1,333 first-hand accounts of flood events in Tennessee, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Hurricane Katrina had weakened to a tropical storm when it reached West Tennessee. The front porch of a house was torn off in Covington (Tipton County). A satellite dish was torn from the roof of a house and a camper trailer had some windows broken in Covington as well.
Read the full account →Hurricane Katrina had weakened to a tropical storm when it reached West Tennessee. The front porch of a house was torn off in Covington (Tipton County). A satellite dish was torn from the roof of a house and a camper trailer had some windows broken in Covington as well.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms formed in a moist and moderately to strongly unstable air mass situated on the periphery of a large Upper Level High Pressure System over the Ohio Valley. The storms produced mostly wind damage.
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 →The humid air mass over Eastern Tennessee became moderately to strongly unstable ahead of a cold frontal boundary generating damaging winds. In addition, flash flooding developed across parts of the region due to storms moving across already saturated ground from soaking rain…
Read the full account →An outflow boundary from a large thunderstorm complex set off showers and thunderstorms over the Midsouth during the afternoon and evening hours of May 26, 2008. Some of the activity lingered into the morning hours of May 27th.
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 →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 →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 →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 level disturbance interacted with a moist and unstable airmass across West Tennessee to produce numerous showers and thunderstorms during the morning of May 10, 2013.
Read the full account →Rainfall of between 5 and 11 inches fell on West Tennessee between November 26 and November 29. This produced widespread flooding across the region. Numerous roads were closed. Numerous homes and businesses flooded with as much as 6' of water in some houses.
Read the full account →Mill Creek was 6 feet over its banks at the intersection of Thompson Lane and Glen Rose at 1019 AM CST in Davidson County. Water covered state Highway 96 in Rutherford County. Several homes were flooded in the Walter Hill Subdivision.
Read the full account →Mill Creek was 6 feet over its banks at the intersection of Thompson Lane and Glen Rose at 1019 AM CST in Davidson County. Water covered state Highway 96 in Rutherford County. Several homes were flooded in the Walter Hill Subdivision.
Read the full account →Mill Creek was 6 feet over its banks at the intersection of Thompson Lane and Glen Rose at 1019 AM CST in Davidson County. Water covered state Highway 96 in Rutherford County. Several homes were flooded in the Walter Hill Subdivision.
Read the full account →Mill Creek was 6 feet over its banks at the intersection of Thompson Lane and Glen Rose at 1019 AM CST in Davidson County. Water covered state Highway 96 in Rutherford County. Several homes were flooded in the Walter Hill Subdivision.
Read the full account →A strong synoptic system with heavy rainfall during warm front passage followed by additional rainfall during the severe thunderstorms along the cold front led to reports of flooding in northern portions of East Tennessee.
Read the full account →A strong synoptic system with heavy rainfall during warm front passage followed by additional rainfall during the severe thunderstorms along the cold front led to reports of flooding in northern portions of East Tennessee.
Read the full account →A strong synoptic system with heavy rainfall during warm front passage followed by additional rainfall during the severe thunderstorms along the cold front led to reports of flooding in northern portions of East Tennessee.
Read the full account →A strong synoptic system with heavy rainfall during warm front passage followed by additional rainfall during the severe thunderstorms along the cold front led to reports of flooding in northern portions of East Tennessee.
Read the full account →A strong synoptic system with heavy rainfall during warm front passage followed by additional rainfall during the severe thunderstorms along the cold front led to reports of flooding in northern portions of East Tennessee.
Read the full account →A strong synoptic system with heavy rainfall during warm front passage followed by additional rainfall during the severe thunderstorms along the cold front led to reports of flooding in northern portions of East Tennessee.
Read the full account →A strong synoptic system with heavy rainfall during warm front passage followed by additional rainfall during the severe thunderstorms along the cold front led to reports of flooding in northern portions of East Tennessee.
Read the full account →A strong synoptic system with heavy rainfall during warm front passage followed by additional rainfall during the severe thunderstorms along the cold front led to reports of flooding in northern portions of East Tennessee.
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