3,183 first-hand accounts of flood events in Kentucky, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana at 11:55am CDT on August 29. From here it continued to slowly move inland and northward. By 15Z on August 30, it had reached SW Mississippi.
Read the full account →An upper level disturbance passing through the Great Lakes region and the Ohio Valley led to an abundance of moisture streaming into Kentucky on October 8th.
Read the full account →A prolonged period of light to moderate rain led to flooding across portions of eastern Kentucky, particularly southeastern Kentucky, beginning during the overnight hours of Friday, February 9 into Saturday, February 10, 2018.
Read the full account →Repeated rounds of moderate to heavy rainfall across the entire Ohio River basin totaled between 8 to 9 inches across central Kentucky from February 15 to February 28. These totals were generally 7+ inches, or 200 to 400% of normal values for mid to late February.
Read the full account →On the afternoon of September 22nd, a flash flood watch was issued to cover southeast Indiana and areas in and around the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky.||By September 23rd, a cold front stretched west to east from western Tennessee to far |east-central Kentucky on through eastern…
Read the full account →Several rounds of heavy rain moved across eastern Kentucky from late Friday, February 26th through early Monday, March 1st. The combination of all the heavy rainfall led to significant flooding across a good portion of central and east Kentucky.
Read the full account →On September 13th, a large cold front covering the eastern United Stated slide southeast through the Lower Ohio Valley. This caused widespread rainfall. Areas in Casey County received over 4 inches of rainfall, causing many parts of Liberty and surrounding areas to flood.
Read the full account →Two rounds of severe weather moved through central Kentucky on August 4th. The first produced torrential rainfall in the Louisville Metro area with up to seven inches of rain falling in around two hours time.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms developed very late this afternoon and early evening as a hot and humid airmass remained in place across eastern Kentucky.
Read the full account →Rain and thunderstorms developed on the afternoon of February 16th ahead of a low pressure system and surface cold front. Earlier that morning, a round of thunderstorms swept through eastern Kentucky, priming the area for potential flooding concerns as heavier rain was…
Read the full account →One of the worst flash floods in Christian County history damaged or destroyed 596 homes. A total of 15 dams received some degree of damage. At the height of the flood, travel was virtually halted countywide, including Interstate 24.
Read the full account →Multiple clusters of thunderstorms intensified during the heat of the day along and south of a warm front that arced over far southern Illinois and across southern Kentucky. The storms occurred ahead of an upper-level disturbance over eastern Missouri.
Read the full account →Periods of rain worked back into eastern Kentucky early on February 20 as a warm frontal boundary lifted north across the Commonwealth. A cold front brought additional rainfall through the afternoon and evening, before drier conditions worked into eastern Kentucky during the…
Read the full account →Scattered intense thunderstorms fired up during the heat of the day across western Kentucky. This activity developed ahead of a weak cold front and in the vicinity of a weak surface low centered over the mid Mississippi Valley.
Read the full account →Periods of rain worked back into eastern Kentucky early on February 20 as a warm frontal boundary lifted north across the Commonwealth. A cold front brought additional rainfall through the afternoon and evening, before drier conditions worked into eastern Kentucky during the…
Read the full account →The second warmest December on record for Eastern Kentucky finished with a warm and moist air mass in place on New Year's Eve. A developing warm front slowly lifted northward out of the Tennessee Valley during the early morning hours on New Year's Day 2022 and stalled near the…
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary interacting with highly anomalous moisture from the Gulf of Mexico interacted with multiple weather systems that brought widespread heavy rainfall and severe thunderstorms to central Kentucky February 24 through the early morning hours February 25.
Read the full account →Persistent thunderstorms produced flash flooding in the Owensboro area. A mid-level circulation over southeast Missouri helped to focus shower and thunderstorm activity into southern Illinois and northwest Kentucky. This circulation was associated with a trough from 850-700 mb.
Read the full account →During a time without any major weather systems moving through the region, a moist atmosphere with differential heating and remaining outflows from earlier thunderstorms was enough for thunderstorms and heavy rain to develop across central Kentucky.
Read the full account →Periods of rain worked back into eastern Kentucky early on February 20 as a warm frontal boundary lifted north across the Commonwealth. A cold front brought additional rainfall through the afternoon and evening, before drier conditions worked into eastern Kentucky during the…
Read the full account →Several rounds of widespread heavy rainfall tracked northeast across western Kentucky. These rounds of heavy rain produced localized flooding of roads, along with longer-term flooding along creeks and tributaries of the Ohio River.
Read the full account →Several rounds of widespread heavy rainfall tracked northeast across western Kentucky. These rounds of heavy rain produced localized flooding of roads, along with longer-term flooding along creeks and tributaries of the Ohio River.
Read the full account →Beginning on February 3rd, numerous rounds of rainfall began to impact eastern Kentucky. This continued through February 7th, highlighted by heavy rainfall from the evening of February 5th through the first half of February 6th.
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