Aug 7, 2019
Surface high pressure was over the upper Mid-west while a cold front extended through central Indiana to southwest through Missouri. In the mid and upper levels, northwest flow prevailed over southern Indiana and central Kentucky. Ahead of the cold front, a line of storms began with the heating of the day. This line traveled south as it intensified, becoming a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) which produced large severe hail in southern Indiana and hail and damaging winds in central Kentucky.
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 847128). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Nicholas County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.