1,333 first-hand accounts of flood events in Tennessee, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed throughout the day on July 28. During the morning hours, thunderstorms repeatedly developed and moved across areas of Perry, Lewis, and Lawrence Counties, resulting in significant flash flooding.
Read the full account →An upper level low pressure system tracked southeastward from the St. Louis area through the Mid-South on August 17th-18th, 2014. The upper level low interacted with daytime heating to produce showers and thunderstorms across the area during the afternoon and evening hours on…
Read the full account →The News-Herald newspaper office in Lenoir City had 44 inches deep in the basement, destroying several computers, company records and turned a refrigerator on its side. Radio station WLIL was almost swept off its foundation by waters rising from adjacent Town Creek.
Read the full account →Several creeks and streams were out of their banks which caused several evacuations. There were numerous road closures around the county due to high water. The rainfall was estimated to be about 6 inches in 3 hours. It started to rain really hard after 2200 CST.
Read the full account →Excessive rainfall during the first few days of March along with rivers that were already high caused prolonged flooding along the Mississippi and Tennessee rivers as well as their tributaries. Along the Mississippi, the river reached levels that had not been seen since 1937.
Read the full account →An intensifying surface low moved from the Southern Plains into the Great Lakes. Meanwhile the associated strong cold front swept across the Mid-South during the evening hours of January 29, 2013 into the early morning hours of January 30, 2013.
Read the full account →An upper level disturbance slowly approached the Mid-South during the evening of April 30th, 2010 as a cold front became stationary to the west. This pattern remained in place through the evening hours of May 2nd, 2010.
Read the full account →Widespread showers and thunderstorms with heavy rainfall affected Middle Tennessee throughout the day on April 12. Strong gradient winds measured up to 54 mph caused several reports of wind damage, while the 2 to 4 inches of rain that fell across the area resulted in one report…
Read the full account →Four day rainfall totals of two to eight inches fell across east Tennessee, with the highest amounts occurring across the Cumberland Plateau and adjacent valleys areas.
Read the full account →Despite a well developed surface and aloft low pressure center weakening as it continued to move to the east out of the Southern Mississippi River Valley Region, it continued to usher in rich southerly moisture across the region.
Read the full account →An upper level disturbance slowly approached the Mid-South during the evening of April 30th, 2010 as a cold front became stationary to the west. This pattern remained in place through the evening hours of May 2nd, 2010.
Read the full account →An upper level disturbance slowly approached the Mid-South during the evening of April 30th, 2010 as a cold front became stationary to the west. This pattern remained in place through the evening hours of May 2nd, 2010.
Read the full account →An upper level disturbance slowly approached the Mid-South during the evening of April 30th, 2010 as a cold front became stationary to the west. This pattern remained in place through the evening hours of May 2nd, 2010.
Read the full account →Excessive rainfall during the first few days of March along with rivers that were already high caused prolonged flooding along the Mississippi and Tennessee rivers as well as their tributaries. Along the Mississippi, the river reached levels that had not been seen since 1937.
Read the full account →A frontal boundary setup across Western and Middle Tennessee late Friday night (April 30), and remained through the weekend. A persistent southerly flow fed moisture into the area and precipitable water values rose to almost 2 inches, based on data from KOHX upper air…
Read the full account →An upper trough and an associated cold front moved into the Lower Mississippi Valley during the evening of May 21st, 2013. Several rounds of showers and thunderstorms developed ahead of the system affecting the Mid-South.
Read the full account →Widely scattered showers and thunderstorms developed underneath an upper trough axis across Middle Tennessee during the afternoon hours on October 1.
Read the full account →17 counties in Tennessee requested federal assistance due to the flooding. The counties are: Anderson, Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Cumberland, Fentress, Giles, Hardin, Jackson, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, McNairy, Maury, Putnam, Warren and Wayne.Doppler radar estimated as much as 6…
Read the full account →A warm front pushed through West Tennessee during the morning hours with moist and unstable air spreading over the region. An upper level disturbance moving through triggered numerous showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon hours on May 15, 2015.
Read the full account →Four day rainfall totals of two to eight inches fell across east Tennessee, with the highest amounts occurring across the Cumberland Plateau and adjacent valleys areas.
Read the full account →Strong Low pressure tracked from the Southern Plains into the Mid-Mississippi valley while a cold front pressed east toward the Mid-South during the afternoon and evening hours of November 17, 2015.
Read the full account →Four day rainfall totals of two to eight inches fell across east Tennessee, with the highest amounts occurring across the Cumberland Plateau and adjacent valleys areas.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →A quasi-stationary front remained located across Northeast Arkansas, the Missouri Bootheel, and West Tennessee during the period of August 7th-August 8th, 2014.
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