5 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Feb 14, 2:05 PM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 205 PM CST FRI FEB 14 2003 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE TONIGHT... SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT... LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS WARM FRONT DRAPED OUT OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS INTO WESTERN TENNESSEE NORTH OF THE MEMPHIS AND JACKSON AREAS. THE FRONT THEN DROPS DOWN NORTH OF TUSCALOOSA ALABAMA. FRONT HAS MOVED LITTLE DURING THE MORNING HOURS. DOPPLERS SHOWING PLENTY OF RAIN ACROSS THE AREA WITH MUCH MORE TO COME. MODELS AGREE IN BRINGING MORE ENERGY OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST AND INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE TONIGHT...SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. LATEST WATER VAPOR LOOP HAS SHORTWAVE OVER EASTERN ARIZONA DOWN INTO SOUTHERN BAJA. THIS WILL BE THE UPPER TROUGH THAT GRADUALLY WORKS ITS WAY TOWARD MIDDLE TENNESSEE OVER THE NEXT 36 HOURS. AS A RESULT THE RAIN WILL BE PROLONGED OVER THE AREA. WILL EXTEND FLOOD WATCH THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS: NASHVILLE 49 52 40 42 29 +++6 CROSSVILLE 49 52 42 43 29 +++7 .BNA...FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE TONIGHT...SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. BOYD 01
TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075>080-093>097-151130- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 535 AM CST FRI FEB 14 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE TOWARD THE MID STATE. THIS STORM SYSTEM WILL LIKELY GENERATE A COUPLE OF INCHES OF RAINFALL THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE...MAINLY TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED ON SATURDAY...AND AGAIN THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL. ANOTHER INCH OR MORE OF RAINFALL IS LIKELY. A COLD FRONT LOOKS TO MOVE EAST OF THE AREA LATE SATURDAY... SO THE RAINFALL WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE REPORTS ON RAINFALL AMOUNTS AND RIVER AND STREAM RESPONSES...FROM OUR TRAINED SPOTTERS....EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TEAMS...CO-OP OBSERVERS... AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES. GIRODO
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
5 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
NWS Co-op observer reported low water bridges covered by water. Some roads had 6-8 inches of water.
Law enforcement reported water on roads. Some roads were blocked off.
Law enforcement reported 13 county roads were closed due to high water.
Law enforcement reported several secondary roads were closed. A bridge was washed out on Old Beech Creek Rd. By around 730 PM CST, a house trailer was under water and 2 bridges were washed out.
Police reported many streets were flooded. Auto wrecks were occuring around Tullahoma and Manchester.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, February 2003
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: 5344149, 5342285, 5342286, 5344252, 5342287.