Name: Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 5 to 6, 2001
Start: 2001-06-05T19:55
End: 2001-06-06T00:30
Location: Kentucky

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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 Jun 5, 1:35 PM EST, 6 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 1:35 PM EST, 6 hours 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
235 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2001

MAIN FORECAST PROBLEM THIS AFTN CONTINUES TO BE CHANCES FOR RAIN
THROUGH THE PERIOD.

AT 18Z WARM FRONT IS JUST NORTH OF FORECAST AREA (FA) IN SOUTHERN
IN. TEMPERATURES ACROS THE FA WERE IN THE 80S WITH DWPTS AROUND 70.

AVN SEEMS TO BE THE ODD MODEL OUT LATER IN THE FORECAST PERIOD BY
SWINGING FRONT THROUGH THE FA AND DRYING THE FA OUT FASTER THAN
EITHER THEN NGM OR ETA. WILL USE AN ETA/NGM BLEND THIS FCST.

WITH INSTABILITY ACROSS THE FA...WEAK VORT ACROSS SRN FA...AND WMFNT
VCNTY NRN FA...COULD BE SCTD CONVECTION THIS EVENING. ANOTHER CHANCE
FOR RAIN OCCURS LATER TONIGHT AND IN THE MORNING AS STORMS MAY MOVE
ALONG WARM FRONT TO THE N. 850 THETAE RIDGE MOVES OVER FA BY MORNING
AS WELL. WILL GO CHC POPS ALL AREAS.

WILL CONTINUE LIKELY POPS WED AND WED NIGHT ACROSS FA. STORMS IN THE
MORNING MAY LEAVE BOUNDARIES FOR MORE AFTN CONVECTION ACROSS FA.
ALSO...FRONT TO THE NORTH BEGINS TO MOVE SOUTH AGAIN LATE IN THE
DAY.  THIS FRONT WILL MOVE INTO NRN FA BY THU MORNING. WILL GO CHC
POPS THU ALL AREAS.

TEMPS WILL DEPEND ON CLOUD COVER AND ANY TSRA. FWC LOOKS DECENT AND
SEE NO REASON TO DEVIATE TOO MUCH FROM THOSE VALUES.

.SDF...NONE.
CS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 7:36 PM EST, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
836 PM EDT TUE JUN 05 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0815 PM    ORLEANS                   IN   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/01   ORANGE                         TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

Local storm report, Jun 5, 7:55 PM EST, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
855 PM EDT TUE JUN 05 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0855 PM    CYNTHIANA                 KY   FLOOD
06/05/01   HARRISON                       COUNTY ROAD JUST
                                          OUTSIDE OF CYTHIANA WAS
                                          FLOODED. REPORTED BY
                                          EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 117 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:56 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Harrison

When: June 5, 7:55 PM EST to June 6, 12:30 AM EST
Where: Harrison County, Cynthiana
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 38.442, -84.331 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Several roads were closed by high water.

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

More

Every storm in Kentucky in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Kentucky, June 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: 5250086.