Nine people have died following dangerous flooding in the state, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has confirmed.
Given all this, NOAA's Weather Prediction Center issued its highest level of excessive rainfall threat, shown by the purple-shaded area in the map below from western Tennessee into Kentucky.
See map Flash flooding from the torrential downpours ... southwestern Pennsylvania and much of West Virginia. Many parts of Tennessee and Kentucky are projected to receive 4-8 inches of rain ...
Life-threatening flash flooding swept across parts of Tennessee and Kentucky ... of impassable roads dotted the map in western Tennessee and into southern Kentucky, where rainfall reports climbed ...