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, 2:05 AM EST, 10 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 205 AM EST FRI NOV 30 2001 S/W ENERGY FINALLY MOVING NORTHEAST OF KENTUCKY WITH SFC LOW OVR ERN IL. CDFNT IN PROGRESS MOVING EWD THRU COMMONWEALTH AT 0545Z AND ONLY SCATTERED LINGERING LGT SHOWERS DOTTING THE AREA. WL MENTION SOME LEFT OVER SHWRS THIS MORNING OCCURRING MNLY OVR NRN PTN OF FA AS UPR SYS CONTS TO MOVE NE. FFA CANCELLED JUST B4 MIDNIGHT. CLDS XPCTD BE THE RULE THRU MOST OF THE DAY WITH CONDITIONS BECOMING MNLY CLR TNGT. MODELS BASICLY IN AGREEMENT AND WILL BLEND SLGT DISCREPANCIES. NO BELOW FREEZING TEMPS SLATED FOR THE FA THRU LONG TERM. .SDF...NONE. CONGER
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 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, November 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: 5272393.