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Nashville area sees 161 tornado, thunderstorm and flash flood warnings in two weeks

Caroline Eggers

April 12, 2025

In the first two weeks of April, Middle Tennesseans received over 160 warnings for flash floods, severe thunderstorms and tornadoes.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: flood, severe weather, sinkhole, tornado

Sinkholes are dangerous — and expensive. Tennessee lawmakers want home sellers to disclose them.

Caroline Eggers

March 2, 2023

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Sinkholes are popping up, or rather down, more often in some parts of the Southeast. 

Filed Under: Environment, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, climate change, General Assembly, landslides, legislature, sinkhole, Tennessee Legislature, tnleg, tnpol

A Sinkhole Is Disrupting Nashville’s Only Commuter Train

Tony Gonzalez

October 6, 2021

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There’s no set timeline yet for repairing a sinkhole that developed directly beneath the train tracks used by Nashville’s only commuter train.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Music City Star, sinkhole

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