Flash Flood in Jefferson County, Tennessee

Flash Flood August 7, 2023 · Jefferson County, Tennessee

$5K

Damage as recorded

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Rainfall runoff filled the bottom of a concrete stairwell to a bottom floor entry into Jefferson Middle School, seeping into the building and damaging some classrooms.

The wider storm

A highly anomalous pattern for August including an unseasonably intense low pressure system created several hours of severe thunderstorms including the final round of storms that grew upscale into a severe mesoscale convective system.

Began near New Market (36.1127, -83.5119).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Knox County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1133791. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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