Flash Flooding Kills 5 in Kentucky and Tennessee as 10 Inches of Rain Trigger Rescues
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Updated · abcnews.com · Jun 29
Flash Flooding Kills 5 in Kentucky and Tennessee as 10 Inches of Rain Trigger Rescues
3 articles · Updated · abcnews.com · Jun 29
Summary
A fifth death was reported Sunday in Tennessee after a 39-year-old woman was swept into a culvert while trying to rescue her son, lifting the regional flood toll to five.
More than 10 inches of rain fell in parts of Kentucky on Saturday, and the National Weather Service kept parts of Kentucky and Tennessee under a level 3 of 4 moderate flood risk Sunday.
Kentucky's flooding already had killed four people — three in Madison County and one in Jackson County — while search-and-rescue operations continued and multiple water rescues were reported.
Nine Kentucky counties had declared emergencies by Sunday, Beshear said, with bridges and roads washed out; Clinton County and Albany also issued local emergencies as homes flooded and evacuations began.
The flooding threat stretched into southern Indiana, northeast Tennessee and northwest North Carolina, even as a separate extreme-heat spell was forecast to build across the Midwest and Northeast this week.