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River Flood Warning 4, NWS Louisville, KY

May 26, 2026Ohio County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this river flood warning at May 26, 2026, 3:39 PM CDT for Ohio County, Kentucky. It took effect at May 26, 2026, 6:49 PM CDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2026, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
In effect from: May 26, 2026, 6:49 PM CDT
Expired: May 27, 2026, 5:39 AM CDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Ohio County, KY

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Rough River near Dundee (DUNK2).

Action stage: 23 ft
Minor stage: 25 ft
Moderate stage: 28 ft
Major stage: 30 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03319000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at May 25, 6:38 PM CDT, 21 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 6:38 PM CDT, 21 hours 1 minute before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	35 min
May 26, 7:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler	28 min
May 26, 7:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Butler, Logan, Simpson	3 hr
May 26, 8:23 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Butler, Logan	3 hr
May 26, 8:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Butler, Logan, Simpson, Warren	4 hr
May 26, 9:22 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Butler, Ohio	3 hr
May 26, 9:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Logan, Simpson, Warren	3 hr
May 26, 10:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Logan, Ohio, Warren	3 hr
May 26, 11:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin, Hart, Larue, Meade	4 hr
May 26, 1:33 PM CDT	Flood Watch	LMK	Anderson, Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Franklin, Harrison and 11 more	30 hr
May 26, 1:38 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Green, Hart, Larue, Marion, Nelson, Taylor	3 hr
May 26, 1:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Marion, Nelson, Washington	3 hr
May 26, 2:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Washington	35 min
May 26, 2:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Marion, Nelson, Washington	117 min
May 26, 3:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Mercer	27 min
May 26, 3:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Anderson, Boyle, Marion, Mercer, Washington, Woodford	3 hr
May 26, 3:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jessamine, Mercer	28 min
May 26, 3:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Fayette, Jessamine, Woodford	33 min
May 26, 4:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Fayette	22 min
May 26, 4:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clark	29 min
May 26, 5:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clark	47 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2026 Every river flood warning in 2026

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.