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Flash Flood Warning 57, NWS Morristown, TN

August 9, 2026Campbell County, Tennessee

NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2026, 3:51 PM EDT for Campbell County, Tennessee. It was in force for 82 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
Aug 9, 2026, 3:51 PM EDT (19:51 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2026, 5:13 PM EDT
In force
82 min
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Campbell County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2026-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1450 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 12:00Z on 2026-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -23 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
1450 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
794 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 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
Aug 9, 3:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXCampbell34 min
Aug 9, 3:31 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXRhea17 min
Aug 9, 3:33 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXCampbell18 min
Aug 9, 3:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXRhea85 min
Aug 9, 3:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXMorgan46 min
Aug 9, 4:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXRhea50 min
Aug 9, 4:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXHamblen49 min
Aug 9, 4:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXSevier45 min
Aug 9, 4:43 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXBlount, Sevier86 min
Aug 9, 4:58 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXKnox2 hr
Aug 9, 4:59 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXMcMinn, Monroe, Polk2 hr
Aug 9, 5:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXJefferson41 min
Aug 9, 5:42 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXCarter, Unicoi, Washington3 hr
Aug 9, 6:58 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMRXSullivan14 min
Aug 9, 7:12 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXCarter, Sullivan, Washington88 min
Aug 9, 6:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXCity of Bristol40 min
Aug 9, 7:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXWashington44 min
Aug 9, 2:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMRXClay34 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.