1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Feb 22, 6:00 PM EST, 2 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 600 PM EST SAT FEB 22 2003 GETTING REPORTS OF +SN OVER DUBOIS CO ATTM, WITH ABOUT 1/2 ACCUMS SO FAR AND A FEW ACCIDENTS. ORANGE CO, HWVR, IS STILL IN RA BUT CHANGING OVER. FOR THE TIME BEING WILL LEAVE CURRENT FCST INTACT, BUT WILL HAVE TO MONITOR ETA/RUC FCSTS OF MORE SN TWDS MIDNIGHT ACROSS SRN IND AND NRN KY, SUCH AS THE 18Z ETA SUGGESTING DECENT SN AT KMDN CENTERED AROUND 6Z/SUN. SHOULD THIS MATERIALIZE, A LOW-END SN ADV MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS SRN IND. WILL KEEP WATCH ON THIS. NEVER SEEING THE WARM SECTOR TODAY, SRN INDS ROAD TEMPERATURES WILL SOON BE CONDUCIVE TO SN ACCUMS. ALSO REFREEZING MAY BE AN ISSUE. .SDF...NONE. XXV ///PREV AFD/// MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL CAME TO CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS MORNING AND INTO THE AFTN AS A RATHER WELL DEVELOPED AREA OF LOW PRESSURE MOVED FROM MIDDLE TENNESSEE NORTHEAST INTO KENTUCKY. FURTHER, NORTHEAST MOVEMENT IS XPCTD EARLY TONIGHT WITH CONTINUED PROPAGATION TO THE NORTHEAST XPCTD OVERNIGHT. THE CENTER OF LOW PRESSURE IS EXPECTED TO BE LOCATED OVER NEW YORK STATE BY 12Z SUNDAY. AS A RESULT...COLDER AIR WILL SPREAD OVER CENTRAL KENTUCKY. WHILE MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS GENERATED OVER CENTRAL KENTUCKY ON SATURDAY...AMOUNTS WERE NOT SUFFICIENT TO CAUSE ANY FLOODING. AVERAGE AMOUNTS FOR THIS RAINFALL EVENT WERE MOSTLY FROM 1 TO 1.5 INCHES. A SIGN OF SPRING WAS FELT OVER SOME PARTS OF THE REGION WITH SPOTTY TSTMS REPORTED. TEMPERATURES AT 18Z REGISTERED MOSTLY IN THE 40S AND 50S. THE MERCURY EVEN SOARED INTO THE LOWER 60S AT 18Z OVER A FEW COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH CENTRAL PORTION OF THE STATE. WILL LOOK FOR SOME SNOW MIXING IN EARLY EVNG NORTH OF THE OH RIVER, AS COLDER AIR WORKS INTO THE REGION...THEN LATER IN THE EVNG FOR THE SRN AREAS OF THE STATE. SNOW ACCUM WISE, EXPECT AROUND 1 NORTH OF THE RIVER, LESS THAN 1 N AND E CTRL KY, AND LITTLE OR NO ACCUM S CTRL KY. GFS SEEMS TO BE THE SUPERIOR MODEL TO FOLLOW ALTHO ETA IN AGREEMENT. GFS MOS MNLY USED TO FORMULATE SHORT TERM. SOME SNOW PSBL SUNDAY NIGHT...BUT...BEST CHC OF ACCUMULATING SNOW WILL BE OVER A THE NORTHERNMOST CWA OR A FEW COUNTIES OF SCENTRAL IN AS A QUICK MOVING AND WEAKENING AREA OF LOW PRESSURE MOVES FROM SRN OK NE TO NEAR CINCINNATI BY 8AM EST MONDAY MORNING. .SDF...NONE. CONGER
INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-231100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 640 PM EST SAT FEB 22 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. AS SURFACE LOW PRESSURE PASSES THROUGH THE REGION, RAIN WILL CHANGE TO SNOW THIS EVENING WITH UP TO 1 INCH OR SO OF ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT, MAINLY OVER SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA, NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY, AND THE BLUEGRASS REGION. BEHIND THE COLD FRONT, NORTHWESTERLY WINDS MAY GUST UP TO 30 OR 35 MPH AT TIMES. THIS WILL CAUSE TRICKY TRAVEL CONDITIONS FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES, ESPECIALLY ON EAST TO WEST RUNNING HIGHWAYS. ALSO WIND CHILLS AFTER MIDNIGHT MAY DROP INTO THE SINGLE DIGITS, THEREFORE DRESS WARMLY IF YOU ARE GOING OUTDOORS TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. ANOTHER FAST MOVING SYSTEM WILL LIKELY BRING SOME SNOW SUNDAY NIGHT ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE OUTLOOK AREA AND RAIN OR SNOW OVER THE SOUTH. ACCUMULATING SNOW WOULD MAINLY BE CONFINED TO SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA, AND THOSE NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY COUNTIES ADJACENT TO THE OHIO RIVER. AT THIS POINT, FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES OF SNOW IS LIKELY, HOWEVER THERE IS POTENTIAL FOR HIGHER AMOUNTS, MAINLY OVER SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO, LOCAL MEDIA, AND WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND FORECASTS REGARDING THE SNOW POTENTIAL ON SUNDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. SMALLCOMB
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Rough River at Dundee crested around 26.2 feet at 130 PM EST on February 23. Flood stage at Dundee is 25 feet. Minor flooding occurs at this level. A section of Kentucky Highway 69 about half a mile long near the bridge begins to flood on the right bank.
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, February 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: 5343100.