Flash Flood — Bell, Kentucky

2024-08-02 · near Arjay, Bell, Kentucky

Event narrative

Flash flooding occurred along Kettle Island Branch Road, and continued to the intersection of Hwy-221 in the community of Kettle Island. The flooding began near the intersection of Kettle Island Branch Road and Old School Lane as well as Blevins Lane. Several homes were surrounded with water, and a parked vehicle was moved by flowing water.

Wider weather episode

By impact standards, this was the least impactful of the four days. By 12Z Friday morning, August 2nd, the cold/stationary front to our northwest finally started to push eastward into western Kentucky. A line of storms had already developed along it and pushed well ahead of it. By the time it reached western Kentucky. The line of storms was already moving into central Kentucky. Thankfully as it reached eastern Kentucky, it began to break apart. However, embedded stronger storms within the system still led to multiple severe thunderstorm warnings just before noon. Storms continued to pop up throughout the day ahead of the approaching cold front. These storms resulted in high rainfall rates and amounts, and ultimately led to additional flash flood warnings and another severe thunderstorm warning or two. Ultimately, given the amount of warnings, the impacts were very minimal, with only one flash flood report and one thunderstorm wind damage report for the day, both in the afternoon.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1211191. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.