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Flash Flood — Livingston, KY

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 645394). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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