Flooding Rains

September 17, 2012 will be very memorable day for all the wrong reasons in Cookeville, TN. About 5 pm, rain began falling heavily after a mainly wet day across the area. In a two-hour period, sections of the city recorded more than 3.75" causing major flooding across roads throughout the city.

At 8:30 pm, we've got 6.25" in the rain gauge since midnight.

The official list of the 10 rainiest days ever in Cookeville:

COOKEVILLE (402009)
Extremes
Highest Daily Precipitation (inches)
Days: 1/1 - 12/31
Length of period: 1 day
Years: 1896-2012

Rank  Value  Ending Date
  1    6.06  9/29/1964
  2    5.28  3/13/1975
  3    5.27  5/7/1984
  4    5.21  6/29/1928
  5    4.80  11/27/1973
  6    4.66  9/29/1944
  7    4.65  2/6/2004
  8    4.43  12/13/1998
  9    4.36  9/17/2004
 10    4.30  7/8/1979

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