The Kentucky flood of March 1997 was one of the deadliest weather events in the state’s history.
Large amounts of rain fell on central Kentucky and southern Indiana from late February through early March that year.
The thunderstorms and large areas of heavy rain repeatedly moved over the same areas, making for impressive amounts of rainfall and some of the worst flooding along the Ohio River since 1964, according to the National Weather Service . In some places, the flooding was the most since the Great Flood of 1937…