Flash Flood — Floyd, Indiana

2025-02-16 · near Greenville, Floyd, Indiana

Event narrative

Georgetown Greenville Road was closed due to high water.

Wider weather episode

A major heavy rain and flash flooding event took place across southern Indiana and central Kentucky on February 15th and 16th, 2025. The large scale upper level pattern featured deep troughing ejecting across the central CONUS, with broad southwesterly flow occurring in the low and mid troposphere. Southerly flow helped to draw rich moisture up from the Gulf of America, with unseasonably high precipitable water for the middle of February overspreading the Tennessee and lower Ohio Valley. A nearly stationary surface front extending from west to east across the lower Ohio Valley provided a source for lift as warm and humid air ascended over a cool near surface layer. Light to moderate rain developed across the region early on the morning of the 15th, with precipitation gradually getting heavier across southern Indiana during the afternoon hours. As the main surface low pressure system moved across the region during the nighttime hours on the 15th into the 16th, heavier rain, with some embedded thunderstorms, moved across the area. While the severe thunderstorm threat and the heaviest rainfall remained over southern Kentucky, southern Indiana still received several inches of rainfall before precipitation ended on the 16th, resulting in scattered instances of flooding and flash flooding. Precipitation ended as a band of light to moderate snow on the morning of the 16th, producing accumulations of 1 to 3 inches before ending.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1236343. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.