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Officials in Cocke County urged all of downtown Newport to evacuate immediately just after 3 p.m. Sept. 27 following reports that a North Carolina dam had "suffered a catastrophic failure," though ...
The seven-day rainfall average in the eastern Tennessee River Valley on Sept. 29 was 7.67 inches, around 10 times the normal amount at that time. ... The French Broad River in Newport, Tennessee ...
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September 27 – Hurricane Helene: The Walters Dam was reported to have suffered a catastrophic failure due to ongoing heavy rainfall, with Cocke County Mayor Rob Mathis ordering the immediate evacuation of parts of the nearby city of Newport.The reports were later confirmed to have been false. [5]
River level probes recorded by United States National Water Prediction Service at the Pigeon River by Newport indicated that at 3:00 p.m. EST, immediately following the dam failure, water levels reached 26.17 feet, over twice as high as the highest "Major" warning level for the location at 12 feet. [64]
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"There is no longer a risk of an imminent dam failure for Walters Dam on the Pigeon River," the National Weather Service office in Morristown confirmed on X at 4:45 p.m. "Major flooding continues ...
Little Bear Creek Dam; Lost Creek Dam; Melton Hill Dam; Nickajack Dam; Nolichucky Dam; Normandy Dam; Norris Dam; Nottely Dam; Ocoee Dams 1, 2, 3; Pickwick Landing Dam; Pin Oak Dam; Pine Dam; Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant; Redbud Dam; South Holston Dam; Sycamore Dam; Tellico Dam; Tims Ford Dam; Upper Bear Creek Dam; Watauga Dam; Watts ...