A family of three died this week after a large tree fell on their car amid heavy rain and flash flooding in Chattanooga and elsewhere in Tennessee, officials said

Tennessee officials swiftly responded to a rare flash flood in Hamilton County, impacting roads including I-24.

Rescue crews pulled people out of submerged cars and homes overnight as floods swept the southeastern part of the state.

PREVIOUS: Significant thunderstorms moved through Middle Tennessee overnight, causing the National Weather Service to send out multiple flooding alerts. The first counties on alert for flooding overnight were eastern Robertson and Sumner. Those expired around 1:30 a.m.

The floodwaters shut down Interstate 24 until around 10 p.m. ET, Rae Anne Bradley, the regional communications officer for the Tennessee Department of Transportation in Chattanooga and the Cumberland Plateau, stated in a post on X. When water had receded, the interstate lanes traveling east were reopened.

A mother, father and child were killed in Tennessee when a tree fell on their car overnight as heavy rain and flash flooding lashed the state.

Not a lot of mainstream news has been made about the latest disastrous flooding that hit parts of Tennessee, but a video from the scene is going […]

Heavy rain on August 12 continuing into August 13 places Knox County and other East Tennessee counties at high risk of flash flooding, officials said.