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 Sep 4, 3:24 AM EST, 46 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 230 AM EDT THU SEP 4 2003...CORRECTED WORDING... LAST OF THE SHOWERS EXITING CWA INTO SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY. SHOWERS FORMED ALONG WIND CONVERGENCE JUST AHEAD OF THE SURFACE TROUGH...WHICH AT 2 AM...STRETCHED FROM JUST EAST OF BOWLING GREEN TO OHIO BORDER EAST OF COVINGTON. THIS TROUGH WILL BE SLOW TO MOVE EAST AND POSSIBLY SOME STRAY SHOWERS MAY CONTINUE EARLY THIS MORNING ACROSS MY EXTREME SOUTHEAST COUNTIES. WILL TWEAK PRECIP WORDING AT ZONE ISSUANCE TIME. SOME FOG HAD DEVELOPED JUST BEHIND THIS TROUGH AROUND LEXINGTON...BUT WEAK COLD AIR ADVECTION AND LOW STRATUS WILL KEEP FOG FROM BECOMING DENSE. WILL MENTION EARLY MORNING PATCHY FOG FOR AT LEAST MY EASTERN ZONES THIS MORNING. A SECOND MORE VIGOROUS FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE OHIO RIVER LATER TODAY...WITH MUCH DRIER AIR ADVECTING FROM THE NORTHERN PLAINS. MOISTURE AND PERHAPS SOME LOW STRATUS WILL REMAIN OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN KENTUCKY THIS MORNING BUT EXPECT CLEARING FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON. WITH CLEAR SKIES AND LOWER DEWPOINTS...NEXT SEVERAL DAYS WILL BRING US A HINT OF EARLY FALL. SPRAWLING HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE OVER THE GREAT LAKES FRIDAY. AIR COLUMN OVER OHIO VALLEY REALLY DRIES OUT AS FORECASTED PW/S LOWER TO ONLY AROUND HALF INCH OR SO BY SATURDAY. FOR DAYS 4 THROUGH 7...A DRY PERIOD...AS AN UPPER AIR TROUGH ACROSS NEW ENGLAND LIFTS AND IS REPLACED BY A FLAT RIDGE. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL EXTEND FROM NEW ENGLAND SOUTHWEST TO TEXAS. GULF MOISTURE WILL REMAIN SUPPRESSED ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST CONUS. .LMK...NONE. JSD
INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-041100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 345 PM EDT WED SEP 3 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH-CENTRAL KENTUCKY. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY SHOULD REMAIN SOUTH OF THE WESTERN KENTUCKY PARKWAY. LOCALIZED FLOODING PROBLEMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...AS SOME NARROW BANDS OF SHOWERS MAY REPEAT OVER THE SAME AREA. PONDING WATER ON ROADS AND UNDERPASSES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THE RAIN IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH AND END AFTER DARK THIS EVENING. PATCHY DENSE FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY IF CLOUDS PART AND ALLOW THE TEMPERATURE TO FALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. JB
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 38.8 feet at 5 AM EST on September 5. Flood stage at Boston is 35 feet. At the crest level, agricultural bottomland is flooded.
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, September 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: 5337701.