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 Feb 23, 1:45 PM EST, 11 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 145 PM EST SUN FEB 23 2003 CHALLENGE WITH THIS CYCLE WILL BE PINNING DOWN SNOW ACCUMULATIONS FROM SFC LOW WHICH WILL BE MOVING FROM NRN TX/OK QUICKLY NORTHEAST TO NEAR CINCINNATI OHIO BY 12Z MONDAY. SEVERAL POINTS TO CONSIDER WITH THIS CYCLE WILL BE FAST MOVEMENT OF SYSTEM THAT WILL CERTAINLY LIMIT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS. OTHER FACTORS COME INTO PLAY ALSO ...HOWEVER...WONT GO INTO DETAIL. IT IS A RELATIVELY SMALL SYSTEM...BUT...AM IMPRESSED WITH THE VERTICAL VELOCITIES. THE MAGNITUDE OF THAT PARAMETER ALONE INDICATES THAT A QUICK BURST OF ACCUMULATING SNOW MIGHT OCCUR. GFS AND ETA BASICLY SIMILAR AND WILL USE A BLEND TO ARRIVE AT THE SHORT TERM SOLUTION. HV DECIDED TO LEAVE SNOW ADVISORY INTACT THAT WAS ISSUED FOR THE EVENT EARLY ON SUNDAY MORNING. THE SNOW ADVISORY WILL AFFECT ONLY THE COUNTIES NORTH OF THE OHIO RIVER IN LOUISVILLE/S CWA. SNOW AMOUNTS WILL MOSTLY BE 1 TO 3 INCHES AND SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN PLACED WELL. OVER AREAS SOUTH OF THE OHIO RIVER...SOMEWHAT WARMER TEMPERATURES AND A MIX OF PCPN WILL LIMIT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS TO AN INCH OR LESS. OVER THE SCENTRAL PARTS LITTLE OR NO SNOWFALL ACCUMULATION IS PROJECTED. A MIXTURE OF SNOW AND RAIN MIGHT OCCUR AFTER MIDNIGHT...BUT...THE TEMPS WILL STAY ABOVE FREEZING. IN VIEW OF THE PROJECTED PATH THAT THIS LOW WILL TAKE COUNTIES OVER THE SOUTH CENTRAL WILL NOT BE IN A FAVORABLE LOCATION FOR ANY SGFNT SNOW. DIRECTING ATTENTION BACK TO THE THE NORTHERN PARTS OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA...THE HIGH ALBEDO OF THE NEWLY FALLEN SNOW FROM LAST NIGHTS STORM PASSAGE AND A MOSTLY CLOUDY SKY HELD TEMPERATURES IN CHECK WITH LITTLE DIURNAL RANGE INTO ERY AFTN. PRBLY WL HAVE TO TRIM MOS A FEW PTS FOR PROJECTED MINS TONIGHT FROM MOS GUIDANCE. IN THE LONG TERM: XPCT A CHC OF SNOW OR RAIN ABOUT MID WEEK...HOWEVER...NO MAJOR STORMS ARE XPCTD. .SDF...SNOW ADVISORY TONIGHT FOR ALL SOUTHERN INDIANA COUNTIES. CONGER
INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-241200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 315 PM EST SUN FEB 23 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. LOW PRESSURE MOVING INTO KENTUCKY TONIGHT WILL RESULT IN SNOW DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA WITH A MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL PARTS OF KENTUCKY. SNOW WILL ACCUMULATE FROM 1 TO 4 INCHES BY DAYBREAK MONDAY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA WHERE A SNOW ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT. SOUTHWARD ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY... ACCUMULATIONS SHOULD BE 1 INCH OR LESS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS AND MEDIA ARE REQUESTED TO SUBMIT SNOWFALL AMOUNTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LATE TONIGHT AND MONDAY MORNING. VLD
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Rolling Fork River at Boston crested at 35.2 feet at 4 AM EST on February 24. Flood stage at Boston is 35 feet. Minor flooding occurs at this level. Some agricultural bottomland in the area is covered.
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: 5342976.