Flash Flood, Greene
- When
- August 4, 2:00 AM EST to August 5, 2:00 AM EST
- Where
- Greene County, Countywide
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.175, -82.846 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Tennessee, August 4 to 5, 2001
Very heavy rain from Friday night into Saturday caused widespread flooding as creeks, streams and rivers overflowed. 35 inches of rain during this time.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.
Very heavy rain from Friday night into Saturday caused widespread flooding as creeks, streams and rivers overflowed. A rain gauge on Viking Mountain recorded 15.35 inches of rain during this time. Nine mobile homes and conventional homes were destroyed, and 74 mobile and conventional homes were damaged. Most of this occurred in the Middle Creek, Greystone, camp Creek, Horse Creek, Upper Paint Creek and Lower Paint Creek communities.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 3, 8:06 PM EST, 5 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 8:06 PM EST, 5 hours 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 906 PM EDT FRI AUG 3 2001 NO UPDATES PLANNED THIS EVENING. SURFACE FRONT ACROSS CENTRAL KY SHOULD CONTINUE SINKING SOUTH TONIGHT. AT THIS TIME...RADAR NOT SHOWING WIDESPREAD ACTIVITY AHEAD OF IT...BUT STILL PRETTY GOOD LIFT...AND INSTABILITY...SO THINK 80 POPS OVER MOST OF THE CWA STILL LOOKS GOOD. WILL ALSO LEAVE HEAVY RAIN WORDING WITH PW'S NEARING 2 INCHES. TEMPERATURUES APPEAR ON TRACK. .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. GH
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Minnesota, August 4 to 8, 2001
- Tropical Storm in Florida, August 4 to 6, 2001
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, August 4, 2001
- Tropical Storm in Florida, August 4 to 6, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 4, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 4, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 4, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Pennsylvania, August 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in New Jersey, August 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, August 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 4, 2001
- Tropical Storm in Alabama, August 4 to 5, 2001
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, August 2001
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: 5268521.