NASA Captures Devastating Tennessee Floods From Area After Winter Storm Drenches Area

A big winter storm system that moved throughout the East Coast over the weekend prompted severe floods in Tennessee and Kentucky, as seen in newly launched NASA satellite tv for pc photos.

The photographs present the Mississippi River’s serpentine path in western Tennessee and jap Arkansas and Missouri. Additionally they present the rivers and water our bodies east of the Mississippi—in Tennessee—inundated by as much as 6 inches (15 centimeters) of rain over a 48-hour interval. A state of emergency was declared in Tennessee after a levee failure close to the city of Rives, on the Obion River, which is the overflowed waterway within the top-right of the above picture.

It was a wild week for climate. Greater than half the states have been hit with winter climate advisories, whereas 11 states obtained flash flood watches. On the west coast, California was slammed with mudslide-triggering rains. The intense flood circumstances in Tennessee and Kentucky have been extreme sufficient to be seen from house.

NASA’s Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) on the company’s Landsat 9 captured false-color photos of the rivers in western Tennessee on February 17. NASA used particular shade bands within the photos to assist viewers distinguish between water, land, and vegetation.

In keeping with a National Weather Service summary, nearly all of the rain fell on Valentine’s Day, and no less than a dozen river websites had crests inside the prime 5 recorded crests. In Kentucky, 30 flood warnings and 47 flash flood warnings have been issued, in addition to 11 extreme thunderstorm warnings and two twister warnings. Greater than 300 roads have been closed and tens of 1000’s have been with out energy.

In keeping with NASA’s Earth Observatory, a U.S. Geological Survey water gauge in Obion, Tennessee, recorded a staggering water degree of 39.8 ft (12 meters) yesterday. Any water degree above 34 ft (10.4 meters) is taken into account a flood stage.

Hydrographs exhibiting affected rivers in Kentucky are additionally obtainable on the service’s website. Cloud cowl over the state prevented satellites from capturing related photos north of Tennessee, the place a number of the most damaging flash flooding occurred.

That’s not all Mom Nature wrote for the world. In keeping with the climate service, flurries and snow showers are expected in western Kentucky in the present day, with temperatures solely creeping into the decrease 20s days after the extreme floods. The snowy circumstances are additionally anticipated in southeastern Illinois and southwestern Indiana.