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Between midnight and 10:00 am CDT on Saturday, August 21, 2021, very heavy rainfall resulted in widespread flash flooding across western Middle Tennessee, including the town of Waverly. During the event, much of a five-county area received up to a quarter of normal annual rainfall in under twelve hours, as much as 10 to 15 inches (250 to 380 mm ...
Douglas Dam was spilling a record amount of water, 450,000 gallons a second. The Nolichucky Dam withstood twice the water flow of Niagara Falls.
One of the employees who died, Bertha Mendoza, 56, fell off the truck and vanished into the flood, according to Ingram and a representative from Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition.
There's a reason they're called flash floods. "That water came up so fast," Kenny Miller told AccuWeather. Miller said he was nearly swept away by forceful floodwaters in Waverly, Tennessee ...
Nevertheless, the dams cannot prevent all floods. In May 2003, for example, heavy rains exceeded TVA’s dam capacity, flooding low-lying areas in Chattanooga and other parts of Hamilton County; in 2010, high flows in the Cumberland River flooded Nashville". [2] In March 2021, the state was affected by flooding, causing at least 7 fatalities. [7]
Tennessee flooding map shows towns, dams and rivers impacted by Hurricane Helene Tennessee River to stay brown through next week as Helene sediment flows by Knoxville
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The Tennessee Valley Authority released new data showing the historic impact of Hurricane Helene flooding on its system of dams in East Tennessee, which stored 404 billion gallons of water and ...