Feb 24, 2011
A powerful mid-level shortwave trough ejected east-northeast across the southern Plains, reaching the lower and mid Mississippi Valley during the night. In the lower levels, a low intensified as it tracked from Oklahoma into southern Missouri during the day, then across the Lower Ohio Valley in the evening. To the east of the low, a warm front advanced northward to the Lower Ohio Valley. Storms moving east-northeast evolved into an extensive QLCS (quasi-linear convective system) that produced sc
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 281069). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Hickman County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.