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Kentucky Flood Stories

3,183 first-hand accounts of flood events in Kentucky, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

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Warren, KY · Nov 5, 2018

A potent low pressure system moved through the Midwest Monday, November 5, 2018. Showers and thunderstorms formed out ahead of the cold front trailing from the center of the system.

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Logan, KY · Nov 5, 2018

A potent low pressure system moved through the Midwest Monday, November 5, 2018. Showers and thunderstorms formed out ahead of the cold front trailing from the center of the system.

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Green, KY · Nov 5, 2018

A potent low pressure system moved through the Midwest Monday, November 5, 2018. Showers and thunderstorms formed out ahead of the cold front trailing from the center of the system.

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Franklin, KY · Nov 5, 2018

A potent low pressure system moved through the Midwest Monday, November 5, 2018. Showers and thunderstorms formed out ahead of the cold front trailing from the center of the system.

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Spencer, KY · Nov 6, 2018

A potent low pressure system moved through the Midwest Monday, November 5, 2018. Showers and thunderstorms formed out ahead of the cold front trailing from the center of the system.

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Fayette, KY · Nov 6, 2018

A potent low pressure system moved through the Midwest Monday, November 5, 2018. Showers and thunderstorms formed out ahead of the cold front trailing from the center of the system.

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Franklin, KY · Nov 6, 2018

A potent low pressure system moved through the Midwest Monday, November 5, 2018. Showers and thunderstorms formed out ahead of the cold front trailing from the center of the system.

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Franklin, KY · Nov 6, 2018

A potent low pressure system moved through the Midwest Monday, November 5, 2018. Showers and thunderstorms formed out ahead of the cold front trailing from the center of the system.

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Rowan, KY · May 16, 2018

A slow moving line of thunderstorms developed from mid to late this afternoon across central Kentucky. As this line progressed east into the Bluegrass region of eastern Kentucky, these storms increased in coverage as rainfall rates increased.

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Montgomery, KY · May 16, 2018

A slow moving line of thunderstorms developed from mid to late this afternoon across central Kentucky. As this line progressed east into the Bluegrass region of eastern Kentucky, these storms increased in coverage as rainfall rates increased.

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Elliott, KY · May 16, 2018

A slow moving line of thunderstorms developed from mid to late this afternoon across central Kentucky. As this line progressed east into the Bluegrass region of eastern Kentucky, these storms increased in coverage as rainfall rates increased.

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Bath, KY · May 16, 2018

A slow moving line of thunderstorms developed from mid to late this afternoon across central Kentucky. As this line progressed east into the Bluegrass region of eastern Kentucky, these storms increased in coverage as rainfall rates increased.

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McLean, KY · Aug 30, 2021

The remnants of Tropical Storm Ida moved north-northeast across the lower Mississippi Valley, spreading moisture northward. Some frontal forcing in the mid levels of the atmosphere across southern Indiana and southern Illinois initiated scattered showers and thunderstorms, some…

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Jefferson, KY · Aug 26, 2021

Surface high pressure was solidly over central Kentucky, but given the moist atmosphere and temperatures in the 90s, afternoon and evening thunderstorms resulted in a variety of severe thunderstorm damage across central Kentucky.

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Boyd, KY · Jan 8, 2005

The Ohio River crested above flood stage, as a result of heavy rain across the upper Ohio Valley. The crest at Ashland was 55.45 feet during the evening of the 9th. Flood stage is 52 feet. That's the highest stage since the flood of March 1997 reached 60.8 feet.

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Union, KY · Jan 25, 2019

More heavy rain impacted the region shortly after the middle part of the month, once again causing the Ohio and Green Rivers to rise above flood stage by the end of January.

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McCracken, KY · Jan 26, 2019

More heavy rain impacted the region shortly after the middle part of the month, once again causing the Ohio and Green Rivers to rise above flood stage by the end of January.

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Muhlenberg, KY · Jan 24, 2019

More heavy rain impacted the region shortly after the middle part of the month, once again causing the Ohio and Green Rivers to rise above flood stage by the end of January.

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Larue, KY · Aug 14, 2021

On the 14th, a cold front worked its way south through central Kentucky to Tennessee, but by the 16th, the slow moving front was on its way back north as a warm front.

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Larue, KY · Aug 14, 2021

On the 14th, a cold front worked its way south through central Kentucky to Tennessee, but by the 16th, the slow moving front was on its way back north as a warm front.

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Larue, KY · Aug 14, 2021

On the 14th, a cold front worked its way south through central Kentucky to Tennessee, but by the 16th, the slow moving front was on its way back north as a warm front.

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Nicholas, KY · Aug 16, 2021

On the 14th, a cold front worked its way south through central Kentucky to Tennessee, but by the 16th, the slow moving front was on its way back north as a warm front.

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Nicholas, KY · Aug 16, 2021

On the 14th, a cold front worked its way south through central Kentucky to Tennessee, but by the 16th, the slow moving front was on its way back north as a warm front.

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Nicholas, KY · Aug 16, 2021

On the 14th, a cold front worked its way south through central Kentucky to Tennessee, but by the 16th, the slow moving front was on its way back north as a warm front.

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