Significant synoptic scale event produced several inches of rain over much of the area.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.
Significant synoptic scale event produced several inches of rain over much of the area.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jan 15, 6:20 AM EST, 4 hours 21 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
620 AM EST TUE JAN 15 2013
.AVIATION...
CURRENT SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS A QUASI-STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY
GENERALLY ALONG THE SPINE OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS...WITH AN
EXTENSIVE AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN MOVING NORTHEAST UP ALONG
IT. WITH THIS FRONTAL BOUNDARY LINGERING AROUND THE MOUNTAINS TODAY
AND TONIGHT...RAIN AND LOW CLOUDS ARE EXPECTED AT ALL THREE TAF
SITES THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE TAF PERIOD. OVERALL...EXPECT SOME IFR
CONDITIONS THIS MORNING...MVFR CONDITIONS DURING THE AFTERNOON
HOURS...AND THEN IFR CONDITIONS RETURNING AFTER SUNSET.
&&
.MRX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NC...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
CHEROKEE...CLAY.
TN...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
ANDERSON...BLEDSOE...BLOUNT SMOKY MOUNTAINS...BRADLEY...
CAMPBELL...CLAIBORNE...COCKE SMOKY MOUNTAINS...EAST POLK...
GRAINGER...HAMBLEN...HAMILTON...HANCOCK...HAWKINS...
JEFFERSON...JOHNSON...KNOX...LOUDON...MARION...MCMINN...
MEIGS...MORGAN...NW BLOUNT...NORTH SEVIER...NORTHWEST
CARTER...NORTHWEST COCKE...NORTHWEST GREENE...NORTHWEST
MONROE...RHEA...ROANE...SCOTT TN...SEQUATCHIE...SEVIER
SMOKY MOUNTAINS...SOUTHEAST CARTER...SOUTHEAST GREENE...
SOUTHEAST MONROE...SULLIVAN...UNICOI...UNION...WASHINGTON
TN...WEST POLK.
VA...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
LEE...RUSSELL...SCOTT...WASHINGTON...WISE.
&&
DMGHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 500 AM EST TUE JAN 15 2013 NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002- 005-006-008-161000- 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-NW 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-RUSSELL-WASHINGTON- 500 AM EST (400 AM CST) TUE JAN 15 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST TENNESSEE...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE A WIDESPREAD AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING...WITH RAINFALL TOTALS OF TWO TO THREE INCHES WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR EAST TENNESSEE...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED AT TIMES THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING REPORTS. DMG/DH
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 831 AM EST TUE JAN 15 2013 TNZ012-013-035-151500- CAMPBELL TN-MORGAN TN-SCOTT TN- 831 AM EST TUE JAN 15 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MORGAN...CAMPBELL AND SCOTT COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 AM EST... AT 821 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN MOVING ACROSS THE NORTHERN CUMBERLAND PLATEAU THIS MORNING. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. HOURLY RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE NEAR ONE TENTH OF AN INCH. SURFACE TEMPERATURES ARE HOVERING NEAR FREEZING. LIGHT ICE ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE. ROADWAY BRIDGES WILL BE MOST LIKELY TO BECOME ICY. TREES AND POWER LINES MAY ALSO ACCUMULATE SOME LIGHT ICE. 17
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
16 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several roads closed across the county.
Several roads closed across the county.
Several roads closed across the county.
Several homes were flooded.
Several homes in a neighborhood were flooded.
Many roads flooded around Kingsport.
Many roads flooded in and around Madisonville.
Numerous roads closed.
Numerous roads impassable. Five roads washed out.
Several sink holes affecting roadways.
Numerous roads covered with water across the county.
Eight roads reported closed.
Three roads reported closed.
Nine roads closed or impassable.
Stone Fence Lane closed at Forest Springs Drive.
Denzil Bowman Wastewater Treatment Plant experiencing numerous overflows from its collection system.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, January 2013
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 429496, 429497, 429498, 429499, 429500, 429544, 429545, 429507, 429508, 429509, 429510, 429511, 429513, 429537, 429540, 429542.