May 2, 2010
A surface cold front extended from the Chicago area southwestward across the eastern fringes of the St. Louis metro area to a weak low pressure center over southeast Missouri. The low ejected northeast across southern and eastern Illinois, with the trailing cold front moving east across the Lower Ohio Valley. A broken cluster of severe thunderstorms, with embedded supercells and small bow echoes, moved east-northeastward across western Kentucky. Increasing south-southwesterly low level winds bro
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 228986). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Livingston County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.