1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
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 Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 30, 3:00 PM EST, 9 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 300 PM EST FRI NOV 30 2001 1ST BATCH OF LOW CLDS ACRS ALL OF OUR FORECAST AREA (FA) SHUD PUSH OUT TNGT ... AS WK WAA COMMENCES. INITIAL CLRG...FOLLOWING THE 55- 65 PCT 1000-850 MB RH AREA... WILL REACH OUR SW FA THIS EVNG...THEN NE FA 06-08Z. MEANWHILE.. MESO ETA WAS SHOWG 2ND BATCH OF LOW CLDS FM NE/KS-NW MO (CONFIRMED ON SAT PICS) ...MOVG E-SEWD TNGT. THIS IN RESPONSE TO SFC TO 850 MB FLOW TURNING MORE W-NWLY. THE 2ND BATCH OF CLDS SHUD REACH OUR NW FA LATE TNGT...AND CROSS CNTRL KY ON SATURDAY MRNG. AS A RESULT...WE WILL HAVE TO PLAY WITH FCST WORDING A BIT TO ACCOMODATE CLDS GOING AND COMING. OTHERWISE ... AFTER LOW CLDS SAT MRNG...SWLY FLOW ALOFT TO PREVAIL. TIME SECTIONS INDICATING SOME MID/HIGH LVL CLDS STREAMING THRU OUR RGN SAT AFTN/NITE...IN ADVANCE OF COLORADO S/W SHIFTG QUICKLY INTO THE MISSISSIPPI VLY. PC CLD FCST OUGT TO DO NICELY BOTH SAT AND SAT NITE. ONCE THOSE CLDS EXIT SAT NITE...RDDG BOTH SFC AND ALOFT SHUD HOLD SWAY SUN AND MON...WITH QUIET WX ON TAP...UNDER MSTLY CLR SKIES. MOS TEMP GUIDANCE DOES NOT LOOK BAD THIS FCST CYCLE AND HAVE NOT STRAYED VERY FAR. .SDF...NONE. STUREY
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Green River at Rochester was above flood stage from around midday on Nov. 30 until the evening of Dec. 2. Flood stage at Rochester is 17 feet. The river crested at 18.4 feet at 700 AM EST on the morning of Dec. 2, causing minor flooding.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kentucky in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, December 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: 5273907.