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Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2026, 7:12 PM EDT for Carter County, Sullivan County, Washington County, Tennessee; Washington County, City of Bristol, Virginia. It was in force for 88 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, 7:12 PM EDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2026, 8:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Carter County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Washington County, TN, City of Bristol, VA, Washington County, VA
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 794 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 3:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Campbell | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 3:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Rhea | 17 min |
| Aug 9, 3:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Campbell | 18 min |
| Aug 9, 3:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Rhea | 85 min |
| Aug 9, 3:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Campbell | 82 min |
| Aug 9, 3:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Morgan | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 4:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Rhea | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Hamblen | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Sevier | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 4:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Blount, Sevier | 86 min |
| Aug 9, 4:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Knox | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 4:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | McMinn, Monroe, Polk | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 5:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Jefferson | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 5:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Carter, Unicoi, Washington | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 6:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MRX | Sullivan | 14 min |
| Aug 9, 6:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | City of Bristol | 40 min |
| Aug 9, 7:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Washington | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 2:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MRX | Clay | 34 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.