The Fourth of July holiday weekend ended on a deadly note in southwesternTennessee. A 5-year-old boy from Millington was killed after flood waters swepthim through a drainage pipe, then into a ditch Sunday afternoon.The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports the boy and other children wereplaying in a retention pond when drenching rain poured down. The water in thepond rose quickly, and the boy was not able to get out before getting sweptinto the drainage pipe. He was carried 200 yards through the pipe beforeemerging in a ditch. The boy was taken to a nearby children's medical centerwhere he was pronounced dead.
Showers and thunderstorms that pressed through the South on Sunday producedthe rain that caused the flash flooding. Millington is located 21 miles to thenortheast of Memphis, which received 1.26 inches of rain on Sunday. Athunderstorm dropped 0.95 of an inch of rain on Memphis between 2:30 and 5 p.m.
CDT. Radar analysis suggests that Millington received heavier and more frequentrainfall Sunday afternoon.
Story by AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Kristina Pydynowski
