Flash Flood, Calloway
- When
- February 28, 8:00 PM CST to 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Calloway County, Murray
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Coordinates
- 36.621, -88.272 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Kentucky, February 28, 1997
Persistent strong thunderstorms produced 2 to 3 inches of rain in a couple of hours. The city of Murray was especially hard hit, where motorists became stranded in water as much as 3 feet deep.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
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- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS PAH wrote it up.
Persistent strong thunderstorms produced 2 to 3 inches of rain in a couple of hours. The city of Murray was especially hard hit, where motorists became stranded in water as much as 3 feet deep. An elderly woman and her son were rescued from their flooded house. Some county roads remained impassable all night. This was the first round of storms to affect the county. Subsequent storms in early March caused more severe flooding.
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:58 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Heat in Maryland, February 28, 1997
- Heat in Delaware, February 28, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, February 28, 1997
- High Wind in Alaska, February 28, 1997
- Flood in Hawaii, February 28, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Montana, February 28, 1997
- Flash Flood in New York, February 28, 1997
- Flash Flood in New York, February 28, 1997
- Flash Flood in Alabama, February 28, 1997
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5591252.