Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings / 1997
Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, May 1997
11 flash flood warnings in May 1997. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.
Flash Flood Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Warnings
- 11
- Busiest day
- May 3, 19977 flash flood warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Cumberland, Fentress, Morgan, Scott | 6 hr |
| May 3, 2:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton, Meigs, Rhea | 6 hr |
| May 3, 2:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Campbell, Claiborne | 6 hr |
| May 3, 2:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Anderson, Grainger, Knox, Union | 5 hr |
| May 3, 2:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Blount, Loudon, Monroe, Sevier | 5 hr |
| May 3, 2:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | McMinn, Polk | 5 hr |
| May 3, 2:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Roane | 5 hr |
| May 19, 5:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Williamson | 2 hr |
| May 26, 9:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Carter, Sullivan | 3 hr |
| May 26, 10:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Johnson | 3 hr |
| May 27, 4:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Rhea | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Rhea County2
- Cumberland County1
- Fentress County1
- Morgan County1
- Scott County1
- Bradley County1
- Hamilton County1
- Meigs County1
- Campbell County1
- Claiborne County1
- Anderson County1
- Grainger County1
- Knox County1
- Union County1
- Blount County1
- Loudon County1
- Monroe County1
- Sevier County1
- McMinn County1
- Polk County1
- Roane County1
- Williamson County1
- Carter County1
- Sullivan County1
- Johnson County1
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.