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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Morristown, TN

July 7, 2025Russell County, Virginia

NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 2025, 2:05 PM EDT for Russell County, Virginia. It was in force for 69 min. 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 7, 2025, 2:05 PM EDT (18:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2025, 3:14 PM EDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Russell County, VA

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:07 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 315 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2025-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 671 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2025-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
671 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1104 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 3:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXRoane63 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.