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Rare flash flood emergencies were issued for Mayfield, Paducah, Fancy Farm, and surrounding areas, and included areas impacted by the 2021 Western Kentucky tornado. [6] [13] [14] As a result, this was the first time flash flood emergencies were issued from the National Weather Service in Paducah, Kentucky for the Jackson Purchase region of the ...
The flood event first began in southwestern West Virginia on July 26. In Mingo County, the Gilbert Creek area along the Kentucky/Virginia/West Virginia border had several homes impacted and several bridges washed out, limiting access to some areas. [7] [8] More flooding occurred in nearby McDowell County as well, in
Road blockage due to flooding south of Jackson at Lost Creek near the KY 476 intersection at mile point 7.6 on KY-15 in Breathitt County Road blockage due to flooding at mile point 17.7 on KY-15 ...
Kentucky’s latest flood disaster hit more than two years after catastrophic flooding left 43 people dead and devastated parts of the state. Water levels from the current flooding didn’t quite ...
In Pikeville, Kentucky, a town with a population of roughly 7,000 people, "nearly every home" in one neighborhood saw flooding impacts, the mayor said.
While the public was still dealing with the effects of the flooding, Kentucky Utilities opened the Dix Dam spillways, which added 3 feet (0.91 m) to the floodwaters. In Mercer County, the ferry to Woodford County washed away and was never replaced. A flood in 1939 rose slightly higher in Hazard than the flood in 1937. [12] [page needed]
A rare level 4 of 4 high risk of flooding rainfall is in place for more than 1.5 million people in parts of northwestern Tennessee and western Kentucky where “life-threatening and significant ...
Major flooding inundated Southeast Kentucky from February 6–7, 2020, as the result of an extremely heavy rain event. [1]Twenty one counties in Eastern Kentucky sustained flood damage, and Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency on February 8, for Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Letcher, Perry and Whitley Counties.