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 ...

Some major river flooding was also expected, a map posted online by the ... created major flood situations majority of Kentucky West Virginia, and Tennessee. Unfortunately, there have been some ...