Kentucky, 2001Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 4, 2001
August 4, 2001 · NWS JKL · 1 event in 1 county or zone
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- $385,000
- 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 forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 3, 8:25 PM EST, 5 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 8:25 PM EST, 5 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
925 PM EDT FRI AUG 3 2001
SFC CHART THIS EVENING SHOWING THE WEAK COLD FRONT STILL JUST TO OUR
NORTH...ACROSS OHIO...ACRSS N KY JUST SOUTH OF THE OHIO RVR. SEVERAL
WEAK WAVES OF LOW PRESSURE ALONG THE FRONT.
MODELS IN FAIR AGREEMENT IN SLOWLY DROPPING THE FRONT THRU THE CWA
TONIGHT. MODELS DO NOT AGREE WELL WITH THE QPF HOWEVER. RADAR PCPN
ESTIMATES VS RAIN GAGES SHOWS THAT THE RADAR MAY BE UNDERESTIMATING
THE RAIN A BIT...LOW TOP-WARM CONVECTION.
THINK THAT WITH SUCH HIGH PW'S THE RAIN TONIGHT MAY CONTINUE TO BE
HEAVY AT TIMES. HOWEVER...NOT ALL AREAS WILL SEE RAIN TONIGHT.
THOUGHT A LITTLE BIT ABOUT LOWERING THE POPS A TAD...BUT CONSIDERING
THE FACT THAT WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF ISSUING A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
FOR PIKE AND FLOYD COUNTIES AT THIS MOMENT...WE WILL LET THE POPS
STAND FOR THE WHOLE CWA AT 50 PERCENT. WE ALSO HAVE AN URBAN AND
SMALL STREAM ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM FOR ESTILL COUNTY.
ALL IN ALL ZONES LOOK OK AND DONT PLAN ON UPDATING THEM AT THIS TIME.
WILL HOLD OFF ON A FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT CONSIDERING THAT THE
PCPN IS NOT GOING TO BE REAL WIDESPREAD...B]UT WILL CONTINUE TO
MONITOR THINGS VERY CLOSELY.
.JKL...NONE
HALL
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 3, 10:33 PM EST, 2 hours 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON, KY
1133 PM EDT FRI AUG 3 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0915 PM 5 E ALLEN KY FLASH FLOODS
08/03/01 FLOYD EVACUATION OF HOME ON
CLARKS BRANCH ROAD AT COW
CREEK. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT AND COUNTY DES.
0930 PM GULNARE KY FLASH FLOODS
08/03/01 PIKE DRIFT BRANCH ROAD, NEAR
LOWER JOHN CREEK,
COMPLETELY IMPASSABLE DUE
TO FLOWING WATER AND
MUDSLIDES. REPORTED BY
MEMBER OF GULNARE FIRE
DEPARTMENT.
0930 PM 4 NW PIKEVILLE KY FLASH FLOODS
08/03/01 PIKE EVACUATION ATTEMPT ON
VEHICLE PUSHED OFF ROAD BY
HIGH WATER ON STATE ROUTE
1384 NEAR HURRICANE CREEK.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
0940 PM 5.5 SE ALLEN KY FLASH FLOODS
08/03/01 FLOYD EVACUATION OF HOME AT MARE
CREEK. REPORTED BY COUNTY
EMERGENCY MANAGER.
0945 PM 5 NW PIKEVILLE KY FLASH FLOODS
08/03/01 PIKE 4.32 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE
7 PM. CREEK NEXT TO HOUSE
OUT OF ITS BANKS. WATER
FLOWING INTO RESIDENCE.
REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.
1115 PM COUNTYWIDE KY FLASH FLOODS
08/03/01 PIKE NUMEROUS STRANDED VEHICLES
DUE TO HIGH WATER. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.
1115 PM HAROLD TO HI HAT KY FLASH FLOODS
08/03/01 KENTUCKY STATE ROUTE 979
CLOSED FROM HAROLD TO HI
HAT DUE TO HIGH WATER.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
KBLocal storm report, Aug 3, 10:33 PM EST, 2 hours 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON, KY
1133 PM EDT FRI AUG 3 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0915 PM 5 E ALLEN KY FLASH FLOODS
08/03/01 FLOYD EVACUATION OF HOME ON
CLARKS BRANCH ROAD AT COW
CREEK. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT AND COUNTY DES.
0930 PM GULNARE KY FLASH FLOODS
08/03/01 PIKE DRIFT BRANCH ROAD, NEAR
LOWER JOHN CREEK,
COMPLETELY IMPASSABLE DUE
TO FLOWING WATER AND
MUDSLIDES. REPORTED BY
MEMBER OF GULNARE FIRE
DEPARTMENT.
0930 PM 4 NW PIKEVILLE KY FLASH FLOODS
08/03/01 PIKE EVACUATION ATTEMPT ON
VEHICLE PUSHED OFF ROAD BY
HIGH WATER ON STATE ROUTE
1384 NEAR HURRICANE CREEK.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
0940 PM 5.5 SE ALLEN KY FLASH FLOODS
08/03/01 FLOYD EVACUATION OF HOME AT MARE
CREEK. REPORTED BY COUNTY
EMERGENCY MANAGER.
0945 PM 5 NW PIKEVILLE KY FLASH FLOODS
08/03/01 PIKE 4.32 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE
7 PM. CREEK NEXT TO HOUSE
OUT OF ITS BANKS. WATER
FLOWING INTO RESIDENCE.
REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.
1115 PM COUNTYWIDE KY FLASH FLOODS
08/03/01 PIKE NUMEROUS STRANDED VEHICLES
DUE TO HIGH WATER. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.
1115 PM HAROLD TO HI HAT KY FLASH FLOODS
08/03/01 FLOYD KENTUCKY STATE ROUTE 979
CLOSED FROM HAROLD TO HI
HAT DUE TO HIGH WATER.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
CORRECTED FOR SPACING
KBLocal storm report, Aug 3, 11:41 PM EST, 1 hour 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON, KY
1241 AM EDT SAT AUG 4 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1220 AM HAROLD KY FLASH FLOODS
08/04/01 FLOYD MUD CREEK FLOWING OVER HWY
979. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
1225 AM BRINKLEY KY FLASH FLOODS
08/04/01 KNOTT DEEP WATER FLOWING OVER
HWY 160. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.Flash Flood, Perry
- When
- August 4, 1:30 AM EST to 3:30 AM EST
- Where
- Perry County, South Portion
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $385,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.244, -83.221 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
The southern portion of the county was hit by several hours of heavy rains which resulted in flash flooding. The damages were extensive enough to classify the county as a Presidentially declared disaster area. Over four inches of rain fell in a short period of time causing runoff from surrounding mountains to deluge Montgomery, Little and Big Leatherwood, Stonyfork and Bull creeks. Most of the damages that resulted were to the roads and bridges in the area. Creeks and streams overflowed their banks causing erosion to road sides. Some roads were actually washed away all together. A large number of homes in the area also received damage from the flash flooding.A man was swept away in Montgomery Creek though two culverts and ended up an 1/8 of a mile downstream in a neighbors garden. He received some broken ribs and a punctured lung. Residents in the area reported that 7 to 8 cars that were stacked in the Montgomery Creek bed 30 years ago to keep the bank from washing away were swept down stream when the creek quickly rose at least 2 feet in an hour. The river depth rose 6 feet in an hour at Hazard. The river had never been known to rise so fast.
- 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.
- Heat in Minnesota, August 4 to 8, 20015 deaths · 42 events
- Tropical Storm in Florida, August 4 to 6, 2001$5.0 million · 14 events
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, August 4, 2001$3.7 million · 1 event
- Tropical Storm in Florida, August 4 to 6, 2001$700,000 · 6 events
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 4, 2001$800,000 · 1 event
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 4, 2001$548,000 · 1 event
- Flash Flooding in Pennsylvania, August 4, 2001$300,000 · 2 events
- Damaging Wind in New Jersey, August 4, 20016 injured · 50 kt wind · 1 event
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, August 4, 20011 injured · $50,000 · 65 kt wind · 1 event
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 4, 2001$50,000 · 61 kt wind · 1 event
- Tropical Storm in Alabama, August 4 to 5, 2001$40,000 · 4 events
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, August 4, 2001$25,000 · 1 event
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: 5264001.