7 February 2019
At least one person has died (click here) in flash flooding in Tennessee after a storm system brought record-breaking rain to the Nashville area.
National Weather Service Nashville reported around 40 instances of flash flooding in Wilson, Davidson, Dickson and Cheatham County, where one person reportedly died in flood water from the overflowing Pond Creek near Pegram. Roads and schools have been closed in affected areas.
Nashville recorded 4.00 inches / 101.6mm of rain on Wednesday, 06 February, 2019. This breaks the daily rainfall record for 06 February, which was 1.73 inches / 43.94mm set in 1884. It also exceeds the normal monthly rainfall for February, which is 3.94 inches / 100 mm.
NWS Nashville said via Social Media, “Just how rare is a 4″ rain in Nashville? Consider that in 149 years of record keeping, yesterday was just the 21st time Nashville has measured 4″ of rain in a single day. In other words, what happened yesterday occurs on average once every 7 years.”
The Harpeth River near Kingston Springs reached 24.68 feet early on 07 February, just under the moderate flood stage of 25 feet.
The flood list for the USA consists of 27 e-pages with approximately 11 entries per page. Modern history extends back to 2013. There are floods such as Katrina that are not listed on this entry. I don't really consider it complete. It mentions two historic floods, but, the current flood list is far too long to include everything. There is rarely a day in the USA that does not witness a flood or communities that continue to recover from one.
January 25, 2019
By Melinda DeSlatte
Baton Rouge — Louisiana (click here) welcomed federal flood-protection money in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in a deal that didn’t require the state to begin repaying its share for a decade. But now that bill is coming due, and it has ballooned to a dismaying $3 billion because of accumulated interest.
The looming payments have Louisiana officials worried the debt will steer money away from other risk-reduction projects in a vulnerable state worried about the next killer storm. And the debt threatens to create new budget woes in a state where the governor and lawmakers reached a hard-fought tax deal that just returned Louisiana to budget stability....
This is exactly what scientists have been warning about since the 1960s; "The country cannot afford the repairs to the damage that is coming."
The picture below is from Cookeville, Tennessee. The flooding was significant. It was so significant that a Fire Department and it's truck were caught in a flash flood while trying to put out a house fire.
February 8, 2019Heavy rain, (click here) thunderstorms and deadly flooding on the warm side of Winter Storm Lucian were causing trouble from Arkansas and southern Missouri and southern Illinois into Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Kentucky.
In addition to the flooding, the storm system spawned at least six tornadoes, most of which were rated EF0, the weakest on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.
Arkansas
The storms caused damage across northern Arkansas early Thursday. Trees and power lines were knocked down and several people were trapped inside damaged structures in Marion County, KATV reported, after tornado warnings were issued around 4:30 a.m. local time.
A preliminary damage survey from the National Weather Service found EF1 damage in Marion County....
...Indiana...
...Southbound Interstate 65 in Bartholomew County, about 5 miles north of Columbus, was blocked by a jackknifed tractor trailer, the Indiana State Patrol reported. Several water-related crashes were reported along Interstate 74, where clogged drains caused water to back up onto the road.
In southwestern Indiana, the NWS confirmed an EF0 tornado was in progress near the town of Decker on Thursday.
Kentucky
Officials in Harlan County declared a state of emergency after a mudslide closed a lane of State Highway 72 and threatened as many as 300 nearby homes, WKYT.com reported. The emergency declaration is an attempt to secure state funding in order to prevent a larger mudslide from happening, the report added.
In Henderson County, the NWS said an EF1 tornado was in progress late Thursday just north of the town of Robards. The twister had maximum winds of 100 mph and stayed on the ground for two minutes.
Tennessee
The NWS confirmed a pair of EF0 tornadoes were in progress Wednesday in Tennessee. The first touched down just after 2:30 p.m. local time south of Milton in Rutherford County, and the second twister was in progress a few minutes before 10 p.m. in Wilson County, east of Nashville....
