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Flash Flood — Meade, KY

Jan 3, 2023

During the overnight hours and into the morning on January 3rd, a strong system moved across central Kentucky, bringing isolated damaging wind gusts and widespread heavy rainfall. The system was associated with a negatively-tilted upper-level trough which moved from the Four Corners region on January 2nd to the upper Midwest by January 4th. A surface cyclone transited in a similar fashion to the upper trough, with a surface warm front developing across central Indiana during the evening hours of

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1071267). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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