Flash Flood, Hamilton
- When
- June 4, 6:00 PM EST to 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Hamilton County, Chattanooga
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.181, -85.165 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Tennessee, June 4, 2002
Numerous road closures including Boy Scout Road were reported due to flash flooding in Chattanooga.
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.
Numerous road closures including Boy Scout Road were reported due to flash flooding in Chattanooga.
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 Jun 4, 2:15 PM EST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 2:15 PM EST, 3 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 315 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002 CHANGES IN THE OFFING OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS IN TERMS OF TEMPS AND PRECIP POTENTIAL. MODEL TIME HEIGHTS CONTINUE TO ADVERTISE A GRADUAL INFLUX OF MOISTURE WITH TIME ESPECIALLY ABOVE THE BOUNDARY LAYER. THE MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE AS THE SURFACE FRONT APPROACHES SOMETIME EARLY THURSDAY. THERE WILL BE NO REALLY SIGNIFICANT FOCUSING MECHANISM UNTIL THE FROPA...BUT THE PERSISTENT INSTABILITY COUPLED WITH THE INCREASED MOISTURE SUGGESTS SCATTERED CONVECTION WILL BE POSSIBLE PARTICULARLY DURING PEAK HEATING HOURS. HAVE CONTINUED THE CHANCE POPS THROUGH THE SECOND AND THIRD PERIODS. MAIN PRECIP EVENT WILL COINCIDE WITH THE FRONTAL PASSAGE HOWEVER. THIS FEATURE IS DEPICTED AS PROVIDING THE FIRST WIDESPREAD PRECIP EVENT IN QUITE A WHILE. QPFS OF NEARLY AN INCH ARE BEING GENERALLY PROJECTING BY MESOETA IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SLOW-MOVING FRONT. POST-FRONTAL HEIGHT FALLS ARE NOT PARTICULARLY DRAMATIC...BUT TEMPS SHOULD FALL BACK TO NEAR CLIMATOLOGY BY THE END OF THE NEAR-TERM PERIOD. NGM/ETA/AVN MOS TEMPS ARE FAIRLY CLOSE AND APPEAR REASONABLE. WILL GENERALLY FOLLOW THE MOS NUMBERS. PRELIMINARY CCF FOLLOWS: CHA 73 92 71 84 / 30 50 50 60 TYS 72 89 70 82 / 20 50 50 60 TRI 68 87 67 81 / 20 50 60 60 OQT 72 88 70 82 / 20 50 50 60 .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. LCM
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 4, 1:23 PM EST, 4 hours 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN, TN
223 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0131 PM OCOEE TN .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/02 POLK REPORTED BY TVA.
0215 PM OCOEE TN .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/02 POLK REPORTED BY TVA.
GMLocal storm report, Jun 4, 4:46 PM EST, 1 hour 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN, TN
546 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0400 PM MURPHY NC WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02 CHEROKEE TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
DISPATCH.
0500 PM 8 NW MURPHY NC FLASH FLOODS
06/04/02 CHEROKEE WATER OVER ROADS NEAR
HIWASSEE DAM. REPORTED BY
DISPATCH.
0500 PM MURPHY NC FLASH FLOODS
06/04/02 CHEROKEE MUD AND ROCK SLIDE ON HWY
64E NEAR THE HOSPITAL.
REPORTED BY DISPATCH.
DAELocal storm report, Jun 4, 5:58 PM EST, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN, TN
658 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0640 PM 5 NE HIXSON TN WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02 HAMILTON TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
SPOTTER.
0615 PM DECATUR TN WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02 MEIGS TREES DOWN ON POWER LINES.
REPORTED BY DISPATCH.
0625 PM DAYTON TN WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02 RHEA TREES DOWN ON POWER LINES.
REPORTED BY DISPATCH.
DAEThe 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
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Texas, June 4, 2002
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 4 to 5, 2002
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, June 4, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood in Iowa, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, June 4, 2002
- Flood in Iowa, June 4, 2002
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, June 2002
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: 5300389.