Kentucky, 2000

Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 3, 2000

August 3, 2000 · NWS LMK · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
$75,000
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.

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1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Hardin

When
August 3, 4:00 PM EST to 5:45 PM EST
Where
Hardin County, Elizabeth Town
Property damage
$75,000
Reported by
NEWSPAPER
Coordinates
37.698, -85.963 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Nearly three inches of rain fell over parts of Hardin and Larue Counties over an hour and a half time period. The Elizabethtown City Springs Water Treatment Plant received 2.8 inches of rain through 430 PM EST. Several roads and highways in Hardin County and in Elizabethtown were closed due to high waters. Flood waters got into some basements and storage sheds in Elizabethtown.

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.

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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: 5170183.