Holston_River_Rambler

WBIR reporting 3.08 inches since midnight (First creek watershed). Janetjanet, we may indeed make a run at the record. Just looking at pictures on WBIR and it looks like parts of first creek are already flooding some parking lots on Broadway. Cars stuck in parking lots with rising water, reports of a road "giving way" and a fire truck sinking into the creek.

I remember in maybe 2011, Broadway near downtown turned into a river. This event is trying it's hardest.

Yeah, I thought we'd dodged the bullet here after watching the models yesterday. If some of those training storms right now over W. TN consolidate into some sort of a new firehose and training line, it will not be good. RGEM kind of shows that and HRRR, as poor as its placement with precip and evolution has been, is starting to hint at it too.

First creek as it spills into the Tennessee: Several images from First, Second, and third creeks: First creek is out of its banks in places and covering 6th ave. Police are stationed there to keep people out. Third is running over Tyson Park and Concord Ave. The entire playground is partially under water.

1st and 3rd creeks look ugly. Pics soon.

Urban flooding in N Knoxville now. Just saw video of a section of road completely submerged and a fire truck half covered in water and tipping over

Looks like it is all trying to lift out, but I'm not real happy with the orientation the band is taking: And look at those storms popping around Arklatex....

Not only is I 40 closed now, but also 441 Newfound Gap: No explanation that I can find on the NP website or GSMNP road specific twitter account.

Much of central E TN now upgraded to a flood warning.

6z Euro

For posterity, the whole valley just looks ugly this AM:

Flash Flood Statement National Weather Service Nashville TN 603 AM CST Sat Feb 23 2019 TNC055-099-181-231300- /O.CON.KOHX.FF.W.0017.000000T0000Z-190223T1300Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ Wayne TN-Lawrence TN-Giles TN- 603 AM CST Sat Feb 23 2019 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CST FOR WAYNE...LAWRENCE AND GILES COUNTIES... At 601 AM CST, local law enforcement reported a water rescue of a family from a home in the Prospect community of southern Giles County. Radar indicates moderate to heavy rain continues across the warned area this morning, with additional showers and thunderstorms extending well off to the southwest through northwest Alabama and northern Mississippi. Flash flooding is expected to continue for several more hours. Some locations that will experience flooding include... Lawrenceburg, Pulaski, Waynesboro, Loretto, Collinwood, Summertown, Clifton, Ardmore, St. Joseph, Elkton, Minor Hill, Ethridge, Lynnville, Henryville, Cypress Inn, Flatwoods, Lutts, Goodspring, Leoma and Westpoint. This includes Interstate 65 between mile markers 1 and 22.

Ah firehose, how I've missed you. Looks like the NAM muffed this one yesterday for E TN. The RGEM did a little better and sadly as of the 6z run keeps the rain going all day long (small break around 3 -5 PM maybe) until the cold front and storms finally pass.

For posterity, just an amazing number of watches/ warnings for individual rivers in E. TN:

Yeah, first thing I did when I saw that radar was look at the HRRR and thought, "seriously?" NAM has some areas getting to an inch by 10 tonight and even that looks low compared to the actual radar.

Looking at radar, it looks like some areas may have absolutely no trouble hitting an inch in 3 hours this evening.

Looks like Cumberland Falls flow has increased dramatically since I was there last week. Much higher and there won't be a waterfall anymore. If you've never been there it's hard to express how high the water would hav to be.

Highway 70 mudslide in Hawkins county. Been a long time since I've heard of a mudslide in our area closing a highway. A wreck associated with it: https://www.wvlt.tv/content/news/Mudslide-shuts-down-High-70-in-Hawkins-County-506145721.html

I'm not saying it looks great in any way, but having 5 - 6" inches fall over half the watershed instead of all the watershed has to be better in some small way. Getting emails from the Euro people so I'm being a little more descriptive with their non-free maps for a bit.

and of course as soon as I write this, more convective showers start to develop.

Whoever that is should face prosecution if it was malicious.

I'm all for any dry air we can get at this point. Every little bit will help. For my neck of the woods, very happy the intense rain seems to have evaporated on radar as it pushed off the plateau this afternoon. Even though that may not help areas downstream now, hopefully it helps some in the long run.

Yeah, Beaver Creek seems like it is almost in a perpetual mini flood, even when it is relatively dry. Still, it's something to see it lapping up against the high voltage towers as you drive down Emory toward Clinton highway.

Thankfully Euro shows only one more (admittedly long-lived) system to endure after this one before we get a break. Unfortunately it also shows a general 5-6" with a dollop of 8" inches over central/ western TN and central KY in an axis running from around N. MS to Jackson KY.