2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Jul 6, 1:50 PM EST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 250 PM EDT SUN JUL 6 2003 .SHORT RANGE... THROUGH WEDNESDAY WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS S/W AXIS FM ARKANSAS NEWD UP THE OHIO RIVER AT MID AFTN...WITH PLUME OF HIGH LVL MOISTURE ENCOMPASSING OUR FORECAST AREA (FA). S/W AXIS WILL PIVOT EWD TNGT AND THRU E FA AREAS LATE TNGT. WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES FM 1.75-2.00 INCHES...AND S/W INTERACTING WITH UNSTABLE AIRMASS..WE WILL KEEP HVY RAIN MENTIONED THIS EVNG WITH SCT SHWRS/TSTMS. LATER TNGT DO THINK OUR WRN AREAS WILL HAVE A PAUSE ALTHOUGH LATE NITE TROPICAL LIKE SHWRS AGAIN PSBL FAR SOUTH AND EAST HAVE. MEANWHILE SEVERAL CLUSTERS OF TSTMS GATHERING TO OUR NORTH AND PROBABLY WILL JELL INTO A CONVECTIVE COMPLEX TNGT. THICKNESS PTN SUGGESTS THAT IS SHUD STAY TO OUR NORTH. WILL LIKELY HAVE AN OUTFLOW BNDRY SENT DOWN INTO PARTS OF OUR NRN FA ON MONDAY...WHILE UPSTREAM S/W IN THE WRN GREAT LAKES HEADS RPDLY SEWD INTO THE OHIO VLY. CUD BE A CONVECTIVE SYS DVLP WITH THIS S/W...WHICH WOULD CLIP PARTS OF OUR FA MONDAY. INTENSIFYING WIND FIELDS AT H5 SUGGESTS WIND DAMAGE POTENTIAL WILL BE ON THE INCREASE ESPECIALLY ERN 1/2 OF FA. A BIT OF RIDGING ALOFT BUILDS INTO ALL OF OUR FA MONDAY NITE... AND WILL KEEP FCST DRY. MORE ENERGY SWINGS INTO THE OHIO VLY...ON THE SRN EDGE OF THE WLYS ON TUE...WITH SCT SHWRS/TSTMS ON TAP. TUE NITE AND WEDNESDAY WILL OFFER MORE TSTM CHANCES AS FRONTAL BNDRY SAGS SOUTH AND INTERACTS WITH UNSTABLE AIRMASS AND SEEMINGLY ENDLESS S/WS IN FLOW. .EXTENDED THOUGHTS... SHORT WAVE THAT DELAYS COLD FRONT A DAY FROM PREVIOUS RUNS...FROM THURSDAY TO FRIDAY...A GOOD BET TO PRODUCE A ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH COLD FRONT OF ITS OWN. WITH PASSAGE OF THIS SYSTEM...EXPECT BRIEF COOLER AND LESS HUMID AIR...BUT WITH RISING HEIGHTS DURING THE WEEKEND...SEE HOTTEST WEATHER OF THE SUMMER SO FAR...AND LITTLE OR NO RAIN. .LMK...NONE. STUREY/NR
INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-071100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 240 PM EDT SUN JUL 6 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF THE OUTLOOK AREA INTO TONIGHT. THE OVERALL ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS MINIMAL...HOWEVER A VERY MOIST ENVIRONMENT WILL BE CONDUCIVE FOR INTENSE RAINFALL FROM ANY STORMS THAT FORM. AS ALWAYS, DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS POSSIBLE FROM THUNDERSTORMS. MEANWHILE...HEAT INDICES MAY APPROACH THE CENTURY MARK AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND POINTS IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY NEAR THE OHIO RIVER. REMEMBER TO DRINK PLENTY OF WATER AND WEAR APPROPRIATE CLOTHING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EAST KENTUCKY WILL EXPERIENCE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE DAY MONDAY, AS CLUSTERS OF STORMS DEVELOPING AHEAD OF AN EASTWARD MOVING COLD FRONT MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO THE NORTHEAST HALF OF THE COMMONWEALTH. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS, FOR WHICH THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS EAST OF A LOUISVILLE TO LONDON LINE MONDAY. IN ADDITION, HEAT INDICES ARE FORECAST TO NEAR 100 MONDAY AND TUESDAY AFTERNOONS, PARTICULARLY ALONG AND WEST OF I-65. PEOPLE WITH OUTDOOR PLANS DURING THESE PERIODS SHOULD PLAN TO WEAR APPROPRIATE CLOTHING AND DRINK PLENTY OF WATER. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TUESDAY THROUGH THE EARLY PARTS OF THURSDAY. HOWEVER, FOR TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY, THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG OR SEVERE STORMS IS UNCERTAIN AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH SUNDAY. REITMEYER
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Water covered the roadway at the intersection of highways 622 and 585.
Two feet of water covered the roadway at the intersection of highways 79 and 54.
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, July 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: 5370662, 5370663.