Marshall County sets all-time 4-day rain record; more than 15 inches

The National Weather Service in Paducah posted this weekend that a location in Marshall County has set an all-time record for rain in their four-state service area.

They said an automated mesonet weather station located 4 miles north of Benton received 15.59" for last week's 4-calendar day period of heavy rains on April 2-5. This breaks the old record for their 58-county coverage area of 15.53" set in Williamsville, Missouri back on August 13-16, 2016. 

Interestingly, a second weather station also broke the all-time record. A CO-OP weather station located 2 miles north of Mayfield received 15.55" over the same 4 days. 

Here are each of the other local counties' top weather station readings:

Kentucky:
Ballard  -  10.69
Caldwell -  12.89
Calloway -  12.31
Christian - 13.95
Crittenden - 8.66
Fulton  -   10.25
Graves   -  15.55
Hickman  -  10.25
Hopkins  -  13.68
Lyon     -  14.80
Marshall -  15.59
McCracken -  8.96
Trigg    -  14.21

Illinois:
Alexander - 10.28
Gallatin  -  8.11
Hamilton  -  6.97
Jackson  -   7.98
Johnson  -  10.41
Massac   -   9.10
Pulaski  -  10.98
Union    -   7.52

You can click to see the rest of the NWS weather station data results  here  .

Overall, based on historical averages, most counties in the region received more than 3 months' worth of rain in just 4 days.

NWS uses primarily COOP, CoCoRaHS, mesonet, and airport locations that have existed at some point over the past 135 years for climatological purposes, so only select stations would qualify for official record purposes. 
han a foot of rain.