3,183 first-hand accounts of flood events in Kentucky, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A violent thunderstorm moved across the county, dumping torrential downpours on ground that was already soaked by heavy rain earlier in the day. Over five inches of rain fell at Paducah for the day. Heavy rains caused part of the roof at Paducah Middle School to cave in.
Read the full account →Around 0200E, convection refired in eastern Kentucky, just ahead of a slow moving cold front that was sinking south. The small cluster of showers and thunderstorms trained along the Greenup and Boyd County line. The heaviest rain fell on the Greenup County side of the border.
Read the full account →Persistent thunderstorms resulted in a narrow band of 5 to 6 inch rainfall amounts from near Fulton to Paducah. Around 5.5 inches fell at the Paducah National Weather Service office in about 5 hours. Widespread flash flooding of roads and creeks occurred.
Read the full account →Rains of 1.5 to 2.5 inches fell in less than 90 minutes over eastern Carter, northern Lawrence, and Boyd Counties. In Carter County, water flooded roads around Willard and Jeriel.
Read the full account →A mature, very intense derecho moved rapidly east along a stationary front across the Mid Mississippi Valley into the Lower Ohio Valley. Winds along the bowing portion of the derecho weakened significantly before entering western Kentucky.
Read the full account →Late on the night of May 3rd into the early morning hours of May 4th, an area of thunderstorms caused flooding in more than 20 counties around eastern Kentucky.||For this flooding and additional flooding that occurred in eastern Kentucky from a heavy rainfall event on May 8-9,…
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms across the eastern Bluegrass Region produced a westward moving outflow boundary. Isolated storms developed along this boundary, including one small cell just east of Lexington.
Read the full account →Well above normal rainfall along the Ohio River Valley in January led to rising rivers, with flood stage exceeded slightly at Newburgh Dam, Mount Vernon, and Shawneetown late January, and J.T.
Read the full account →Well above normal rainfall along the Ohio River Valley in January led to rising rivers, with flood stage exceeded slightly at Newburgh Dam, Mount Vernon, and Shawneetown late January, and J.T.
Read the full account →Well above normal rainfall along the Ohio River Valley in January led to rising rivers, with flood stage exceeded slightly at Newburgh Dam, Mount Vernon, and Shawneetown late January, and J.T.
Read the full account →Well above normal rainfall along the Ohio River Valley in January led to rising rivers, with flood stage exceeded slightly at Newburgh Dam, Mount Vernon, and Shawneetown late January, and J.T.
Read the full account →An early morning thunderstorm on August 5th brought heavy rain that briefly closed State Highway 70 in Barren County. Later that afternoon, slow moving thunderstorms developed in a moisture rich air mass ahead of a cold front that was moving south across southern Indiana.
Read the full account →A warm front over the lower Ohio Valley produced numerous training thunderstorms over north central Kentucky during the morning and early afternoon. A cold front brought more heavy rain to north central and east central Kentucky during the afternoon and evening.
Read the full account →The Ohio River rose above flood stage at Paducah on May 7 and did not return below flood stage until May 29. It crested at 44.1 feet on May 13, several feet above the flood stage of 39 feet. Most of the damage was due to submerged cropland.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms affected the area on April 26th as a strong cold front moved through Eastern Kentucky. One round of thunderstorms caused flash flooding during the early morning hours in Rowan County while a squall line caused wind damage around Lake Cumberland.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall in early May, culminating in the May 8th severe weather and flooding event, resulted in rising river levels on the Lower Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, with Olmsted, Cairo, and Hickman reaching minor flood stage in the following days.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall in early May, culminating in the May 8th severe weather and flooding event, resulted in rising river levels on the Lower Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, with Olmsted, Cairo, and Hickman reaching minor flood stage in the following days.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall in early May, culminating in the May 8th severe weather and flooding event, resulted in rising river levels on the Lower Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, with Olmsted, Cairo, and Hickman reaching minor flood stage in the following days.
Read the full account →A thunderstorm with torrential rain moved slowly north from Hickman County across Carlisle County. Rainfall rates were estimated close to two inches per hour, with an unofficial report of one inch in 20 minutes.
Read the full account →A multiple lines and clusters of intense showers and strong to severe thunderstorms brought a variety of severe weather to eastern Kentucky on May 2nd and 3rd.
Read the full account →After several days of heavy rain from thunderstorms across the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic region, water drained down the Ohio River. During the early morning hours of April 15th, the river gauge at Ashland denoted a rise above flood stage and remained the case until later that…
Read the full account →About 6 inches of rain within 48 hours caused flash flooding of roads and streams. Minor flooding of a nursing home was reported.Only a few evacuations were necessary. U.S. 45 was closed by high water between Water Valley and Wingo.
Read the full account →Minor flooding of the Ohio River occurred at the end of the month. At J.T. Myers Lock and Dam near Uniontown, the river rose above flood stage on the 30th. Some flooding of low-lying bottomlands occurred. Kentucky 667 in Union County was closed due to high river water.
Read the full account →Scattered showers and thunderstorms moved across central and southern Kentucky during the afternoon and evening hours on May 3rd. One particular cell remained across portions of LaRue County for an extended period of time, resulting in heavy rainfall totals.
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