Sep 25, 2018
On the afternoon of September 22nd, a flash flood watch was issued to cover southeast Indiana and areas in and around the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky.||By September 23rd, a cold front stretched west to east from western Tennessee to far |east-central Kentucky on through eastern Kentucky. The front was tilted northward with the 700 mb level of the front just north of the Ohio River. Low level northward flow carried moisture and overran the front producing widespread stratiform rain showers. The
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 783706). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Fayette County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.