Localized heavy rainfall and possible flash flooding may continue through Wednesday night in Tennessee Virginia and North Carolina

The family of three was killed when saturated ground caused a large tree to fall in the Chattanooga suburb of East Ridge just after midnight, Hamilton County OEM spokesperson Amy Maxwell said. No one else is believed to be missing at this time, 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.

An official says a mother, father and child were killed when a tree fell on their car as heavy rain and flooding hit Tennessee.

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 […]