Name: Flash Flood and Hail in Kentucky, July 2, 2002
Start: 2002-07-02T15:00
End: 2002-07-02T17:30
Location: Kentucky

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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 2, 1:45 PM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 1:45 PM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
245 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002

WV LOOP SHOWS DRIER AIR ACROSS SRN IL AND SW IN. LOW PRES TROF
ACROSS TX/OK BECOMING A BIT MORE AMPLIFIED ATTM. UPPER RIDGE WILL
BECOME A BIT MORE AMPLIFIED ALSO OVER THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS. AXIS OF
DRIER AIR IS SHIFTING WITH THE SHARPENING OF THE SRN TROF, SO THAT
TRAJECTORY BRINGS DRIER AIR INTO SRN IN/WRN KY TODAY. MEANWHILE,
SCATTERED CLOUDS FROM EARLIER CONVECTION HAVE DIMINISHED ACROSS OHIO
AND WRN WV EARLY THIS MORNING. MODELS STILL PROG VORT TO WRAP AROUND
UPPER HIGH AND SPILL INTO MIDDLE APPALACHIA REGION INCLUDING ERN KY
THIS AFTN AND EVE.

HIGH TEMPS ON MON WERE MOSTLY IN THE LOWER 90S WITH MID 90S IN METRO
LOU AND WRN KY. WILL FCST SIMILAR TEMPS TODAY, SINCE MODEL SOUNDINGS
SHOW LITTLE CHANGE IN LOW LEVEL TEMPS, AND MOST MOS TEMP GUIDANCE
AGREES. HIGHS FROM 92 TO 96 COMBINED WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE LOWER 70S
WILL CREATE HEAT INDICES FROM 100 TO 105. WILL ISSUE SPS TO HIT ON
THE MARGINALLY DANGEROUS INDICES.

IN TERMS OF PRECIP TODAY, WILL GO WITH 20 POPS FOR THE WEST AND 30
POPS FOR THE EAST, GIVEN LOCATION OF DRIER AIR TO THE NORTHWEST AND
VORT TO THE EAST, FOR THIS AFTN. WILL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES TO WED
FCST.

FOR THE 4TH OF JUL, WITH PROXIMITY TO WEAK FRONT, AND ABUNDANT LOW
LEVEL MOISTURE, WILL NEED TO ADD CHANCE PRECIP ACROSS THE FA. NO
OTHER SIGNIFICANT CHANGES EXPECTED TO THE EXTDD FCST.

.SDF...NONE.

JB

The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Logan

When: July 2, 3:00 PM EST
Where: Logan County, 5 mi SW of Olmstead
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
Coordinates: 36.700, -87.083

Trees and power lines were downed.

Hail, Clark

When: July 2, 4:15 PM EST
Where: Clark County, Winchester
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: BROADCAST MEDIA
Coordinates: 37.983, -84.183

Flash Flood, Clark

When: July 2, 4:30 PM EST to 5:30 PM EST
Where: Clark County, Winchester
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 37.971, -84.147 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Water covered part of the Highway 1927 Bypass.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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.

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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: 5303812, 5303813, 5303814.