Mar 21, 2017
A line of severe thunderstorms called a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) moved across Middle Tennessee on Tuesday, March 21, 2017, impacting areas mainly south of Interstate 40. This MCS moved into Middle Tennessee around 230 PM CDT, and additional scattered thunderstorms also developed out ahead of the MCS. Numerous reports of large hail and damaging winds were received with these storms before all of the storms exited the area by early evening.||Due to high amounts of instability in the atmos
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 687936). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Rutherford County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.