Event narrative (NOAA)
Defeated Creek rose over its banks. Portions of State Highway 85 were covered with approximately 8 inches of water. The Gladdice Fire Department Building appeared to be flooded. Cummins Mill Road was flooded. Swiftly moving water was reported crossing Rush Fork Road in Bloomington Springs.||Newspapers reported that most roads leading into the Blackburn Fork Creek area had been washed away. In all, 35-45 homes were damaged. Three homes and another was washed away in the Roaring River area. There were also several water rescues, including a 69 year old women whose home had been washed away several hours before on Blackburn Ford Road and near a rising creek in the southern part of the county. County schools were closed on Thursday, August 19th due to the flooding.|Pavement was reported to hav
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.