:41 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 8.43 ft at May 27, 2024, 4:00 PM EDT.
- 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 May 27, 2:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 2:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 27, 3:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 27, 1:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell, Morgan, Scott | 52 min |
| May 27, 2:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Campbell, Claiborne, Union | 49 min |
| May 27, 2:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell, Claiborne, Union | 54 min |
| May 27, 2:50 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Anderson, Union | 40 min |
| May 27, 2:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger, Knox, Morgan and 2 more | 48 min |
| May 27, 3:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Grainger, Hancock, Union | 37 min |
| May 27, 3:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Blount, Loudon, Roane | 46 min |
| May 27, 3:14 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Hancock | 46 min |
| May 27, 3:25 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Grainger, Hancock, Hawkins | 27 min |
| May 27, 3:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Marion, Sequatchie | 49 min |
| May 27, 3:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke, Grainger, Hamblen, Hawkins, Jefferson, Knox and 1 more | 30 min |
| May 27, 3:34 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Bledsoe, McMinn, Meigs, Rhea, Sequatchie | 41 min |
| May 27, 3:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger, Greene, Hancock, Hawkins | 49 min |
| May 27, 3:43 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Blount, Sevier | 47 min |
| May 27, 3:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke, Greene, Hawkins, Sevier, Unicoi, Washington | 49 min |
| May 27, 3:57 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Claiborne, Hancock | 3 hr |
| May 27, 4:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Marion, Meigs, Sequatchie | 57 min |
| May 27, 4:19 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Carter, Sullivan, Washington | 56 min |
| May 27, 4:19 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Monroe | 41 min |
| May 27, 4:33 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Sevier | 27 min |
| May 27, 4:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Unicoi | 48 min |
| May 27, 4:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, Polk | 56 min |
| May 27, 4:56 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton | 3 hr |
| May 27, 5:18 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Sevier | 4 hr |
| May 27, 9:31 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Sevier | 119 min |
| May 27, 3:38 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Lee, Scott, Wise, City of Norton | 52 min |
| May 27, 4:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Russell | 61 min |
| May 27, 5:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 53 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.