1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 21, 2:45 AM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 245 AM CST WED FEB 21 2001 PRIMARY FORECAST CONCERN IS PRECIP TYPE AND AMOUNT WITH PASSAGE OF SHORTWAVE TONIGHT. ON THE 08Z SURFACE MAP...A COLD FRONT CONTINUED TO SAG SLOWLY SOUTH OF THE AREA AND STRETCHED FROM TEXAS TO VIRGINIA. IR LOW CLOUD/FOG CHANNEL CONTINUED TO PICK UP LOW CLOUDS ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION...HOWEVER CEILINGS WERE GENERALLY VFR. KPAH 88D TIME LAPSE CONTINUED TO INDICATE LIGHT RAIN OVER MAINLY WEST KENTUCKY...WITH THE RETURNS FARTHER NORTH OVER SOUTHERN ILLINOIS LIKELY NOT REACHING THE GROUND. FOR TODAY...FRONT WILL REMAIN TO OUR SOUTH...AND THE PRECIP OCCURRING OVER WEST KENTUCKY SHOULD COME TO AN END WITHIN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. WILL WAIT UNTIL CLOSER TO ZONE ISSUANCE TIME TO HANDLE ANY LINGERING PRECIP. THEN AS HIGH PRESSURE NOSES IN...BELIEVE SKIES WILL ATTEMPT TO PARTIALLY CLEAR...ESPECIALLY OVER NORTHERN COUNTIES. SO WILL MAINTAIN A PARTLY SUNNY FORECAST NORTH...WITH MOSTLY CLOUDY SOUTH. MAV/FWC TEMPS ACCEPTABLE. BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AN UPPER DISTURBANCE APPROACHES FROM THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND INTRODUCES A CHANCE OF PRECIP...LATE TODAY IN SEMO...THEN OVERSPREADING THE REST OF THE AREA TONIGHT. WHILE ALL THREE MODELS ARE FAIRLY CONSISTENT WITH THEIR HANDLING OF THIS FEATURE...THE ETA DOES SEEM TO OVERDEVELOP THE LOW AND INVERTED TROUGH OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES BY THURSDAY MORNING. WHEN COMPARED WITH THE NGM AND AVN...THE ETA QPF FORECAST ALSO APPEARS OVERDONE...ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THE MUCH DRIER AIR THAT WILL CONTINUE TO INFILTRATE THE REGION TODAY. NONETHELESS...I WILL NEED TO REINTRODUCE PRECIP INTO THE FORECAST FOR TONIGHT. AFTER COORDINATION WITH KILX...I WILL GO WITH 40 POPS NORTH AND 50 POPS SOUTH. NEXT QUESTION IS RELATED TO PRECIP TYPE. ETA/AVN MODEL SOUNDINGS SUPPORT MAINLY SNOW...POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SLEET OVER NORTHERN COUNTIES (NORTH OF A LINE FROM PERRYVILLE MO TO CALHOUN KY). WITH ABOVE FREEZING 850 MB AIR NUDGING INTO SOUTHERN ZONES AND SURFACE TEMPERATURES ABOVE FREEZING...BELIEVE PRECIP THERE WILL BE PREDOMINANTLY RAIN...POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SLEET AT TIMES. WITH THE WARMER GROUND TEMPERATURES OF LATE AND THE SMALL AMOUNT OF PRECIP EXPECTED...DO NOT BELIEVE THIS EVENT WARRANTS AN ADVISORY AT THIS TIME. OTHERWISE...FWC/MAV TEMPS AGAIN LOOK REASONABLE. ALL NUMERICAL GUIDANCE SHIFTS THE PRECIP CHANCE EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA ON THURSDAY...WITH CLOUDS DECREASING AS WELL. GLANCING AT THE LATEST MRF RUN...EXTENDED PORTION OF FORECAST STILL ON TRACK. WILL KEEP THUNDER IN SOUTHERN ZONES ON SATURDAY...AS IT IS STILL TOO FAR AWAY TO MAKE AN ACCURATE ASSESSMENT. .PAH...NONE. PRESLEY
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Ohio River rose above its flood stage at Newburgh for about 24 hours. The crest of 38.16 feet was only inches above the 38-foot flood stage. This resulted in just some minor flooding of low-lying agricultural bottomland.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, February 2001
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5231846.