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Flooding along Beale Street in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. Dyersburg, a city in northwestern Tennessee, experienced the worst flooding with over 600 homes and businesses inundated as the Forked Deer River, a tributary of the Mississippi, flowed backwards into southern areas of the city. [21]
The 2010 Tennessee floods were floods in Middle Tennessee, West Tennessee, south-central and western Kentucky and northern Mississippi areas of the United States of America as the result of torrential rains on May 1 and 2, 2010. Floods from these rains affected the area for several days afterwards, resulting in a number of deaths and widespread ...
In the 1940s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built an earthen levee system with pumping stations along the northern side of Nonconnah Creek from its mouth to Prospect Street in South Memphis. During the 2011 Mississippi River floods, these levees kept water off of the northern side. However, backwater flooding occurred on the south side ...
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
Heavy rains hit Memphis early Thursday morning, resulting in flash floods -- but there was a silver lining for at least one couple caught in the downpour. Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant declared a ...
2011 Mississippi River floods; G. Great Appalachian Storm of 1950; ... 1865 Memphis earthquake; N. 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes; North American blizzard of 2008; S.
The NWS office in Memphis has issued a flash flood warning for parts of Shelby and DeSoto Counties. Here's when it ends Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800 ...
The Mississippi River floods in April and May 2011 were among the largest and most damaging along the U.S. waterway in the past century, rivalling major floods in 1927 and 1993. In April 2011, two major storm systems dumped record rainfall on the Mississippi River watershed .