As a broad area of showers and thunderstorms moved across Middle Tennessee, mainly through the morning hours of Tuesday, November 30th, several counties experienced heavy rainfall. This resulted in flash flooding across several counties east of Interstate 65, with most of the locations affected being across the Cumberland Plateau Region.
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The episode as NWS OHX wrote it up.
As a broad area of showers and thunderstorms moved across Middle Tennessee, mainly through the morning hours of Tuesday, November 30th, several counties experienced heavy rainfall. This resulted in flash flooding across several counties east of Interstate 65, with most of the locations affected being across the Cumberland Plateau Region.
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 Nov 30, 5:45 AM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 545 AM CST TUE NOV 30 2010 .AVIATION... WIDESPREAD RAINFALL TO CONTINUE THROUGH 22Z TODAY...WITH SCATTERED ACTIVITY THEREAFTER. COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE TO OCCUR DURING THE LATE MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS. SOME -SHSN MAY MIX IN WITH THE SHRA THIS EVENING NEAR CSV. PARTIAL CLEARING WILL COMMENCE AFTER 06Z FOR BNA BUT LOW CLDS TO HANG ON AT CSV. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 415 AM CST TUE NOV 30 2010/ DISCUSSION... ANALYSIS SHOWING SFC LOW UP ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES WITH ASSOCIATED FRONTAL BOUNDARY DOWN ALONG THE MS RIVER. WARM FRONT EXTENDS FROM WEST TN DOWN INTO CENTRAL AL. THIS ALL TRAILED BY SHARP ML/UL TROUGH WHICH IS MOVING OUT OF THE PLAINS. WIDESPREAD PCPN CONTINUES TO MOVE ACROSS MAINLY EAST MIDDLE TN...WHERE LINE OF STORMS HAS FLARED UP AT TIMES ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLATEAU. FCST SOUNDINGS CONTINUE TO SHOW MORE STABLE LAYER BELOW H85 WHERE GOOD THERMAL INVERSION REMAINS BUT LL/ML JET STRUCTURE STILL VERY STRONG NEAR WEAK TSTORM BAND. LINE OF STORMS EXPECTED TO WEAKEN SOME AS IT CROSSES THE PLATEAU AS STABLE LAYER WILL KEEP SEVERE THREAT DOWN...BUT BURST OF GUSTY WIND OF 40-50 MPH FROM TIME TO TIME MAY BRING DOWN A FEW LIMBS...ETC. COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE DRIVING PCPN EAST...WITH HEAVIER CONVECTION ENDING LATER THIS MORNING. ISO-SCT SHOWERS HOWEVER EXPECTED TO LAST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON....ESPECIALLY EAST AS UL TROUGH APPROACHES BY DAYS END. UL TROUGH WILL SWING THROUGH LATE TONIGHT AND WEAK UVV ALONG WITH COOL DOWN/LAGGING MOISTURE FROM PASSING FRONT MAY CAUSE A LIGHT WINTRY MIX EAST THROUGH MIDNIGHT OR SO. NO ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED. SPOKES OF UL TROUGH WILL PASS BY WEDNESDAY THROUGH MUCH OF FRIDAY WHILE SFC/LL HIGH GENERALLY DOMINATES. WEAK FRONT LOOKS TO PASS EARLY FRIDAY HOWEVER BUT AIRMASS SHOULD REMAIN DRY. MODELS CONTINUE TO DIFFER OVER THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. LIGHT PCPN LIKELY TO OCCUR AT SOME POINT WHEN WEAK FRONT PASSES... MOST LIKELY LATER SATURDAY AND OR SUNDAY. && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 21
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 515 AM CST TUE NOV 30 2010 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-011115- STEWART-MONTGOMERY-ROBERTSON-SUMNER-MACON-CLAY-PICKETT-BENTON- HOUSTON-HUMPHREYS-DICKSON-CHEATHAM-DAVIDSON-WILSON-TROUSDALE- SMITH-JACKSON-PUTNAM-OVERTON-FENTRESS-PERRY-HICKMAN-LEWIS- WILLIAMSON-MAURY-MARSHALL-RUTHERFORD-CANNON-DE KALB-WHITE- CUMBERLAND-BEDFORD-COFFEE-WARREN-GRUNDY-VAN BUREN-WAYNE-LAWRENCE- GILES- 515 AM CST TUE NOV 30 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. 07
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</html>The Nashville radar (KOHX), 119 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:00 UTC.
4 flash flood, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Minor street flooding was occurring on West Springs Street. Portions of Scott’s Avenue were closed due to high water. A newspaper also reported that a small bridge at Jim Robinson Road off of U.S. Highway 70 East was washed out.
Because of heavy rains and strong winds, some trees across the county were uprooted and blown over power lines and roadways. Lake Hills Road located off of Ovoca Road in Tullahoma was partially blocked in one area due to trees and water across the roadway. Coffee County Communinications Center officials had to send officers to the Pocahontas area in north Coffee county near State Highway 130 and several other areas across the county due to high waters. Tulllahoma police also reported water across Decherd Street, with multiple reports of debri washing across this road and other roads across the county also.
A one lane concrete bridge on Busccuffle Road near Wartrace was totally covered with water, with a massive pile of driftwood creating a logjam on the upstream side. A black Honda, which was driven by a passenger, was trying to ease into the water covered area near this bridge so that the vehicle's driver could rescue a Labrador dog. The car was swept away and ended up stuck in a flooded nearby ditch.
Flooding was reported on Old Allardt Road next to the bridge.
A rock slide was reported along Highway 85 at Wilder. Several back roads were also closed across Fentress County.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, November 2010
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: 268071, 268369, 282729, 268087, 268097.