Flash Flood in Pike County, Kentucky

A woman was swept away in flood waters near the intersection of Walters Road and KY Hwy 1460 east of Pikeville.

An isolated severe thunderstorm blew down trees in Montgomery county during the predawn hours of July 17th. The more significant event, however, occurred during the later afternoon and evening hours in Pike county. Slow moving, training thunderstorms dumped between 3 and 7 inches of rain on portions of eastern Pike County in a very short period of time. The sudden inundation of the higher terrain around the Raccoon and Harless Creek drainage basins created a wall of water that swept away nearly everything in its path. The town of Raccoon was the hardest hit of the areas that received flooding. One woman was swept away and drowned by the flood waters. A man also fell to his death after leaning over the railing of a highway bridge and falling 240 feet into the raging creek below.