Chattanooga: Three people have been killed and one person remains missing after severe weather and flooding slammed Chattanooga area, Hamilton County, in the US southeastern State of Tennessee, on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Saturated ground from storms caused a large tree to fall on a car in the 1100 block of South Moore Road in East Ridge early Wednesday morning, killing two adults and a child.
According to Kuwait News Agency, Chattanooga officials said search efforts are continuing for a man last seen in floodwaters on East Brainerd Road on Tuesday night. The weather service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a Level 2 out of 4 flash flood threat for Western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee on Wednesday. This comes after over six inches of rain fell in Chattanooga on Tuesday, marking the city's second-wettest day on record. The flooding led to the deaths of three people according to officials.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has warned that Tropical Storm Erin could move, causing impacts to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the northern Leeward Islands over the weekend, though the agency said the magnitude of any potential impacts was unclear. Meteorologists have indicated that Erin has the potential to become the first major hurricane of the 2025 season.
Eris is the fifth named system of the Atlantic season so far, following Andrea, Barry, Chantal, and Dexter. Chantal brought heavy rain and flooding to North Carolina in early July. None of the previous named storms developed into hurricanes.
Forecasters continue to monitor Tropical Storm Erin as it spins across the Atlantic, and the system is forecast to become a hurricane in a few days and a major hurricane over the weekend. FOX Weather Meteorologists Britta Merwin and Craig Herrera provided the latest forecast on Aug. 12, 2025.