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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says water is reaching 'historic levels' in the city of Elizabethtown, about 40 miles south of Louisville. "Please stay off the roads and avoid high water," Beshear said ...
Louisville weather forecast Wednesday : A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5 p.m. Partly sunny, with a high near 83 degrees.
A strong storm hit Lexington in the early morning hours Wednesday, according to WKYT chief meteorologist Chris Bailey. No damage was reported but the LG&E & KU power outage map showed 21 outages ...
The lake's level is maintained at different levels throughout the year for flood control purposes. Summer pool, 359 ft (109 m) above sea level, is normally reached by May 1. The water level begins dropping gradually on July 1, and winter pool (354 ft; 108 m) is reached by December 1. The spring rise starts April 1.
The 160,309-acre (649 km 2) lake is the largest artificial lake by surface area in the United States east of the Mississippi River, with 2,064 miles (3,322 km) of shoreline. Kentucky Lake has a flood storage capacity of 4,008,000 acre⋅ft (4.944 km 3), more than 2.5 times the next largest lake in the TVA system. It provides a source for hydro ...
Flood forecasting is an important component of flood warning, where the distinction between the two is that the outcome of flood forecasting is a set of forecast time-profiles of channel flows or river levels at various locations, while "flood warning" is the task of making use of these forecasts to tell decisions on warnings of floods.
By comparison, The Weather Channel’s 10-day forecast for Louisville called for rain Friday morning, with scattered thunderstorms and showers possible early in the day. It put the chance for rain ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Kentucky.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).