Jul 3, 2016
Multiple clusters of thunderstorms intensified during the heat of the day along and south of a warm front that arced over far southern Illinois and across southern Kentucky. The storms occurred ahead of an upper-level disturbance over eastern Missouri. A belt of stronger west-southwesterly winds aloft associated with the disturbance was sufficient for organized updrafts. A few embedded small-scale bow echoes and transient supercells were associated with isolated wind damage and a brief tornado.
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 642490). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Graves County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.