Lexington Area Weather (Louisville, Nicholasville: how much, transfer, neighborhoods)

[happeemommee]

Hey everyone! Just found out DH may be transfered near Lexington. I am pretty excited, except I've heard that this area of KY has a lot of tornadoes and flooding. Is this true? Are there any areas that are worse than the others? Where do you recommend? Also, how much snow does this area get?

[stx12499]

Originally Posted by happeemommee

Hey everyone! Just found out DH may be transfered near Lexington. I am pretty excited, except I've heard that this area of KY has a lot of tornadoes and flooding. Is this true? Are there any areas that are worse than the others? Where do you recommend? Also, how much snow does this area get?

Lexington gets a few tornadoes, but it is not really anything like Tornado Alley in the plains. You will usually get about 1 tornado warning a year, but it usally ends up not coming. I can't remember the last time a torndao hit Lexington, but it might have been in the large outbreak in 1974, which hit Louisville pretty good. Floods are more common in Louisville because of the river, but I can't see any reason why Lexington would have worse flooding than anywhere in the interior of the country. Flash flooding can happen in the winter around creeks. I would probably stick to the facts on this one by going to noah.org and looking at historical climate data for Lexington and where you are moving from, and compare the two.

[Toria]

The National Climatic Data Center (part of NOAA) has a great site where you can check the storm history of any state and county back to the 1950's, and filter the results by type of storm:

NCDC Storm Events-Select State

[stx12499]

Originally Posted by Toria

The National Climatic Data Center (part of NOAA) has a great site where you can check the storm history of any state and county back to the 1950's, and filter the results by type of storm:

NCDC Storm Events-Select State

Thanks, that is the link I was referring to, but I was only too lazy to post it

[nlschr0]

I think the last Lexington tornado was in 2004 - the F3 that touched down in the Masterson Station area. Generally, though, tornado warnings are pretty infrequent.

One "flooding" issue that affects some Lexington neighborhoods is the concern of outdated storm sewers. A major, heavy rain can cause some street flooding and some consequent basement/building floodings. This is mostly a concern in some older, central neighborhoods - I would ask your realtor about it. I know that the Nicholasville Rd area around campus has had issues for a while - this past year, two women were actually killed there in the surge of stormwater when they tried to cross the closed intersection.

[happeemommee]

Thanks so much for the replies! I will check all these links out.