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The literal floodgates are open all along the Tennessee River as it moves Helene's floodwater from the Smokies to the Ohio River. Why Knoxville shouldn't worry about rising Tennessee River levels ...
This map shows key rivers - French Broad, Nolichucky and Pigeon - and dams that were hit hard by the floods. Key East Tennessee rivers and dams hit hard by Hurricane Helene flooding
The Pigeon River in Newport broke a record at 20.9 feet above its flood level, surpassing the 1904 record by 5.5 feet. The Watauga River in Elizabethton reached 5 feet above its flood level in its ...
Water levels along the river rose over the 0.2 percent chance exceedence flood at the gage location. [2] The River reached its second-highest level ever in Vinings at Paces Ferry Road, and would have surpassed its 1916 record were it not for the impoundment built in the 1950s. Along the river in both Vinings and Roswell, a one percent chance ...
Lick Creek is a stream in Greene County, Tennessee. [1] It is the largest creek in the county. Beginning north of Greeneville, the creek runs through the northern and western sections of the county before spilling into the Nolichucky River near the Hamblen County line. The creek is often a source of flooding, and usually rises after rounds of ...
[1] [2] [3] At the height of the flooding, 50 roads were declared impassable in Greene County, Tennessee alone. [4] A similar storm system brought more flooding rain to the region from January 27 to 31. [5]
The National Weather Service in Morristown has extended a flood warning until 5:05 a.m. Sept. 29 for the French Broad River in Jefferson and Cocke counties and the Nolichucky River in Unicoi ...
Fort Loudoun Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Loudon County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which built the dam in the early 1940s as part of a unified plan to provide electricity and flood control in the Tennessee Valley and create a continuous 652-mile (1,049 km) navigable river channel from ...