1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Rolling Fork of the Salt River at Boston crested at 36.9 feet (35 foot flood stage) at 13:30 est on June 10. Only minor agricultural bottomland flooding resulted.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kentucky in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, June 1997
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: 5599709.