Flash Flooding in Kentucky, July 28, 2001

Name: Flash Flooding in Kentucky, July 28, 2001
Start: 2001-07-28T16:45
End: 2001-07-28T20:40
Location: Kentucky

July 28, 2001 · NWS LMK · 5 events in 3 counties and zones

5 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 5 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $15,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 5

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.

What forecasters said that day

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 Jul 28, 12:00 PM EST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 12:00 PM EST, 4 hours 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
100 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2001

WE WILL ISSUE FFA FOR ENTIRE FA TNGT. WIL MAKE THIS BRIEF...MAY NEED
FFW IN THE NEAR TERM OVER PARTS OF CURRENT FFA.

PCPT WATER IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES HAS OVERSPRD FA IN WAKE OF WARM FNT
FROM CVG TO JKL. WITH HEATING/INCRSG CAPES AND APPROACH OF UPR LVL
IMPLSE...SHWRS AND STORMS HAVE BLOSSOMED ATTM...MOST IN A 2000 J/KG
CAPE AXIS FROM SWRN FA TO NEAR SDF.

DIURNAL ACTIVITY SHUD DIMINISH A BIT TNGT BEFORE UPR MSP VLY SHRT WV
REACHES LWR OH VLY AND INCREASES ACTIVTY AGAIN. INCRSG LLJ/WAA IN
ADVANCE OF SFC LO COMBINED WITH FAVORABLE MID/HI LVL DYNAMICS
(DIVERGENCE) ON SRN EDGE OF WLYS SHUD PRODUCE AREAS OF EXCESSIVE
RAINFALL(PRIMARILY OVER NRN/ERN FA).

CORRIDOR OF DEEP MOIST TO SLOLY SLIP THRU RGN ON SUNDAY. WILL CONT
TO MENTION HIGHEST POPS EAST AND SOUTH.

HAVE STAYED CLOSE TO GUIDE TEMPS THIS FCST CYCLE WITH CLDS AND PCPN
DOMINANT.

COORDNTD WITH PAH...IND...RFC.  JKL AND ILN FFA IN AFFECT TO OUR NE
AND E.

.SDF...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT ALL OF CENTRAL KY AND SOUTH CENTRAL
       INDIANA.

KIRKPATRICK

The radar

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Event by event

5 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Bourbon

When: July 28, 4:45 PM EST to 6:30 PM EST
Where: Bourbon County, 1 mi N of Paris
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 38.207, -84.217 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Two feet of water covered a roadway.

Flash Flood, Madison

When: July 28, 5:40 PM EST to 6:30 PM EST
Where: Madison County, 2 mi SW of Richmond
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 37.720, -84.278 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

One car was stalled in a foot of water on Highway 52.

Flash Flood, Scott

When: July 28, 5:45 PM EST to 8:20 PM EST
Where: Scott County, Georgetown
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.292, -84.584 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Several roads were closed near Georgetown. A rock wall washed onto Lloyd Pike Road west of Georgetown.

Flash Flood, Bourbon

When: July 28, 5:45 PM EST to 8:40 PM EST
Where: Bourbon County, 2 mi NW of Paris
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.207, -84.217 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

One road was closed just west of Highway 27. A couple of roads were closed in Paris.

Flash Flood, Madison

When: July 28, 6:00 PM EST to 7:00 PM EST
Where: Madison County, Waco
Property damage: $15,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 37.720, -84.278 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

One road was closed and several homes had water in basements.

What these are

Flash Flood: Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Kentucky in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Kentucky, July 2001

Sources

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: 5258105, 5258106, 5258107, 5258108, 5258109.