Nov 29, 2011
On Saturday, November 26th, a deep full latitude trough across the Central Plains slowly moved east toward the Lower Ohio Valley. Light to moderate rain begin across central Kentucky around midnight Sunday morning and continued without interruption through late Monday as the southern portion of the trough developed into a closed low over the Tennessee Valley. Over a 36- to 45-hour period, 2 to locally as much as 4.5 of rain fell over all of central Kentucky. The greatest rainfall totals occur
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 350265). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Nelson County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.