Nashville Area Weather: Tropical Storm Cindy To Bring Truckloads Of Rain

NASHVILLE, TN — The National Hurricane Center officially declared a system churning in the Gulf of Mexico as the 2017 hurricane season's third named storm and Tropical Storm Cindy, as it's now known, is likely to dump plenty of rain in Middle Tennessee as it pushes inland.

Cindy is forecast to make landfall in Texas and Louisiana late Wednesday or early Thursday and then chug north into the inland south after dropping a foot or more of rain on the coast. Cindy is a relatively large storm so while the center won't reach Nashville until the weekend, rain from the outer edge will begin falling late Thursday night. (For more updates on the weather and free news alerts for your neighborhood, sign up for your local Middle Tennessee Patch morning newsletter.)

"It does look like two to four inches over three to four days can be expected with some locally higher amounts possible especially across Southern Middle Tennessee. We could have some gusty winds as well, but really think the heavy rainfall with some possible flood impacts to be the main hazards with Cindy for Middle Tennessee," Krissy Hurley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Old Hickory, told Patch Tuesday.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Cindy was in a stationary position in the central Gulf of Mexico, with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Additional reporting by Patch editor Sherri Lonon in Tampa

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