2 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 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 13, 7:40 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 740 PM CST THU DEC 13 2001 CURRENT SURFACE ANALYSIS PLACING FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS EXTREME NW MIDDLE...EXTENDING SW INTO TIGHT WAVE CENTERED IN THE VICINITY OF HEZ. LOCAL RADARS SHOWING LARGE MASS OF RAIN HAS NOW EXPANDED ACROSS MOST OF THE CWA. LATEST AVAILABLE MODEL DATA REMAINS CONSISTENT...BRINGING STRONG SURFACE WAVE NEWARD...PASSING JUST TO THE NW OF MIDDLE TN...AND EVENTUALLY TO NEAR THE LMK VICINITY BY 12Z. WIDESPREAD MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA AS LOW-LEVEL/ MOISTURE CONVERGENCE INCREASES JUST AHEAD OF ADVANCING WAVE. VERTICAL MOTION ACROSS THE CWA EXPECTED TO PEAK 03-09Z AND WITH DEEP MOISTURE WELL ENTRENCHED...EXTENDED PERIOD OF RAIN EXPECTED TO CONTINUE. DRY-AIR INTRUSION ALSO EXPECTED TO WORK NWARD BUT OVERALL MORE FAVORABLE INSTABILITY LOOKING TO STAY WELL S OF THE MID-STATE. THUS...HEAVY RAINFALL/FLOODING SEEMS TO REMAIN THE ORDER...WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS A LOW PROBABILITY. WILL LEAVE FLOOD WATCH UP OVERNIGHT AS IS. MAY ADJUST ZONE GROUPS SLIGHTLY AND TAKE A LOOK AT TEMPS. BELIEVE ONLY THE EXTREME WEST WILL SEE ANY COOLING AT ALL OVERNIGHT. 07 .BNA...FLOOD WATCH ALL ZONES THROUGH 6 AM.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flooding was occurring over low water crossings on some minor roads around the county.
Sheriff's office reported low lying roads were flooded around the county.
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: 5275530, 5275531.