Flash Flood Warning Issued For Chattanooga Area

  • Wednesday, October 6, 2021

A flash flood warning was issued on late Wednesday afternoon for the Chattanooga area.

The National Weather Service said, Several rounds of showers and embedded thunderstorms are expected today through tonight. Rainfall amounts of 2 to 4 inches are expected in the southern Tennessee valley and southern plateau areas. Flash flooding will be possible."

Parts of Bledsoe and Sequatchie counties received as much as an estimated 2.5 inches in the past three hours, the Weather Service said at mid-afternoon.

Some locations that may experience flooding include Chattanooga, Dunlap, Pikeville, Soddy Daisy, Signal Mountain, Walden, Whitwell, Ridgeside, Fairmount, Red Bank, Powells Crossroads, Cartwright, North Chickamauga Creek Gorge, Lone Oak, Palio, Mowbray Mountain, Flat Top Mountain, Falling Water, Cagle and Old Cumberland.

Lookout Creek was expected to rise above flood stage after midnight and rise to 16.5 feet by Thursday afternoon. Flood stage is 12 feet.

 

 

 

 

 

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