Clean up continues in Kentucky after remnants of Hurricane Helene hit the Commonwealth Friday through Sunday.

There are no reports of any deaths in Kentucky, but the death toll has now topped 100 in other southern states affected by Halloween, rain and winds and knocked down trees and damaged buildings in Kentucky.

Some people are still without electricity and crews work to restore it.

The remnants of Hurricane Helene brought powerful winds and soaking rains to Kentucky.

Our Christy Dalton spoke to Shane how one day from the Kentucky maisonette about which areas of the state were hit.

The hardest.

Shane Hall Andy, you were monitoring the Kentucky basin at 78 weather monitors across the state.

So you got to see in real time the impacts of Kentucky's weather as Hurricane Helene or the remnants have moved through, right?

Yeah, that's right.

We saw some soaking rains moved through the state, especially late Thursday night, Friday, and even continued into part of the weekend as that remained low, continue to sort of sit and spend over the region.

We saw a generous soaking anywhere from about two inches up to upwards of seven inches of rain fall across portions of the state.

The highways part of the state got the got hit the worst with the rainfall.

Yeah.

So in the east we had Harlan County picking up over seven inches of rain in the last five days.

Most of that coming from the remnants of Holly over in the West.

We had Marshall County picking up more than six inches of rain in the last five days.

Quite a bit to people.

No.

Most of the state has been in drought, some parts of it in severe drought or worse in the last couple of weeks.

So this rain was no doubt beneficial even though it was coming rather late for some of the double crop farmers, particularly the soybean farmers.

This does put the kibosh on not only the drought but also the burn bands, which have become much more numerous due to all the dry weather that we've had of late.

Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that.

And were there any flooding issues with this or any flooding issues that still remain now from all that rainfall?

We are fortunate here in Kentucky that we were only dealing with minor flooding as a result of the lane, certainly nowhere near the extent of our neighbors to the south and southeast down in eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, where the flooding was absolutely devastating and certainly nothing close to what we had here in eastern Kentucky back in July of 2020 to fall total state into the single digits of inches rather than getting into the double digits.

That said, there were some scattered power outages and that they were quite numerous at the height of this event, well over 100,000.

But even that number is nowhere near what we had back in 2008, when the remnants of Hurricane Ike rolled through the state to produce a 75 mile per hour wind gusts up in Louisville.

We had power outages to the tune of over 600,000 at one point during the height of that storm.

So.

Okay.

Well, let's talk about the wind gusts.

Let's talk about these wind gusts with the remnants of Hurricane Helene.

What were some of the fastest winds we saw and who had the most powerful winds in Kentucky?

Which region?

The strongest wind recorded here in Kentucky happened at the Bluegrass Airport in Lexington, 65 mile per hour wind gust there.

That was clocked back on Friday as Holly first moved through As far as amazing sites are concerned.

Our strongest gust was over the eastern part of the state and Morgan County.

That was up to 60 miles an hour.

So not as strong as the winds we had back on March 3rd of last year, which got up to either hurricane force in some instances.

But these were strong tropical storm force winds that were enough to down some trees and power lines.

Okay.

So with the winds and the rain now, as we take a look ahead for this week, it's much calmer forecast, but hurricane season is not over yet, right?

No, it is not.

There's been an area of interest showing up now for the last several days in the northwestern Caribbean, just off the coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

As of last check from the National Hurricane Center, they've given that a 40% chance of development.

The computer models are all over the place as far as projected movement.

With that, it's too soon to say that this will certainly develop into a hurricane and B, that this is going to move into Florida or back into the areas of the southeast that were so ravaged by Holly.

We're just going to have to wait and see.

Yeah, wait and see.

That's the name of the game.

Well, thank you so much, Shane.

Thank you, Christine.

And thank you, Christine Shane.

Kentucky is helping other states affected by Halloween.

Here's a social media post from Governor Andy Beshear.

Quote, Kentucky Emergency Management has sent an incident management team to North Carolina to assist in disaster recovery.

Thank you for living out our Kentucky values by helping those in need and of quote.