3,183 first-hand accounts of flood events in Kentucky, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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 →Areas of strong thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall and flash flooding across portions of Pulaski, Rockcastle, Perry, Wayne, Jackson, Whitley, and Owsley counties during the early morning hours of September 26th.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms moved across the region on the evening of March 2. A long-track supercell thunderstorm crossed the Mississippi River from the Cairo, IL area.
Read the full account →Isolated showers and thunderstorms developed late this afternoon into this evening. While these were overall weaker than those that occurred over the previous day or two in this persistent summer-like pattern, the slow movement of the storms led to flash flooding issues in Rowan…
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms developed very late this afternoon and early evening as a hot and humid airmass remained in place across eastern Kentucky.
Read the full account →A slow moving low pressure system drifted across the Ohio Valley on May 18 and 19, bringing several rounds of heavy rain to the eastern reaches of the Commonwealth.
Read the full account →A slow moving low pressure system drifted across the Ohio Valley on May 18 and 19, bringing several rounds of heavy rain to the eastern reaches of the Commonwealth.
Read the full account →A slow moving low pressure system drifted across the Ohio Valley on May 18 and 19, bringing several rounds of heavy rain to the eastern reaches of the Commonwealth.
Read the full account →A slow moving low pressure system drifted across the Ohio Valley on May 18 and 19, bringing several rounds of heavy rain to the eastern reaches of the Commonwealth.
Read the full account →An unseasonably strong storm system impacted the region January 10-11. Heavy rainfall, flooding, scattered damaging winds, tornadoes, and gusty non-thunderstorm winds impacted western Kentucky during this time.
Read the full account →An unseasonably strong storm system impacted the region January 10-11. Heavy rainfall, flooding, scattered damaging winds, tornadoes, and gusty non-thunderstorm winds impacted western Kentucky during this time.
Read the full account →An unseasonably strong storm system impacted the region January 10-11. Heavy rainfall, flooding, scattered damaging winds, tornadoes, and gusty non-thunderstorm winds impacted western Kentucky during this time.
Read the full account →An unseasonably strong storm system impacted the region January 10-11. Heavy rainfall, flooding, scattered damaging winds, tornadoes, and gusty non-thunderstorm winds impacted western Kentucky during this time.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms developed along a surface warm front that lifted slowly north across western Kentucky and southern Illinois in the afternoon. Soils were quite saturated from recent heavy rains, causing rapid runoff and isolated flash flooding.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms developed along a surface warm front that lifted slowly north across western Kentucky and southern Illinois in the afternoon. Soils were quite saturated from recent heavy rains, causing rapid runoff and isolated flash flooding.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms developed along a surface warm front that lifted slowly north across western Kentucky and southern Illinois in the afternoon. Soils were quite saturated from recent heavy rains, causing rapid runoff and isolated flash flooding.
Read the full account →Clusters of thunderstorms increased in coverage and intensity during the afternoon along an east to west corridor across southeast Missouri into western Kentucky. The storms produced very heavy rainfall, along with an isolated damaging wind gust or two.
Read the full account →The combination of very weak flow aloft and an anomalously unstable and moist environment along a residual outflow boundary promoted the development of thunderstorms across the mid Mississippi and lower Ohio Valleys through the late afternoon into mid evening.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms moved across the region on the evening of March 2. A long-track supercell thunderstorm crossed the Mississippi River from the Cairo, IL area.
Read the full account →A slow moving low pressure system drifted across the Ohio Valley on May 18 and 19, bringing several rounds of heavy rain to the eastern reaches of the Commonwealth.
Read the full account →A slow moving low pressure system drifted across the Ohio Valley on May 18 and 19, bringing several rounds of heavy rain to the eastern reaches of the Commonwealth.
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