Scattered showers and thunderstorms affected Middle Tennessee from October 1 into October 2. Some of these showers and storms produced heavy rainfall with localized flooding reported in a few areas.
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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 episode as NWS OHX wrote it up.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms affected Middle Tennessee from October 1 into October 2. Some of these showers and storms produced heavy rainfall with localized flooding reported in a few areas.
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 42 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:28 UTC.
2 flash flood, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
One house on Osburn Road in Arrington was flooded with the family needing rescued.
A trained spotter reported a creek was overflowing which covered a portion of Burke Hollow Road in Nolensville.
Trousdale County Emergency Management reported three roads east of Hartsville that typically do not flood were impassable and closed due to high water.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2018Every state in 2018This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, October 2018
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 790335, 790337, 790336.