Weather forecasters said last week’s rain would reach historic levels, and they proved to be right.
Several counties in western Kentucky set new records for two-, three-, and four-day rainfall totals.
The Caldwell County Mesonet site received 13.39 inches of rain from Wednesday to Sunday. Saturday’s total of 5.52 inches was less than the 1960 record of 7.2 inches. Friday and Saturday’s total was 7.67 inches, which was slightly less than the record of 8.8 inches in 1960.
The three-day total from Thursday to Saturday was 10.61 inches at the Mesonet site, right at the record of 10.67 inches set in February of 1989.
The National Weather Service covers 58 counties in five states. The Marshall County Mesonet site, located four miles north of Benton, received 15.59 inches for the four days ending at midnight Saturday night. That broke the old record of 15.53 inches set in Williamsville, Mo., on August 13-16, 2016.
The Graves County, Kentucky Co-op station, located two miles north of Mayfield, also broke the record, getting 15.55 inches over the same four-day period.
