3,183 first-hand accounts of flood events in Kentucky, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Another active period of weather set up across central Kentucky and southern Indiana July 17th and 18th, 2023 as multiple waves of showers and thunderstorms moved across the region, bringing damaging straight-line winds, severe hail, and one tornado to the region.
Read the full account →Another active period of weather set up across central Kentucky and southern Indiana July 17th and 18th, 2023 as multiple waves of showers and thunderstorms moved across the region, bringing damaging straight-line winds, severe hail, and one tornado to the region.
Read the full account →Another active period of weather set up across central Kentucky and southern Indiana July 17th and 18th, 2023 as multiple waves of showers and thunderstorms moved across the region, bringing damaging straight-line winds, severe hail, and one tornado to the region.
Read the full account →Another active period of weather set up across central Kentucky and southern Indiana July 17th and 18th, 2023 as multiple waves of showers and thunderstorms moved across the region, bringing damaging straight-line winds, severe hail, and one tornado to the region.
Read the full account →Northwest flow in the mid- and upper-levels of the atmosphere placed central Kentucky and southern Indiana on the edge of a ring of fire type pattern for several days at the end of July 2023.
Read the full account →Northwest flow in the mid- and upper-levels of the atmosphere placed central Kentucky and southern Indiana on the edge of a ring of fire type pattern for several days at the end of July 2023.
Read the full account →Northwest flow in the mid- and upper-levels of the atmosphere placed central Kentucky and southern Indiana on the edge of a ring of fire type pattern for several days at the end of July 2023.
Read the full account →Northwest flow in the mid- and upper-levels of the atmosphere placed central Kentucky and southern Indiana on the edge of a ring of fire type pattern for several days at the end of July 2023.
Read the full account →Northwest flow in the mid- and upper-levels of the atmosphere placed central Kentucky and southern Indiana on the edge of a ring of fire type pattern for several days at the end of July 2023.
Read the full account →A warm front moved eastward towards the Kentucky border counties during the day on September 9th, 2023. It then stalled during the afternoon and evening along the highest terrain just east of the state.
Read the full account →A warm front moved eastward towards the Kentucky border counties during the day on September 9th, 2023. It then stalled during the afternoon and evening along the highest terrain just east of the state.
Read the full account →A warm front moved eastward towards the Kentucky border counties during the day on September 9th, 2023. It then stalled during the afternoon and evening along the highest terrain just east of the state.
Read the full account →A cluster of severe thunderstorms formed over northwest Kentucky and the Pennyrile region during the late evening hours. These storms produced numerous reports of large hail and a couple of marginally severe wind gusts.
Read the full account →A low pressure system and frontal boundary were slowly sinking southward into the Commonwealth during the overnight hours from May 8th through May 9th. A line of storms had dropped southward of the frontal boundary, creating an outflow boundary pushing southeast.
Read the full account →A low pressure system and frontal boundary were slowly sinking southward into the Commonwealth during the overnight hours from May 8th through May 9th. A line of storms had dropped southward of the frontal boundary, creating an outflow boundary pushing southeast.
Read the full account →Clusters of strong thunderstorms over southeast Missouri and northwest Tennessee merged into a complex of severe thunderstorms over southwest Kentucky.
Read the full account →Clusters of strong thunderstorms over southeast Missouri and northwest Tennessee merged into a complex of severe thunderstorms over southwest Kentucky.
Read the full account →A complex of severe thunderstorms moved southeast from southwest Indiana, producing isolated wind damage and street flooding in Henderson County. The complex of storms initiated along a stationary front draped from west to east across central Illinois and central Indiana.
Read the full account →Northwest to southeast oriented bands of thunderstorms moved southeast, training over the same areas for several hours. A strong and very moist low-level wind flow fed the storms, with 850 mb winds generally from 35 to 40 knots.
Read the full account →Scattered to numerous thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall developed over southeast Missouri during the night of the 3rd. These southeastward-moving storms gradually morphed into an area of widespread moderate rainfall with isolated embedded storms through the morning of the…
Read the full account →Several rounds of showers and thunderstorms moved through southern Ohio from Friday the 22nd into Sunday the 24th. The heaviest rains brushed Greenup County in northeast Kentucky.
Read the full account →A few damaging wind events and an isolated tornado occurred across western Kentucky during the late night/early morning hours. Instability was meager, but very strong wind shear contributed to an environment favorable for a few severe storms.
Read the full account →A few damaging wind events and an isolated tornado occurred across western Kentucky during the late night/early morning hours. Instability was meager, but very strong wind shear contributed to an environment favorable for a few severe storms.
Read the full account →A few damaging wind events and an isolated tornado occurred across western Kentucky during the late night/early morning hours. Instability was meager, but very strong wind shear contributed to an environment favorable for a few severe storms.
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