May 11, 2011
Repetitive showers and thunderstorms, moved southeast through southeast Ohio and into portions of northeast Kentucky between 1500E and 1830E on Tuesday, the 10th. In northeast Kentucky, the heaviest rains fell in eastern Greenup County and Boyd County. Later that night some minor water problems reached south, into Lawrence County. ||This convection was just northeast of a warm front. A sharp dew point gradient existed across the front. Surface dew points were around 70 degrees just southwest
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 299490). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Lawrence County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.