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Flood — Rutherford, TN

Oct 14, 2014

A large regional severe weather outbreak affected the Tennessee and lower Mississippi Valleys with a mixture of isolated supercells and multicell line segments impacting Middle Tennessee. One supercell thunderstorm moved rapidly northeast across northwest Perry, Humphreys, eastern Houston, and Montgomery Counties, bringing numerous reports of large hail, wind damage, and one EF1 tornado. Other strong to severe thunderstorms brought wind damage and flash flooding to much of the rest of Middle Ten

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 546311). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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