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Flash Flood — Shelby, KY

Jul 18, 2023

Another active period of weather set up across central Kentucky and southern Indiana July 17th and 18th, 2023 as multiple waves of showers and thunderstorms moved across the region, bringing damaging straight-line winds, severe hail, and one tornado to the region. The synoptic pattern was fairly consistent (albeit active) during this period, with large-scale mid- and upper-level troughing extending from Hudson Bay down into the Ohio Valley. In the low-levels, a quasi-stationary front extended fr

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1128827). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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