Flash Flood, Pike
- When
- July 26, 8:08 PM EST to 10:30 PM EST
- Where
- Pike County, Regina
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.469, -82.396 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Water was flowing over roads along Harless Creek.
Flash Flood in Kentucky, July 26, 2001
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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 Jul 26, 2:10 PM EST, 5 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 2:10 PM EST, 5 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 310 PM EDT THU JUL 26 2001 BIGGEST CONCERN WILL AGAIN BE POTENTIAL FLASH FLOODING. EAST-WEST ORIENTED BOUNDARY STILL NEAR THE OHIO RIVER IS SAGGING SOUTH AND WILL BE ACROSS FA WITH MEAN FLOW NEARLY PARALLEL TO THE FRONT AND HIGH PWS. SO FAR RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE GENERALLY BEHAVED BUT AM RELUCTANT TO CANCEL FLASH FLOOD WATCH AS FRONT WILL BE IN OUR AREA TONIGHT AND WILL PROBABLY NOT CLEAR THE CWA. SURFACE LOW IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA HEADING EAST WITH SHOWERS CONTINUING TO TRAIN. ANY SMALL STREAM FLOODING SEEMS TO BE ISOLATED RIGHT NOW...BUT WILL NOT REMOVE FLASH FLOOD WATCH AS TRAINING OF GENERALLY LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN IS ONGOING. PW TRENDS DOWNWARD TONIGHT AS SOME DRYING OCCURRS IN MID AND UPPER LEVELS AND HENCE BIGGEST CONCERN FOR FLASH FLOODING WILL BE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WILL PROBABLY KEEP LIKELY POPS TONIGHT...AND WILL INCLUDE HIGHER POPS IN THE SOUTH HALF OF CWA FOR TOMORROW AS FRONT WILL PROBABLY BE IN THAT GENERAL VICINITY. NGM QPF SHIFTS PRECIP TOO FAR SOUTH TONIGHT...SO WILL GENERALLY GO HIGHER WITH POPS. AS BOUNDARY HEADS NORTH...WILL CONTINUE POPS THROUGH THE WEEKEND UNTIL UPPER LEVEL HIGH WILL QUELCH CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY NEXT WEEK. .JKL...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ENTIRE FORECAST AREA THROUGH 8 PM. HEINLEIN
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 26, 2001
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, July 26, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, July 26 to 27, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, July 26 to 27, 2001
- Flood in North Dakota, July 26, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, July 26, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, July 26 to 27, 2001
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, July 26, 2001
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, July 26 to 27, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Montana, July 26, 2001
- Flash Flood in Illinois, July 26, 2001
- Flood in Kentucky, July 26, 2001
More
Every storm in Kentucky in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, July 2001
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: 5259415.