Flash Flood, Carter
- When
- July 3, 2:00 PM EST to 2:25 PM EST
- Where
- Carter County, Elizabethton
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.293, -82.127 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Tennessee, July 3, 2001
Thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall caused flash flooding in Elizabethton and surrounding areas. Several homes and other buildings were flooded.
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.
Thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall caused flash flooding in Elizabethton and surrounding areas. Several homes and other buildings were flooded. In addition, highway 321/159 was flooded in several places, with some damage due to washouts.
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 Jul 3, 8:35 AM EST, 5 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 8:35 AM EST, 5 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 935 AM EDT TUE JUL 3 2001 QUICK ZONE FORECAST UPDATE ALREADY SENT...ELIMINATING THE MENTION OF FOG THIS MORNING. AND...FOR THIS AFTERNOON...BUMPED HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE SOUTHERN VALLEY TO NEAR 90 AND SOUTHWEST WINDS IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY. .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. DH
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 3, 2001
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, July 3, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 3, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 3, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, July 3, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 3, 2001
- Hail in Wyoming, July 3, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 3, 2001
- Damaging Wind in California, July 3, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, July 3, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 3, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 3, 2001
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, July 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: 5261692.