May 26, 2016
A long lived line of thunderstorms tracked from Missouri through Illinois and Kentucky before stalling out across south-central Kentucky during the late afternoon hours on May 26. The humid air mass and slow moving storms brought excessive amounts of rainfall in a short time period. Flash flooding caused some roads to be closed along with some stranded cars. ||Multiple people visiting and touring Hidden River Cave in the Horse Cave community became trapped as water rushed into the cave system. R
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 626625). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Hart County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.