July 9th-15th, 2015 Severe Weather and Flooding

The middle of July was a rather active week as a large area of high pressure across the southern United States allowed areas of low pressure to ride around it into the Ohio Valley. These multiple areas of low pressure each produced thunderstorm complexes which pushed southeast through the region over the past week. These thunderstorm complexes each produced rounds of flash flooding, straight-line damaging winds, and even a few tornadoes at the sped across southern Indiana and Kentucky.

Flash Flooding

Each round of thunderstorms brought very heavy rainfall to the region, especially across southern Indiana and central Kentucky. These repeated rounds of torrential rainfall lead to rather widespread flash flooding, especially Monday night into Tuesday morning (July 13th into July 14th).

Below is a map of the rainfall totals from this week. Notice some of the rainfall totals in excess of 10 inches, in just 7 days!

Below are some pictures of Flash Flooding that occurred early on July 12th. The pictures were taken in Louisville and in New Albany and Austin, IN. The picture on the bottom left was taken on July 14th in Louisville. Click on the picture to enlarge.

Damaging Winds

Below are images of the damaging wind reports for each day. The Ohio River Valley experienced several reports on 7/9, and 7/10, but were especially hard hit on 7/13, and 7/14. Click on any image to enlarge it.

Tree damage in Munfordville, Uprooted tree in Russell Structural damage to a barn Damage to a metal building in

KY on July 9th. Springs, KY on July 9th. in Bedford, KY on July 14th. Bedford, KY on July 14th.

Tornadoes

Although they were not widespread, a few tornadoes developed in some of the thunderstorm complexes. Below are the locations of the tornadoes, along with some pictures of the damage they produced.