3,183 first-hand accounts of flood events in Kentucky, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Locally heavy rain resulted in some isolated flash flooding in the Purchase area of west Kentucky. As a 500 mb trough ejected into the central U.S, a prefrontal surface trough acted to quickly spread a swath of heavy rain into the region by daybreak.
Read the full account →Locally heavy rain resulted in some isolated flash flooding in the Purchase area of west Kentucky. As a 500 mb trough ejected into the central U.S, a prefrontal surface trough acted to quickly spread a swath of heavy rain into the region by daybreak.
Read the full account →An upper level ridge was in place across eastern Kentucky and points eastward, but was weakening on June 30th heading into the evening hours. This was allowing for decent return southerly flow and increased shower and thunderstorm potential.
Read the full account →Several days of heavy to torrential rains and gusty winds were experienced across eastern Kentucky from July 9th through the 12th. A strong surface low pressure remained parked across Illinois to our WNW, with a frontal boundary expanding eastward and through Kentucky, sinking…
Read the full account →Several days of heavy to torrential rains and gusty winds were experienced across eastern Kentucky from July 9th through the 12th. A strong surface low pressure remained parked across Illinois to our WNW, with a frontal boundary expanding eastward and through Kentucky, sinking…
Read the full account →Several days of heavy to torrential rains and gusty winds were experienced across eastern Kentucky from July 9th through the 12th. A strong surface low pressure remained parked across Illinois to our WNW, with a frontal boundary expanding eastward and through Kentucky, sinking…
Read the full account →Despite high pressure being in general control at the surface, a shortwave was moving into western KY during the morning hours, and would provide the energy needed, in an already very moist atmosphere, to trigger showers and thunderstorms throughout the day.
Read the full account →A very anomalous storm system produced winter weather across the Rockies, Upper Midwest, and Great Lakes region and severe weather across the mid-Mississippi and Ohio Valley regions.
Read the full account →Central Kentucky sat under the leading edge of an upper ridge during a period of typical summer weather. Temperatures rose during the day creating strong instability in the atmosphere that caused showers and thunderstorms to breakout.
Read the full account →A very anomalous storm system produced winter weather across the Rockies, Upper Midwest, and Great Lakes region and severe weather across the mid-Mississippi and Ohio Valley regions.
Read the full account →Central Kentucky sat under the leading edge of an upper ridge during a period of typical summer weather. Temperatures rose during the day creating strong instability in the atmosphere that caused showers and thunderstorms to breakout.
Read the full account →Central Kentucky sat under the leading edge of an upper ridge during a period of typical summer weather. Temperatures rose during the day creating strong instability in the atmosphere that caused showers and thunderstorms to breakout.
Read the full account →Central Kentucky sat under the leading edge of an upper ridge during a period of typical summer weather. Temperatures rose during the day creating strong instability in the atmosphere that caused showers and thunderstorms to breakout.
Read the full account →Central Kentucky sat under the leading edge of an upper ridge during a period of typical summer weather. Temperatures rose during the day creating strong instability in the atmosphere that caused showers and thunderstorms to breakout.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted north into the state Saturday, allowing for an intensification of moisture advection into the area. This was then followed up by a passing cold front and associated cold front, both of which provided lift and helped provide heavy rains across the state.
Read the full account →Heavy rain along the Green River basin from the May 23rd storms resulted in water levels rising at Paradise into minor flood on the 25th, while additional heavy rain from the May 26th storms caused a further rise to several feet above moderate flood stage at Paradise and a rise…
Read the full account →Heavy rain along the Green River basin from the May 23rd storms resulted in water levels rising at Paradise into minor flood on the 25th, while additional heavy rain from the May 26th storms caused a further rise to several feet above moderate flood stage at Paradise and a rise…
Read the full account →A couple of frontal boundaries and a weak shortwave trough, combined with ample low and middle level moisture, led to the formation of scattered to numerous heavy rainfall producing showers and thunderstorms across portions of eastern Kentucky during the afternoon and evening…
Read the full account →Heavy rain fell in the morning of March 1, the afternoon of March 1, and again during the overnight of March 1 to 2. This resulted in repeated episodes of flash flooding. Homes were flooded near Preston, Olympia, State Valley, and Wyoming.
Read the full account →Strong instability, combined with weak winds aloft, led to the development of scattered strong thunderstorms across central Kentucky during the late afternoon and evening hours. The strongest storms produced marginally severe hail and isolated damaging wind gusts.
Read the full account →Pockets of minor flooding occurred following a heavy rainfall event. Rainfall rates increased the night of the 17th into early on the 18th as a mid level shortwave trough pushed southeastward into the Plains states and interacted with a warm front lifting|northward across the…
Read the full account →Pockets of minor flooding occurred following a heavy rainfall event. Rainfall rates increased the night of the 17th into early on the 18th as a mid level shortwave trough pushed southeastward into the Plains states and interacted with a warm front lifting|northward across the…
Read the full account →A band of thunderstorms became stationary from west to east across the southern portion of western Kentucky. The storms were fed by a rather strong west-southwest low level jet up to 40 knots.
Read the full account →A cold front moved southeast across the lower Ohio Valley on the 9th, accompanied by a band of heavy rainfall. The heavy rain occurred under southwest flow associated with a broad 500 mb trough extending from the upper Mississippi Valley to the southern Plains.
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