3,183 first-hand accounts of flood events in Kentucky, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Early on May 3rd, central Kentucky sat in the warm sector ahead of an approaching surface low. Much of the region saw only rain showers, but one isolated cell in southern Kentucky was able to produce a short lived EF-1 tornado in the city of Tompkinsville, KY.
Read the full account →Early on May 3rd, central Kentucky sat in the warm sector ahead of an approaching surface low. Much of the region saw only rain showers, but one isolated cell in southern Kentucky was able to produce a short lived EF-1 tornado in the city of Tompkinsville, KY.
Read the full account →A potent and slow moving area of low pressure dumped heavy rainfall on portions of eastern Kentucky on January 24th and 25th. The result for quite a few locations east of I-75 was flooded and washed out roads.
Read the full account →Well above normal rainfall along the Ohio River Valley in January led to rising rivers, with flood stage exceeded slightly across the river from Newburgh Lock and Dam, Mount Vernon, and Shawneetown by the end of the month, continuing into early February.
Read the full account →Well above normal rainfall along the Ohio River Valley in January led to rising rivers, with flood stage exceeded slightly across the river from Newburgh Lock and Dam, Mount Vernon, and Shawneetown by the end of the month, continuing into early February.
Read the full account →Well above normal rainfall along the Ohio River Valley in January led to rising rivers, with flood stage exceeded slightly across the river from Newburgh Lock and Dam, Mount Vernon, and Shawneetown by the end of the month, continuing into early February.
Read the full account →A rather large and slow-moving area of thunderstorms moved east across the lower Ohio Valley. The storms produced heavy rainfall and isolated urban flooding.
Read the full account →A slow-moving band of thunderstorms with torrential downpours affected most of the Pennyrile region of West Kentucky. Storms earlier in the day had already saturated the ground, and this additional rain brought rainfall totals up to 5.66 inches at Princeton, 4.94 inches at…
Read the full account →Thunderstorms dumped 2 to 4 inches of rain over parts of western Kentucky. The National Weather Service office in Paducah measured 3.22 inches, bringing the rainfall total since May 1 to nearly 8.5 inches.
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 →A series of heavy rain events from November 26 to 30 culminated in a moderate flooding event. Rainfall totals for the period from November 26 to 30 were commonly 5 to 9 inches. Specific totals included 6 inches at Paducah, 7.4 inches at Benton, and 9.1 inches at Bardwell.
Read the full account →Scattered clusters of showers and thunderstorms developed in the afternoon hours ahead of a weakening stationary front oriented north to south across the lower Midwest.
Read the full account →Several clusters of thunderstorms occurred along a nearly stationary surface front that extended from northern Arkansas northeast across the Lower Ohio Valley.
Read the full account →A combination of snowmelt in upper portions of the Ohio Valley and a storm system about mid-month eventually led to minor flooding of the Ohio River. The storm system lifted out of the southern Plains on the 9th and moved northeast toward the Mid Atlantic on the 10th.
Read the full account →Training heavy rainfall in the early morning hours of the 10th produced 2 to 4 inches of rainfall from Eddyville to Owensboro, Kentucky. Some of the highest hourly rainfall rates exceeded 1 inch an hour in Hopkins County, with 3 hour totals up to 3 inches, leading to multiple…
Read the full account →Training heavy rainfall in the early morning hours of the 10th produced 2 to 4 inches of rainfall from Eddyville to Owensboro, Kentucky. Some of the highest hourly rainfall rates exceeded 1 inch an hour in Hopkins County, with 3 hour totals up to 3 inches, leading to multiple…
Read the full account →Thunderstorms ahead of an advancing cold front caused wind damage over much of Central Kentucky, mostly in the form of downed trees and power lines. There were also widespread reports of large hail, and a few more reports of non-severe hail in other locations.
Read the full account →Several roads across southern Jefferson county were closed due to high waters as 4 inches of rain fell between 11 pm est May 25 and 11 am est May 26. Area creeks were already backed up due to the near-flooded Ohio River.
Read the full account →As a cold front approached from the west throughout the day, showers and storms were on tap for portions of eastern Kentucky. While these storms did not become severe or cause much impact from the winds or hail, they did put down some heavy rains.
Read the full account →The combination of significant prior snow cover, unusually mild temperatures, and recent rainfall led to widespread flooding on the Ohio river, as well as backwater flooding on a few tributaries.
Read the full account →The combination of significant prior snow cover, unusually mild temperatures, and recent rainfall led to widespread flooding on the Ohio river, as well as backwater flooding on a few tributaries.
Read the full account →The combination of significant prior snow cover, unusually mild temperatures, and recent rainfall led to widespread flooding on the Ohio river, as well as backwater flooding on a few tributaries.
Read the full account →The combination of significant prior snow cover, unusually mild temperatures, and recent rainfall led to widespread flooding on the Ohio river, as well as backwater flooding on a few tributaries.
Read the full account →The combination of significant prior snow cover, unusually mild temperatures, and recent rainfall led to widespread flooding on the Ohio river, as well as backwater flooding on a few tributaries.
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