Jul 14, 2015
The second of three rounds of severe weather arrived shortly after midnight on July 14th as a complex of thunderstorms barreled southeastward into east Kentucky. This complex of storms produced sporadic wind damage and some flash flooding through the morning hours, hitting the Upper Cumberland region of south central and southeast Kentucky the hardest. ||Round three arrived as a line of strong to severe storms dropped southward across the region during the late afternoon and evening hours of t
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 586107). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Lee County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.