Aug 21, 2021
For several hours, thunderstorms with heavy rain trained southeast along an axis across western Kentucky into west central Tennessee. The heaviest rainfall and catastrophic flash flooding occurred in west central Tennessee, including Waverly. In western Kentucky, significant flash flooding occurred near the Tennessee border southeast of Murray. The axis of thunderstorms was aligned with a low level axis of convergence in the surface to 850 mb layer. Storms formed along the convergence axis and t
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 971615). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in McCracken County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.