Isolated to scattered strong thunderstorms caused flash flooding in Whitley and Perry counties on July 27th.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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 episode as NWS JKL wrote it up.
Isolated to scattered strong thunderstorms caused flash flooding in Whitley and Perry counties on July 27th.
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 27, 1:59 PM EST, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 259 PM EDT TUE JUL 27 2010 .SHORT TERM.../TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT/...UPDATED COMPLEX OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OUT IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY...WHERE A NICE THETA-E RIDGE HAS BEEN BUILDING...ALONG WITH WEAK FORCING PROVIDED FROM A WEAK FRONTAL/DIFFERENTIAL HEATING BOUNDARY TRYING TO ADVANCE NORTHEAST FROM SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. WEST OF I-75 AND NEAR THE BLUEGRASS COUNTIES SAW VERY LITTLE CONVECTION FROM THIS MORNING...SO EXPECT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS CONVECTION TO DEVELOP AND MOVE THROUGH THESE AREAS THROUGH THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. ELSEWHERE...ISOLATED TO ONLY WIDELY SCATTERED CONVECTION WILL OCCUR...AS CLOUDS HAVE HUNG TOUGH. WEAK...BUT PERSISTENT SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW IN THE LOWER HALF OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL KEEP A SMALL THREAT OF CONVECTION GOING THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT...ALTHOUGH AN OVERALL DOWNWARD TREND IS EXPECTED WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO BE A THREAT...WITH MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS REMAINING A CONCERN. A TROUGH WILL MOVE THROUGH THE GREAT LAKES THROUGH NEW ENGLAND TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...SENDING A COLD FRONT THROUGH THE COMMONWEALTH ON THURSDAY. RIDGING WILL BE SUPPRESSED FURTHER SOUTH ON WEDNESDAY...LEAVING THE AREA OPEN TO PASSING SHORT WAVE TROUGHS. WITH PLENTY OF MOISTURE IN PLACE...NUMEROUS CONVECTION IS EXPECTED. THE COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND PASS THROUGH ON THURSDAY. HAVE BROUGHT THE POPS UP TO 50 PERCENT FOR THURSDAY...WITH ONLY A FEW SHOWERS OR STORMS LINGERING THE CUMBERLAND VALLEY EARLY THURSDAY NIGHT...BEFORE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FROM THE OHIO VALLEY. MUGGY TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE SHORT TERM. FOR TEMPERATURES...CONTINUED WITH THE BLEND OF MOS...PARTICULARLY ON THE HIGHS...AS CLOUD COVER HAS BEEN INHIBITING THESE LATELY...BUT NOT QUITE AS COOL AS THE WRF AT TIMES. .LONG TERM.../FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/...UPDATED LITTLE CHANGE TO THE EXTENDED FORECAST THIS AFTERNOON AS A DRY AIR MASS OVER THE AREA FRIDAY TRANSITIONS BACK TO A MORE ACTIVE PATTERN UNDER NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT BY EARLY SATURDAY. A SERIES OF WEAK DISTURBANCES WILL BRING SOME SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TO EASTERN KENTUCKY FROM ABOUT MIDDAY SATURDAY THROUGH LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON. SLIGHT CHANCE POPS STILL LOOK GOOD FOR THESE TIME PERIODS AND WILL CONTINUE THEM FROM INHERITED FORECAST. BEYOND SUNDAY AFTERNOON...AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BEGIN TO BUILD OVER THE REGION. THIS WILL BRING A RETURN OF WARMER TEMPERATURES BEGINNING MONDAY AND LASTING INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. && .AVIATION.../18Z TO 18Z/ IFR STRATOCU WILL LIFT AND SCATTER OUT IN THE NEXT HOUR...WITH SCATTERED CONVECTION BEING CLOSE ENOUGH TO WARRANT A VCTS. THIS CONVECTION WILL DIE OFF THIS EVENING...WITH MVFR FOG TO CONTEND WITH AT MOST LOCATIONS. ADDITIONAL CONVECTION IS EXPECTED DURING THE DAY TOMORROW...HOWEVER WILL CONTINUE WITH A VCTS REGIME GIVEN THE UNCERTAINTY IN TIMING. && .JKL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && SHORT TERM...GEOGERIAN LONG TERM...MACZKO AVIATION...GEOGERIAN
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 405 PM EDT TUE JUL 27 2010 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-281100- FLEMING-MONTGOMERY-BATH-ROWAN-ESTILL-POWELL-MENIFEE-ROCKCASTLE- JACKSON-PULASKI-LAUREL-WAYNE-MCCREARY-WHITLEY-KNOX-BELL-HARLAN- ELLIOTT-MORGAN-JOHNSON-WOLFE-MAGOFFIN-FLOYD-LEE-BREATHITT-KNOTT- OWSLEY-PERRY-CLAY-LESLIE-LETCHER-MARTIN-PIKE- 405 PM EDT TUE JUL 27 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT. ANY SLOW-MOVING STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...POTENTIALLY CAUSING MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...AS WELL AS SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. ANY SLOW-MOVING STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...POTENTIALLY CAUSING MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY HEAVY RAINFALL OR FLOODING. GEOGERIAN
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:55 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Keswick Rd was reported to be impassable near Route 1804 in Saxton.
Part of Browns Fork Road was washed out near Highway 451.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kentucky in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, July 2010
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: 242782, 242786.