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Flash Flood Warning 64, NWS Morristown, TN

August 24, 2025Meigs County, Roane County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 24, 2025, 12:45 AM EDT for Meigs County, Roane County, 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 24, 2025, 12:45 AM EDT (04:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 2025, 2:45 AM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Meigs County, TN, Roane County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:47 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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 339 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, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2025-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 913 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2025-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 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
913 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1198 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 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 Aug 23, 7:20 PM EDT, 5 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 7:20 PM EDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 23, 1:37 PM EDT, 11 hours 8 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Morristown TN
137 PM EDT Sat Aug 23 2025

NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-
005-006-008-241745-
Cherokee-Clay-Scott TN-Campbell-Claiborne-Hancock-Hawkins-
Sullivan-Johnson-Morgan-Anderson-Union-Grainger-Hamblen-
Northwest Cocke-Cocke Smoky Mountains-Northwest Greene-
Southeast Greene-Washington TN-Unicoi-Northwest Carter-
Southeast Carter-Roane-Loudon-Knox-Jefferson-Northwest Blount-
Blount Smoky Mountains-North Sevier-Sevier Smoky Mountains-
Sequatchie-Bledsoe-Rhea-Meigs-McMinn-Northwest Monroe-
Southeast Monroe-Marion-Hamilton-Bradley-West Polk-East Polk-Lee-
Wise-Scott VA-Russell-Washington VA-
137 PM EDT Sat Aug 23 2025 /1237 PM CDT Sat Aug 23 2025/

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of southwest North
Carolina...east Tennessee and southwest Virginia.

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight

Scattered showers and storms are likely this afternoon and
evening. Due to recent heavy rainfall and abundant moisture,
localized flash flooding is possible.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Reports of flooding are encouraged this afternoon and evening.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 23, 6:58 PM EDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 23, 7:17 PM EDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 23, 7:48 PM EDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 8:07 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXMarion, Sequatchie113 min
Aug 23, 8:48 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXAnderson117 min
Aug 23, 10:08 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXKnox2 hr
Aug 23, 10:41 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXBlount2 hr
Aug 23, 11:12 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXBledsoe, Rhea2 hr
Aug 23, 11:23 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXMeigs, Roane2 hr
Aug 23, 11:41 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXSevier2 hr
Aug 24, 12:03 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXBlount, Knox, Loudon, Roane117 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.