City of Knoxville - Stormwater Engineering Rainfall Data

RAINFALL DATA

Civil Engineering Division
Stormwater Engineering Division
Traffic Engineering Division

City of Knoxville
Engineering Department
Stormwater Engineering Division

Note 1:

Rainfall data is collected and maintained by the Stormwater Engineering Division, Suite 480 City County Building (215-2148), as part of the NPDES monitoring program; see the NPDES webpage for additional information. The current monitoring station locations are shown in the Year 5 NPDES Annual Report (Appendix E) submitted to TDEC. See Notes 4 and 5 for new locations of two monitoring stations.

Note 2:

Monthly rainfall data files contain the daily rainfall amounts at the five City monitoring stations and at the official NOAA station at McGhee-Tyson Airport. Downloaded files from this website in Adobe Reader format (as signified by *.pdf filenames) can be viewed on screen or printed using the free software called Adobe Reader. Be sure to edit settings Adobe Reader.

Note 3:

Temperature and precipitation records for the official NOAA station at McGhee-Tyson Airport can be viewed at the National Weather Service webpage. The city monitoring stations show that there can be a large spatial variation for a particular rainfall event. Rainfall can occur in some parts of the city and not others due to prevailing winds, localized thunderstorms, alignment of ridges and valleys, etc.

Note 4:

The monitoring station for First Creek has been relocated in April 2005. It is now located at the KAT station (maintainence yard) on Jessamine Street near Fifth Avenue.

Note 5:

The monitoring station for Second Creek has been relocated in October 2005, and is now located on Williams Creek in east Knoxville near Dandridge Avenue.

Note 6:

Here are the top ten wettest years for the City of Knoxville. The years 2002 and 2003 have been very wet but do not qualify for the list. Keep in mind that rainfall-measuring techniques have changed over the years.

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1875	1882	1994	1884	1957	1886	1917	1873	1974	1929
73.87"	66.36"	63.27"	62.53"	61.49"	61.45"	59.72"	59.37"	59.33"	58.70"
Source for rainfall data: National Weather Service, Morristown TN

File name	Size (kb)	# pages	File description
Rain2000.pdf	42	12	Daily rainfall totals for year 2000
Rain2001.pdf	32	12	Daily rainfall totals for year 2001
Rain2002.pdf	57	12	Daily rainfall totals for year 2002
Rain2003.pdf	57	12	Daily rainfall totals for year 2003
Rain2004.pdf	67	12	Daily rainfall totals for year 2004
Summary2000-04.pdf	23	3	Monthly rainfall summary from 2000 to 2004
Rain2005.pdf	49	12	Daily rainfall totals for year 2005
Rain2006.pdf	104	12	Daily rainfall totals for year 2006
Rain2007.pdf	51	12	Daily rainfall totals for year 2007
Rain2008.pdf	99	12	Daily rainfall totals for year 2008
Rain2009.pdf	106	12	Daily rainfall totals for year 2009
Summary2000-09.pdf	27	2	Monthly rainfall summary from 2000 to 2009
0110-rain.pdf	10	1	January 2010 - daily rainfall totals