1,333 first-hand accounts of flood events in Tennessee, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Several days of excessive heat for Middle Tennessee was finally about to come to an end as a cold front approached from the northwest. Thunderstorms developed ahead of this front that moved into western portions of Middle Tennessee during the late afternoon.
Read the full account →Several days of excessive heat for Middle Tennessee was finally about to come to an end as a cold front approached from the northwest. Thunderstorms developed ahead of this front that moved into western portions of Middle Tennessee during the late afternoon.
Read the full account →Several days of excessive heat for Middle Tennessee was finally about to come to an end as a cold front approached from the northwest. Thunderstorms developed ahead of this front that moved into western portions of Middle Tennessee during the late afternoon.
Read the full account →The hardest hit areas in Giles county were the northern and western sections from this flash flood episode.Considerable damage was reported from high water in those areas from the flash flood in newspaper clippings.
Read the full account →A strong cold front that had moved into Middle Tennessee on May 1st moved north as a warm front during the afternoon hours to near the Tennessee/Kentucky Border on May 2nd.
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 →As a slow moving cold front moved west to east across Middle Tennesssee during the late morning through afternoon hours on Sunday, January 13th, an area of showers and thunderstorms developed along and ahead of this cold front.
Read the full account →Governor Phil Bredesen has requested a federal designation of agricultural disaster for 22 counties in East and Middle Tennessee to help farmers who suffered agricultural and property damages as a result of recent storms in September and October.
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 →A decaying MCS/MCV moved through the Mid-South during the overnight/early morning hours of May 22. A slow moving cold front was stretched over the Missouri Bootheel and moisture surged northward allowing for plentiful instability.
Read the full account →A decaying MCS/MCV moved through the Mid-South during the overnight/early morning hours of May 22. A slow moving cold front was stretched over the Missouri Bootheel and moisture surged northward allowing for plentiful instability.
Read the full account →An area of thunderstorms moved into eastern Tennessee during the afternoon hours on May 2, 2025. Damaging wind reports were seen throughout the Cumberland plateau and Tennessee valley, but the strongest storms and greatest concentration of severe weather reports were mainly in…
Read the full account →An area of thunderstorms moved into eastern Tennessee during the afternoon hours on May 2, 2025. Damaging wind reports were seen throughout the Cumberland plateau and Tennessee valley, but the strongest storms and greatest concentration of severe weather reports were mainly in…
Read the full account →An area of thunderstorms moved into eastern Tennessee during the afternoon hours on May 2, 2025. Damaging wind reports were seen throughout the Cumberland plateau and Tennessee valley, but the strongest storms and greatest concentration of severe weather reports were mainly in…
Read the full account →Hurricane Francine made landfall in Louisiana on September 11, 2024, and then moved into the southeast United States. While its path remained to the west of Middle Tennessee, heavy rainbands did bring rain to portions of the area.
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 →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 →A large area of showers and thunderstorms covered most of Middle Tennessee during the early afternoon through the mid evening hours as a strong cold front moved from the Ohio Valley into Middle Tennessee, resulting in two EF1 Tornadoes, heavy rainfall, flash flooding, large…
Read the full account →From the mid morning hours through the early evening hours on Tuesday, May 29th, across ten counties in Middle Tennessee, as successive lines of showers and thunderstorms moved through during the mid morning hours and through the afternoon hours respectively, some thunderstorms…
Read the full account →A strong cold front that had moved in Middle Tennessee on May 1st moved north as a warm front during the afternoon hours near the Tennessee/Kentucky Border, and in association with a strong low pressure system that had developed across central Arkansas, resulted in flash…
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 →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 →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 →An outflow boundary from a complex of thunderstorms building across the Mid South interacted with moderate to strongly unstable air across Eastern Tennessee mainly north of interstate 40.
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