Flash Flood — Marion, Tennessee

2015-12-25 · near South Pittsburg, Marion, Tennessee

Event narrative

Roads flooded. Businesses flooded downtown as water rushed down South Pittsburg Mountain into the community. Flood waters contained debris. One fatality occurred as an onlooker was swept into an underground culvert.

Wider weather episode

Another unseasonably warm and moist air mass was prompted by deep upper level troughing over the Central Plains states, and a slow moving cold front over middle and western Tennessee. Heavy rain falling upon nearly saturated soils resulted in widespread flooding.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 613531. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.