3,183 first-hand accounts of flood events in Kentucky, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Torrential training rainfall redeveloped overnight heading into the 17th, this time over portions of Western Kentucky in the Pennyrile region.
Read the full account →Torrential training rainfall redeveloped overnight heading into the 17th, this time over portions of Western Kentucky in the Pennyrile region.
Read the full account →Torrential training rainfall redeveloped overnight heading into the 17th, this time over portions of Western Kentucky in the Pennyrile region.
Read the full account →Torrential training rainfall redeveloped overnight heading into the 17th, this time over portions of Western Kentucky in the Pennyrile region.
Read the full account →Torrential training rainfall redeveloped overnight heading into the 17th, this time over portions of Western Kentucky in the Pennyrile region.
Read the full account →Torrential training rainfall redeveloped overnight heading into the 17th, this time over portions of Western Kentucky in the Pennyrile region.
Read the full account →Rain and a few storms traversed the area on the night of February 27th, then activity began to increase the morning of the 28th as a cold front slowly approached from the west.
Read the full account →A surface boundary moved through Western Kentucky and Tennessee the afternoon of the 22nd. The primary line of storms was in Tennessee while smaller scale SW to NE oriented heavy rain bands flared up three times in Western Kentucky.
Read the full account →On the afternoon of May 22nd, a cold front approached from the west and then stalled over Ohio during the day. Showers and thunderstorms spread into northeast Kentucky ahead of the front around midday and caused a path of tree damage through Greenup County.
Read the full account →A strong low pressure system and accompanying frontal boundary set forth multiple rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms from April 2nd to the 3rd.
Read the full account →A strong low pressure system and accompanying frontal boundary set forth multiple rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms from April 2nd to the 3rd.
Read the full account →A strong low pressure system and accompanying frontal boundary set forth multiple rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms from April 2nd to the 3rd.
Read the full account →A strong low pressure system and accompanying frontal boundary set forth multiple rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms from April 2nd to the 3rd.
Read the full account →A strong low pressure system and accompanying frontal boundary set forth multiple rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms from April 2nd to the 3rd.
Read the full account →The second major severe weather outbreak for the month occurred on the 26th for the Quad State region. On the synoptic scale, a shortwave trough centered in the middle of the country with a 60 kt mid-level jet moved across northern Arkansas.
Read the full account →Torrential rainfall, and training thunderstorms in otherwise widely scattered convection, resulted in an estimated daytime rainfall total of 4 to 7 inches in far southwestern Ballard County and northwestern Carlisle County in Kentucky, along with far eastern Mississippi County…
Read the full account →A strengthening low pressure system and several frontal boundaries all came together across eastern Kentucky during the day on April 11, 2024. Radar showed scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms across the state through much of the day.
Read the full account →A strengthening low pressure system and several frontal boundaries all came together across eastern Kentucky during the day on April 11, 2024. Radar showed scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms across the state through much of the day.
Read the full account →The remnants of Hurricane Helene made their way through the Quad State region with heavy rainfall in Western Kentucky of 4 to 6 inches with the highest totals near 6.5 inches in West Paducah and in Crittenden County.
Read the full account →The remnants of Hurricane Helene made their way through the Quad State region with heavy rainfall in Western Kentucky of 4 to 6 inches with the highest totals near 6.5 inches in West Paducah and in Crittenden County.
Read the full account →The remnants of Hurricane Helene made their way through the Quad State region with heavy rainfall in Western Kentucky of 4 to 6 inches with the highest totals near 6.5 inches in West Paducah and in Crittenden County.
Read the full account →A major outbreak of severe weather occurred on the 8th for the Quad State region. On the synoptic scale, a longwave trough was centered across the Rockies with deep-layer southwesterly flow from the Southern Plains to the Ohio Valley.
Read the full account →A major outbreak of severe weather occurred on the 8th for the Quad State region. On the synoptic scale, a longwave trough was centered across the Rockies with deep-layer southwesterly flow from the Southern Plains to the Ohio Valley.
Read the full account →A major outbreak of severe weather occurred on the 8th for the Quad State region. On the synoptic scale, a longwave trough was centered across the Rockies with deep-layer southwesterly flow from the Southern Plains to the Ohio Valley.
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