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Flood — Spencer, KY

Jun 17, 2019

Between June 17-19, the Ohio Valley sat in a warm moist environment with a stationary front draped from northeast to southwest across Indiana and on through Texas. Little wind shear existed above central Kentucky. This provided several days where diurnal heating and shortwave forcing kicked off pulse storms with high rainfall rates. After a few days of this, the ground became more saturated and flooding became easier with each event. ||On June 17th in Spencer County, A 40 year old man was travel

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 841676). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Spencer, KY

This event is one of many recorded floods in Spencer County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.

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