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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this red flag warning at Mar 14, 2025, 2:58 PM EDT for 9 counties in Tennessee. It took effect at Mar 15, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 15 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
- Mar 14, 2025, 2:58 PM EDT (18:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 15, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2025, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
Counties Blount County, TN, Carter County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Greene County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Unicoi County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 305 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 995 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Mar 14, 1:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 1:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Morristown TN 436 AM EDT Fri Mar 14 2025 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-150845- 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- 436 AM EDT Fri Mar 14 2025 /336 AM CDT Fri Mar 14 2025/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of southwest North Carolina...east Tennessee and southwest Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Southerly winds will be increasing this afternoon and evening. Downslope winds will be especially strong in the mountains and foothills with gusts up to 70 mph possible tonight. See High Wind Warning for details. A few strong to severe storms will be possible late tonight mainly along and west of I-75. The primary threat will be gusty winds if storms hold together this far east. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday High winds will continue in the mountains and foothills through Saturday night with winds up to 80 mph by the evening. This will also raise concerns for the spread of any ongoing wildfires in the region. See the High Wind Warning now in effect for more details. A severe weather outbreak is likely across portions of the eastern United States Saturday into Saturday night with the greatest threat in east Tennesse being along the Cumberland Plateau, southeast Tennessee, and southwest North Carolina. Widespread and significant damaging winds are likely. There is also a threat for tornadoes and large hail. Some details regarding the severe weather threat remain uncertain, so stay tuned to the forecast for additional updates. Also, with multiple rounds of storms, there is a threat for flash flooding by Saturday evening, especially west of Interstate 75. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter reports may be needed this weekend with any severe thunderstorms and flash flooding Saturday.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 14, 9:18 AM EDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 10:43 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Marion, Sequatchie | 3 days |
| Mar 14, 1:02 PM EDT | Flood Watch | MRX | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Claiborne and 14 more | 43 hr |
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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.