TIMING: Now through Midnight
THREAT: Flooding, Damaging Wind, Hail, Isolated Tornadoes
The weekend is here, but the weather is not playing nice for people wanting to do things outdoors.
Heavy rain has already moved into the area with numerous flash flood warnings being issued across portions of the Mid-State and Southern Kentucky.
A Flood Watch remains in effect until Sunday morning due to heavy rain that will continue to bring flooding concerns to the area.
Aside from flooding, Saturday afternoon everyone needs to remain weather aware as the threat for strong to severe storms is possible for all of the NewsChannel 5 coverage area.
The greatest risk for strong to severe storms will occur between 2pm-10pm.
As far as threats with any storms flooding will remain the biggest threat followed by damaging wind, hail, and even isolated tornadoes.
Make sure you have multiple ways to receive warnings Saturday. Once the cold front sweeps through temperatures will quickly plummet Sunday.
It is likely that we will see some snow on the tail end of the system Sunday morning, but no accumulation is expected.
Counties under the flood watch:
- Bedford
- Cannon
- Cheatham
- Clay
- Coffee
- Cumberland
- Davidson
- DeKalb
- Dickson
- Fentress
- Giles
- Grundy
- Hickman
- Houston
- Humphrey
- Jackson
- Lawrence
- Lewis
- Macon
- Marshall
- Maury
- Montgomery
- Overton
- Perry
- Pickett
- Putnam
- Robertson
- Rutherford
- Smith
- Stewart
- Sumner
- Trousdale
- Van Buren
- Warren
- Wayne
- White
- Williamson
- Wilson
Additionally, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is watching this weekend's forecast and how this will effect the dam systems, lakes and rivers.Here are the areas the Army Corps is watching.
- Due to the high volume of expected rainfall, navigation at Cheatham Lock may be impacted by this weekend, with potential short-term restrictions or closures lasting approximately two to three days.
- The USACE storage reservoirs of J. Percy Priest, Center Hill, Dale Hollow, and Wolf Creek currently have empty flood storage zones and may see rapid rises in lake levels as they hold back flood waters. These waters will be slowly released after the rain ends to prepare them for future events.
- Cordell Hull, Old Hickory, and Cheatham Dams do not have built-in flood storage and must release the water that runs into them, this may be done using their spillway gates or hydropower turbines, depending on the dam and how much water they must release.
If you have weather questions or storm damage photos and video, email my5@newschannel5.com.
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