Flood in Tennessee, March 2 to 7, 1997

Name: Flood in Tennessee, March 2 to 7, 1997
Start: 1997-03-02T00:00
End: 1997-03-07T23:00
Location: Tennessee

March 2 to 7, 1997 · NWS OHX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $500,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

The radar

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Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Montgomery

When: March 2, 12:00 AM CST to March 7, 11:00 PM CST
Where: Montgomery forecast zone
Property damage: $500,000
Coordinates: 36.497, -87.383 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

The Red River was out of its banks. Local law enforcement reported 4 to 6 feet of water in the Belmont Subdivision. 60 homes were affected by the flooding in Montgomery county. A cooperative weather observer in Clarksville, TN, in Montgomery county, reported about 5.25 inches of rain from the morning of Saturday, March 1 to Monday morning, March 3.

What these are

Flood: Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Tennessee in 1997 Every state in 1997 This day in weather history Warnings in Tennessee, March 1997

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5595457.