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Kentucky floods kill 4 as Beshear declares state of emergency
Four dead in Kentucky floods as Governor Andy Beshear declares state of emergency. Search and rescue teams go door to door in Madison County. More rain expected.
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Flooding from thunderstorms in Kentucky has killed four people, Governor Andy Beshear said Saturday, as he declared a state of emergency and warned that more rain was coming.
Beshear announced the deaths on X, writing that three people died in Madison County and one in Jackson County. Two victims, a man and a woman, were found inside a home in Richmond after floodwaters trapped residents, the Madison County coroner's office said. Another victim was pulled from a vehicle on Tates Creek Road near Lexington.
Search and rescue teams were going door to door in hard-hit areas, said Carlos Coyle, the deputy Madison County coroner. Some areas remained inaccessible.
The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings for Kentucky and parts of Indiana. Between 4 and 10 inches of rain fell in southwestern Indiana, the NWS said, with more possible. Kentucky saw up to 7 inches in some areas through late evening.