More severe storms, downpours cause brief flash flooding

More intense downpours from severe thunderstorms on Monday afternoon caused brief localized flooding in western Kentucky.

Sixty mile-per-hour gusts accompanied the storms all the way from southeast Missouri, where a grain bin was blown across the highway,  to east of the lakes area.

Dozens of storm reports came in to the National Weather Service, including Ballard County, where a weather station in Blandville recorded 1.95 inches of rain in just an hour, causing water to flow over some roads for a time.

A tree came down near the McCracken-Ballard county line. Dime-sized hail was also reported southeast of Paducah, and up to golf ball size in Ledbetter and Smithland.

Flash flooding in Paducah included the railroad viaduct on Jackson Street, 21st Street at Old Mayfield Road and at several intersections from Baptist Hospital toward downtown.

Power lines went down in the Symsonia area, trees came down during the storms in Fredonia and Grand Rivers, and streets flooded in Princeton after two inches of rain fell in less than an hour.

The same weather pattern could repeat each afternoon this week where storms can form and get pushed around the rim of the heat dome in place to our west in Texas and the Plains states.





Wind damage near Sikeston in southeast Missouri from 60-mph gusts that continued through western Kentucky on Monday afternoon.  (SEMO Electric Cooperative Facebook page)