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Rainfall results from weekend downpours, flash flooding
The National Weather Service in Paducah completed its tornado damage survey, and turned to the flash flooding numbers from four states.Multiple rounds of very heavy rain and training thunderstorms moved across our region from the afternoon of June 25th through the morning of June 28th. Rainfall totals of 3 to 12" were observed which resulted in considerable to major flash flooding in many communities including Evansville, Owensboro, Paducah, and Cape Girardeau. The flash flooding was as much a result of the rate of the rainfall, sometimes an inch in only 15 minutes or 2 inches in 30 minutes.
The highest amounts of 10 to 12" were primarily focused across Gibson and Pike counties in southwest Indiana. This amount of rain in a 72-hour period is usually only seen about every 200 years.
Evansville registered 7.80" in a 4 day period, which was their greatest 4-day rainfall since 1996. Pike County, Indiana set a new 3-day rainfall record with 10.85", surpassing the previous record for the county. Daviess County also set a new rainfall record for a 24-hour period, with a site south of Owensboro receiving 6.20", breaking the previous 1-day rainfall record.
Nearly everywhere in the 58-county area received at least 1 to 2" of rain for the period. Western Kentucky and southern Illinois was in the midrange of 2 to 5 inches:
Cape Girardeau 4.35 inches
Cairo 4.5
Barkley Field 4.77
Paducah 3.05
Metropolis 4.68
Calvert City 2.08
Eddyville 3.67
Evansville/Vanderburgh County 7.09
Owensboro 8.0
You can see more photos and details at the NWS summary .
(Photos contributed to NWS by Steve Kyle, Beau Dodson)
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