Tuesday, September 22, 2009

3 years ago Sept 22nd-23rd flooding/severe wx

A complex setup of severe weather came about in the first days of actual fall in 2006. It in some areas actually upstaged the football games going on that weekend.

A warm front on Friday September 22nd focused several storms mostly supercells which gradually turned into clusters and short line segments. On the evening of the 22nd four tornadoes occurred. 3 F1's and 1 Fo. The most damage occurred along the riverfront in Livingston County the supercell than moved across Crittenden County and into Webster County in which a store was deroofed and a mobile home thrown and destroyed across the road in Crittenden County. Also a F1 did minor damage in Whitesville in eastern Daviess County. These 3 tornadoes were all F1 and were all part of one supercell storm.

A minor line also caused one brief F0 and wind damage across West KY later that night but mostly flooding. As lines of storms and clusters would move across the same areas over and over again from early on Sept 22nd though early Sept 24th. At the end of the period some areas in West KY esp from Eddyville and Murray west towards Fulton received more than 11 inches of rain. Some areas required many water rescues and had many buildings flooded.
Over 100 water rescues occurred across Kentucky in this event.

Funnel clouds, one Ballard County F1 tornado, isolated wind damage and more flooding occurred with the cold front and main line on Sept 23rd

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