Flash Flood in Marion County, Tennessee

Flash Flood December 25, 2015 · Marion County, Tennessee

Death

$280K

Damage as recorded

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

What the National Weather Service wrote

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.

The wider storm

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.

Began near South Pittsburg (35.0300, -85.7000).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 613531. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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