3 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 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 Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 12, 2:30 PM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 230 PM CST WED DEC 12 2001 88-D SHOWS RAIN WEST OF A LINE FROM SPRINGFIELD...CHARLOTTE... AND WAYNESBORO. THE RAIN CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST AND WL OVERSPREAD THE CWA THIS EVENING. CAN NOT RULE OUT THE THREAT OF A THUNDERSTORM DUE TO ELEVATED CONVECTION RE ETA SOUNDING. MOST OF THE CWA CAN EXPECT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN OVNGT. WL ADD LCLY HVY RAINS TNGT IN THE ZONES. THE WRN PART OF MID TN WL RMN UNDER A FLOOD WATCH. WL HOLD OFF ON ANY FLOOD WATCHES FOR THE REST OF MID TN ATTM. MINS TEMPS WL OCCUR ERLY TNGT. TEMPS MAY RISE A FEW DEGS AFT MIDN WITH BREEZY SRLY WNDS AND WAA AS INDICATED ON 850MB. WL SPLIT PERIOD THU. BEST CHC OF RAIN FM THE TN RVR TO BNA AREA WL BE THU MRNG. WL GO SCTD FOR THU AFTN. WL KEEP LIKELY POPS FOR THE PLATEAU THU. ETA SEEMS TO BE MDL OF CHOICE. SFC LO THAT DVLPS IN NRN MS THU NITE (06Z)... IS TOO FAST ON THE AVN IN 48 HRS (12Z FRI). RAIN EMERGES AGAIN THU NITE AHD OF DVLPG LO OVR NRN MS. THE CDFNT WL SWEEP THRU THE RGN BY FRI 12Z BRINGING AN END TO THE PRECIP. HI PRES IN CONTROL FRI AND SAT. NGM MOS TEMPS FOR FRI LOOKS TOO COOL. HIGHS FRI PRBLY IN THE LWR TO MID 50S. RAIN OVSPRDS THE CWA SAT NITE AND CONTINUES THRU SUN AS WRM MST FLO FM THE GULF SETS UP AGAIN. BY MON...A TRAILING CDFNT FM IN...MID TN AND THE FL PNHDL WL SWEEP THRU THE AREA AND WE BECOME DRY SLOTTED. DRY WX AND TEMPS NR NORMAL FOR TUES & WED. LOW LVLS WNDS INCREASE TNGT RE ETA SOUNDINGS AND ALSO SHOW THREAT OF ELEVATED CONVECTION. AMS DESTABLIZES THU WITH LOWER L.I. SO THREAT OF THUNDER WL EXISTS. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS: BNA 056/067/045/054/038 +6+ CSV 052/064/045/052/037 +7+ .BNA...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 6 AM CST THU FOR AREAS WEST OF A LINE FROM CLARKSVILLE...HOHENWALD AND WAYNESBORO OR STEWART...MONTGOMERY...HOUSTON...BENTON...DICKSON... HUMPHREYS...HICKMAN...PERRY...LEWIS AND WAYNE COUNTIES. END/ORCHANIAN
TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075>080-093>097-131130- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1126 AM CST WED DEC 12 2001 ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS WESTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... RAIN IS SPREADING INTO WESTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE AHEAD OF A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT. THIS WILL BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THIS AREA. AREAS FROM WAYNESBORO TO LINDEN TO WAVERLY TO CLARKSVILLE CAN EXPECT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN BY THURSDAY NIGHT...WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF 3 INCHES. THIS MAY LEAD TO SOME FLOODING...MAINLY FOR AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF A WAYNESBORO TO CENTERVILLE TO CLARKSVILLE LINE. THIS IS THE SAME AREA THAT RECEIVED 4 TO 10 INCHES OF RAIN 2 WEEKS AGO. SINCE LOCALLY HEAVY IS EXPECTED ACROSS WESTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... ...ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTER GROUPS IS POSSIBLE THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. REMEMBER TO DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. JDG
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Spotter reported ponding of water on roads, especially in low lying areas.
Highway department reported that the intersection of Rorie Road and Indian Mound Road was closed due to high water.
Law enforcement reported 2 roads were closed due to high water. One of these roads was near Eva.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, December 2001
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: 5275529, 5275474, 5275473.