More than four inches of rain in just about an hour on Saturday afternoon left water standing in many places around Hopkinsville and Christian County.
The National Weather Service said that a water rescue was performed at mile marker 11 on the Pennyrile Parkway when a car drove off into the median.
Hopkinsville Mayor J. R. Knight told WKDZ that the city recorded just over four inches of rainfall within about an hour and left several streets flooded.
The same thunderstorms drenched the final day of the Western Kentucky State Fair. Major flooding problems in the track and pit area of the fairgrounds forced the cancellation of Saturday night’s truck and tractor pulls.
Saturday was the third time this year that Hopkinsville has experienced heavy rainfall that led to flooding throughout parts of the city.
In fact, the entire spring has seen more than double the usual amount of 27 inches of rain for the first half of western Kentucky.
The Mesonet network of weather stations across western Kentucky shows many western Kentucky counties receiving more than 44 inches of rain so far. In Marshall County, more than 50 inches were measured, even before Saturday's heavy rains.
(Photo: Hopkinsville Fire Department)
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