After a deadly and devastating weekend of flooding in portions of the South, another round of rain was expected in the region on Tuesday and Wednesday, forecasters warned.
Showers and thunderstorms were forecast along the Gulf Coast initially on Tuesday before expanding northward into Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky on Tuesday night, AccuWeather said.
Rainfall in those states was expected to become heavier and more widespread – right over the areas that don't need it.
"The rainfall may be heavy, which could result in new or worsening flooding problems," AccuWeather senior meteorologist Mike LeSeney said.
The predicted rain "is not something we want with the ground still saturated and rivers and streams running so full," the National Weather Service in Nashville said. "Many areas will be ill-equipped to bear the additional burden of more rainfall."
![A car rests in a ravine along Blackman Dr. near Edmondson Pike Sunday, March 28, 2021 in Nashville, Tenn. Flash flooding along Sevenmile Creek the night before caused major damage in the South Nashville neighborhood.]()
But unlike weather systems in recent weeks, which spawned dozens of tornadoes and widespread swaths of wind damage across the South, a large-scale outbreak of severe weather was not expected, according to AccuWeather.
Floodwaters barraged a city already weary from a string of disasters in 2020. Authorities found four people dead in South Nashville on Sunday morning, exceeding the death toll of the March 2020 tornado, which killed two Nashville residents.
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