Jul 6, 2016
Major flash flooding occurred from the evening of July 6 through the early morning of July 7. A slow-moving thunderstorm complex backed slowly southwestward across western Kentucky and southern Illinois. Rainfall rates up to 8 inches in 6 hours were reported at the peak of the event in Marshall County, KY after midnight. The complex of storms was associated with a small 500 mb shortwave that moved east across western Kentucky late at night. The storms were fed by a very moist southwest wind flow
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 645195). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Hopkins County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.