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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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Franklin, KY · Jun 23, 2017

Tropical Storm Cindy made landfall along the Gulf Coast and quickly lifted northeast toward the lower Ohio Valley June 22-23. The remnants interacted with a cold front from the Upper Midwest to produced widespread heavy rainfall.

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Franklin, KY · Jun 23, 2017

Tropical Storm Cindy made landfall along the Gulf Coast and quickly lifted northeast toward the lower Ohio Valley June 22-23. The remnants interacted with a cold front from the Upper Midwest to produced widespread heavy rainfall.

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Nelson, KY · Jun 23, 2017

Tropical Storm Cindy made landfall along the Gulf Coast and quickly lifted northeast toward the lower Ohio Valley June 22-23. The remnants interacted with a cold front from the Upper Midwest to produced widespread heavy rainfall.

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Anderson, KY · Jun 23, 2017

Tropical Storm Cindy made landfall along the Gulf Coast and quickly lifted northeast toward the lower Ohio Valley June 22-23. The remnants interacted with a cold front from the Upper Midwest to produced widespread heavy rainfall.

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Anderson, KY · Jun 23, 2017

Tropical Storm Cindy made landfall along the Gulf Coast and quickly lifted northeast toward the lower Ohio Valley June 22-23. The remnants interacted with a cold front from the Upper Midwest to produced widespread heavy rainfall.

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Anderson, KY · Jun 23, 2017

Tropical Storm Cindy made landfall along the Gulf Coast and quickly lifted northeast toward the lower Ohio Valley June 22-23. The remnants interacted with a cold front from the Upper Midwest to produced widespread heavy rainfall.

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Fleming, KY · Jun 23, 2017

The combination of the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Cindy and a late June cold front brought widespread showers and thunderstorms to much of eastern Kentucky this evening.

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Bath, KY · Jun 23, 2017

The combination of the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Cindy and a late June cold front brought widespread showers and thunderstorms to much of eastern Kentucky this evening.

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Powell, KY · Jun 23, 2017

The combination of the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Cindy and a late June cold front brought widespread showers and thunderstorms to much of eastern Kentucky this evening.

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Montgomery, KY · Jun 23, 2017

The combination of the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Cindy and a late June cold front brought widespread showers and thunderstorms to much of eastern Kentucky this evening.

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Simpson, KY · Sep 1, 2017

Powerful and slow moving Hurricane Harvey made landfall along the Texas Gulf Coast as a Category 4 hurricane. After the storm stalled along the coast, producing extreme and unprecedented amounts of rainfall along the Texas and Louisiana coasts that resulted in catastrophic…

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Logan, KY · Sep 1, 2017

Powerful and slow moving Hurricane Harvey made landfall along the Texas Gulf Coast as a Category 4 hurricane. After the storm stalled along the coast, producing extreme and unprecedented amounts of rainfall along the Texas and Louisiana coasts that resulted in catastrophic…

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Simpson, KY · Sep 1, 2017

Powerful and slow moving Hurricane Harvey made landfall along the Texas Gulf Coast as a Category 4 hurricane. After the storm stalled along the coast, producing extreme and unprecedented amounts of rainfall along the Texas and Louisiana coasts that resulted in catastrophic…

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Metcalfe, KY · Sep 1, 2017

Powerful and slow moving Hurricane Harvey made landfall along the Texas Gulf Coast as a Category 4 hurricane. After the storm stalled along the coast, producing extreme and unprecedented amounts of rainfall along the Texas and Louisiana coasts that resulted in catastrophic…

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Metcalfe, KY · Sep 1, 2017

Powerful and slow moving Hurricane Harvey made landfall along the Texas Gulf Coast as a Category 4 hurricane. After the storm stalled along the coast, producing extreme and unprecedented amounts of rainfall along the Texas and Louisiana coasts that resulted in catastrophic…

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Flash Flood

Simpson, KY · Sep 1, 2017

Powerful and slow moving Hurricane Harvey made landfall along the Texas Gulf Coast as a Category 4 hurricane. After the storm stalled along the coast, producing extreme and unprecedented amounts of rainfall along the Texas and Louisiana coasts that resulted in catastrophic…

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Robertson, KY · Mar 1, 2017

An unseasonably warm and moist air mass was in place across the region during the morning hours of March 1st. Showers and thunderstorms developed across the Ohio Valley during the early morning hours as a strong low pressure system lifted northeast into the Great Lakes region.

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Lewis, KY · Mar 1, 2017

An unseasonably warm and moist air mass was in place across the region during the morning hours of March 1st. Showers and thunderstorms developed across the Ohio Valley during the early morning hours as a strong low pressure system lifted northeast into the Great Lakes region.

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Harlan, KY · May 28, 2017

Numerous strong to severe thunderstorms caused wind damage, flash flooding, and dropped large hail across eastern Kentucky during the afternoon and evening hours of Saturday, May 27, 2017. The largest hail reported occurred in Powell County and was the size of golf balls.

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Pulaski, KY · May 28, 2017

Numerous strong to severe thunderstorms caused wind damage, flash flooding, and dropped large hail across eastern Kentucky during the afternoon and evening hours of Saturday, May 27, 2017. The largest hail reported occurred in Powell County and was the size of golf balls.

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Whitley, KY · Apr 23, 2017

An area of low pressure moving across the Tennessee Valley brought an area of persistent light to moderate rain into southeastern Kentucky, beginning this morning and lasting into the overnight hours.

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Whitley, KY · Apr 23, 2017

An area of low pressure moving across the Tennessee Valley brought an area of persistent light to moderate rain into southeastern Kentucky, beginning this morning and lasting into the overnight hours.

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Bell, KY · Apr 23, 2017

An area of low pressure moving across the Tennessee Valley brought an area of persistent light to moderate rain into southeastern Kentucky, beginning this morning and lasting into the overnight hours.

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Letcher, KY · Apr 23, 2017

An area of low pressure moving across the Tennessee Valley brought an area of persistent light to moderate rain into southeastern Kentucky, beginning this morning and lasting into the overnight hours.

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