1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 29, 2:32 PM EST, 8 hours 58 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 245 PM EDT FRI AUG 29 2003 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY)... RATHER WET PERIOD IN STORE AT LEAST FOR PART OF FCST AREA TNGT THRU MONDAY OR TUESDAY. PERSISTENT SFC/UPR RIDGE OVER SERN U.S. AND ADJACENT ATL OCEAN WILL KEEP A PERSISTENT MSTR FEED ACRS LWR AND MID MS VLY AND OH VLY ON PERIPHERY OF RIDGE. THIS COUPLED WITH S/WVS IN FLOW OVR CNTRL U.S...QUASI-STNRY PRONOUNCED UPR JET STREAK OVR GRT LAKES AND NERN U.S...AND SLOW MOVG SFC FNTL BNDRY WL RESULT IN PERIODS OF SHWRS AND TSTMS TNGT THRU MONDAY OR TUESDAY. WITHIN THIS TIME FRAME...THERE WILL BE PERIODS OF HVY RAIN GIVEN PROGGED PW VALUES AT OR ABV 2 INCHES AND MORE ORGANIZED FORCING ACRS GOOD PART OF OH VLY. MAIN PROBLEM IS TRYING TO DIFFERENTIATE PLACEMENT AND TIMING OF MOST WIDESPREAD PRECIP DURING NEXT FEW DAYS. DIURNAL TSTMS THIS AFTN/EVNG OVR CNTRL KY SHOULD DIE OUT OVRNGT BUT CANT RULE OUT A FEW NOCTURNAL CELLS IN GIVEN HI MSTR CONTENT OF AIR MASS. TSTMS ALSO WL OCR THIS EVNG OVR PARTS OF SCNTRL KY. THEN MODELS PROG SFC FNT TO SAG SWD OVRGNT ALG WITH MAIN MSTR AXIS. THIS COULD SET UP MORE NUMEROUS SHWRS/TSTMS OVR PARTS OF SCNTRL IN OVRNGT AND SATURDAY MRNG WITH HVY RAINFALL PSBL. THIS IS ALSO SUPPORTED BY LO-LVL FRONTOGENETICAL FORCING WHICH SHOULD HELP SUSTAIN VERTICAL MOTION FIELDS. ON SATURDAY...FNTRL BNDRY SHOULD REMAIN NRLY STRNY OVR SCNTRL IN. THUS...ADDTNL SHWRS/TSTMS LIKELY OVR SCNTRL IN AND NCNTRL KY. BEST CHC FOR HVY RAINFALL MAY INITIALLY BE OVR SCNTRL IN EARLY SATURDAY. BUT THEN WITH DIURNAL HEATING S OF BNDRY...TSTMS WITH HVY RAIN MAY ERUPT S OF RIVER IN AFTN OVR PARTS OF NCNTRAL AND ECNTRL KY. OVR SCNTRL KY...ONLY SCT DIURNAL TSTMS EXPCTD BUT EVEN HERE ANY CELLS COULD PRODUCE HVY RAIN. FOR SATURDAY NGT...SCT TSTMS FOR ALL AREAS WITH BEST CHC AGN NEAR FNTL ZONE IN SCNTRL IN. ON SUNDAY...DIFFS OCR IN LOCATION OF SFC FNT WITH ETA KEEPING BNDRY ALG/S OF RIVER WHILE GFS LIFTS IT NWD. GIVEN UPR JET STREAK TO THE NORTH AND LTL CHG IN OVERALL PTRN...FAVOR THE ETA IN KEEPING BNDRY ARND OH RVR OR SO AND NOT LIFTING NWD. THIS WL AGN KEEP SCT TO NUMEROUS SHWRS/TSTMS OVR FCST AREA WITH MORE LOCALLY HVY RAINFALL. ALL SHORT RANGE MODELS ALSO DEPICT TROPICAL DISTURBANCE WL LIFT NWD OUT OF GULF OF MEX AND IMPACT AREA EARLY NEXT WEEK. TIMING OF THIS FEATURE TENUOUS AND WOULD NOT EXPECT MODELS TO HAVE GOOD HANDLE ON THIS SYS AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...GIVEN UPR RIDGE POSITION...THIS DISTURBANCE COULD HEAD ACRS OH OR TN VLY EVENTUALLY MAKING ADDTNL HVY RAINFALL A THREAT ROUGHLY MONDAY OR TUESDAY. .EXTENDED (MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY)... 00Z MODELS CONTINUE IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN EXTENDED PERIOD. MAIN FORECAST CONCERN IN EXTENDED WILL BE THE STALLED OUT FRONTAL BOUNDARY IN BEGINNING OF EXTENDED. MODELS KEEP THE WEST ATLANTIC RIDGE STRONG IN FIRST PART OF EXTENDED...WHICH KEEPS THE FRONT FROM MAKING TOO MUCH PROGRESS TO SOUTH. IT APPEARS THAT FRONT WILL FINALLY CLEAR AREA BY LATE TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY. NOT MUCH CHANGE IS NEEDED IN EXTENDED PERIOD FCST...WILL CONTINUE TO RUN CHANCE OF PRECIP THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...THEN DRYING OUT THEREAFTER. TEMPS IN EXTENDED WILL BE NEAR NORMAL. .LMK...NONE. FUNK/JARVIS
INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-301015- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 400 PM EDT FRI AUG 29 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR THIS EVENING OVER CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA WITH THE BEST CHANCE JUST NORTH OF THE OHIO RIVER. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE ALTHOUGH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORM. OVERNIGHT...MORE NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP OR MOVE INTO SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. IF STORMS REMAIN OVER THE SAME LOCATION FOR A PERIOD OF TIME...THEN LOCAL FLOOD PROBLEMS COULD DEVELOP. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH AND BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY ALONG OR NEAR THE OHIO RIVER SATURDAY AND REMAIN THERE INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. THIS FRONT COMBINED WITH SEVERAL WEATHER DISTURBANCES ALOFT AND A HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT IN THE ATMOSPHERE WILL RESULT IN PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TUESDAY. WHILE THE THREAT FOR ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER APPEARS LOW DURING THIS PERIOD...THE THREAT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE HIGHER. IN FACT...DEPENDING ON THE MOVEMENT AND FREQUENCY OF THUNDERSTORMS...AN INCREASING FLOOD THREAT MAY DEVELOP OVER THE WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK. AT THIS TIME...SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND THOSE LOCATIONS ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 64 IN KENTUCKY STAND THE HIGHEST CHANCE FOR HEAVY RAINFALL. HOWEVER...ANY THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL KENTUCKY COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AS WELL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL IN ANY SIGNIFICANT STORM REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INCLUDING HEAVY RAINFALL...ANY FLOODING...AND GUSTY WINDS THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. FUNK
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 89 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:31 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A car was washed into a stream adjacent to Hillsboro Road two miles northwest of New Castle. Two to three feet of water covered the road. Other roads were flooded and impassable near Pendleton.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kentucky in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, August 2003
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: 5377098.