Flood — Nelson, Kentucky

2011-11-29 · near Culvertown, Nelson, Kentucky

Event narrative

A man died during the evening of November 29th, when he drove his vehicle around a barricade and attempted to cross a flooded low spot in the road where Bull Run Creek crosses Kentucky State Highway 46. He lost control of his vehicle and hit another vehicle already disabled in the flood water, then drowned when his vehicle was washed off the road and submerged.

Wider weather episode

On Saturday, November 26th, a deep full latitude trough across the Central Plains slowly moved east toward the Lower Ohio Valley. Light to moderate rain begin across central Kentucky around midnight Sunday morning and continued without interruption through late Monday as the southern portion of the trough developed into a closed low over the Tennessee Valley. Over a 36- to 45-hour period, 2 to locally as much as 4.5 of rain fell over all of central Kentucky. The greatest rainfall totals occurred within a broad band stretching from the Lake Cumberland Region northwest through Louisville into southwestern Indiana. Widespread minor flooding of fields and streams developed in Kentucky, with the closings of numerous low water crossings. Several larger rivers such as the Green, Rolling Fork and the Rough experienced minor flooding.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 350265. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.