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Flood — Fleming, KY

Mar 4, 2015

Another major late winter storm affected the state of Kentucky from late in the day on Tuesday March 3rd through the morning of Thursday March 5th, 2015. ||The storm began as rain overspread east Kentucky from late Tuesday March 3rd into the day of Wednesday March 4th, falling heavily at times. The rain, coupled with a melting high elevation snow pack containing considerable water content, caused extensive runoff and produced widespread flooding of small creeks and streams and poor draining ar

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 566249). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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