Flood, Gibson
- When
- June 18, 1:00 PM CST to June 25, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Gibson forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 38.312, -87.585 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flooding in Indiana, June 18 to 25, 2004
Minor flooding of the White River occurred. 2 feet on June 23.
Where it happened
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.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS PAH wrote it up.
Minor flooding of the White River occurred. At both Petersburg and Hazleton, where flood stage is 16 feet, the river crested at 18.2 feet on June 23. This resulted in flooding of low-lying fields and bottomlands. A few local county roads were closed.
What forecasters said that day
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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 18, 1:35 AM CST, 11 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 1:35 AM CST, 11 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 235 AM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004 .DISCUSSION... SATELLITE SHOWS SCT CLOUDS ACROSS THE FA. AND SINCE MIDNIGHT...A FEW SHOWERS HAVE REDEVELOPED OVER THE PENNYRILE REGION OF WEST KY. LAPS SHOWS VERY WEAK CONVERGENCE IN THIS AREA...WHILE THE RUC DEPICTS WEAK UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT MOVG THROUGH. DO NOT PLAN ON HAVING ANYTHING IN THE GRIDS COME PRESS TIME WITH REGARD TO THIS. OUR FOCUS WILL BE ON MCS CURRENTLY OVER EAST CENTRAL KANSAS INTO CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. MODELS ARE ALREADY BEHIND THE 8 BALL WITH THIS COMPLEX (TOO SLOW). ORIGINALLY PLANNED ON HOLDING OFF POPS TIL VERY LATE WEST. BUT AFTER LOOKING AT CURRENT SAT AND RADAR TRENDS...AGREE WITH SPC THAT CONVECTION SHOULD BE FURTHER EAST...FASTER THAN MODELS INDICATE. AND STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AS THEY ENCOUNTER AN INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE...FORECAST TO UNFOLD ACROSS WEST PARTS OF THE FA BY 18Z. WILL CONTINUE WITH POPS TONIGHT. POP DEPICTION WILL LARGELY BE DEPENDENT UPON OVERALL STRENGTH OF CONVECTIVE SYSTEM...AND WHAT FORM IT ENDS UP TAKING ON BOTH COVERAGE AND MOVEMENT WISE. BUT CHANCES SHOULD TAPER OFF FROM WEST TO EAST TONIGHT. ON SATURDAY...AGREE WITH PREVIOUS SHIFT THAT A CHANCE OF CONVECTION SHOULD LINGER ACROSS THE SOUTH EVEN BEHIND THE FRONT. ETA SHOWS SFC LIS BELOW 0 OVER WEST KY...WITH LOW LEVEL MSTR STILL IN PLACE (H8 DWPTS OVER 12 DEG C) AT 18Z. LOW TROP DRYING GETS GOING BY AROUND 00Z AS MOIST AXIS SHIFTS SOUTH OF THE FA. SO EXPECT A DRY NIGHT SATURDAY...AND DAY SUNDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE IN CONTROL. THIS WILL ALSO RESULT IN SLIGHTLY LOWER TEMPERATURES AND HUMIDITY. BREAK IN THE ACTION TO BE SHORT LIVED...AS BOTH THE ETA AND GFS SHOW STRONG WAA DEVELOPING OVER THE PLAINS SUNDAY...SHIFTING EAST INTO MISSOURI SUNDAY NIGHT. BOTH MODELS BRING STRONG VERTICAL MOTION FIELD INTO MISSOURI SUNDAY NIGHT...AND MOVE IT ESE INTO THE FA MONDAY. THUS THE CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR SUNDAY NIGHT NORTH AND WEST...AND ALL AREAS MONDAY. AFTER MONDAY...FEW IF ANY CHANGES MADE TO THE EXISTING FORECAST. THROUGH THE WEEK...THE LATEST GFS LONG RANGE SHOWS STRONG VORTEX SETTING UP OVER SOUTH CENTRAL CANADA. THIS WILL KEEP THE FLOW PATTERN W TO E AND SOMEWHAT ACTIVE. THUS HARD TO RULE OUT CHANCES OF CONVECTION AT ANYTIME. MODELS USUALLY HAVE A HARD TIME PICKING OUT FINE SCALE DETAILS...AND WILL USUALLY FLOP AROUND FROM ONE DAY TO THE NEXT...AS FAR AS WHEN THERE WILL AND WILL NOT BE PRECIPITATION. SO THERE IS NO REAL JUSTIFICATION IN ADJUSTING POPS ALL THAT MUCH IF AT ALL. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 3:23 AM CST, 9 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 423 AM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-191000- ALEXANDER IL-BALLARD KY-BOLLINGER MO-BUTLER MO-CALDWELL KY- CALLOWAY KY-CAPE GIRARDEAU MO-CARLISLE KY-CARTER MO-CHRISTIAN KY- CRITTENDEN KY-DAVIESS KY-EDWARDS IL-FRANKLIN IL-FULTON KY- GALLATIN IL-GIBSON IN-GRAVES KY-HAMILTON IL-HARDIN IL-HENDERSON KY- HICKMAN KY-HOPKINS KY-JACKSON IL-JEFFERSON IL-JOHNSON IL- LIVINGSTON KY-LYON KY-MARSHALL KY-MASSAC IL-MCCRACKEN KY-MCLEAN KY- MISSISSIPPI MO-MUHLENBERG KY-NEW MADRID MO-PERRY MO-PERRY IL-PIKE IN- POPE IL-POSEY IN-PULASKI IL-RIPLEY MO-SALINE IL-SCOTT MO-SPENCER IN- STODDARD MO-TODD KY-TRIGG KY-UNION KY-UNION IL-VANDERBURGH IN- WABASH IL-WARRICK IN-WAYNE MO-WAYNE IL-WEBSTER KY-WHITE IL- WILLIAMSON IL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SIKESTON...POPLAR BLUFF...PERRYVILLE... CAPE GIRARDEAU...PADUCAH...OWENSBORO...MURRAY...MAYFIELD... MADISONVILLE...HOPKINSVILLE...HENDERSON...EVANSVILLE...HERRIN... HARRISBURG...CARMI...CARBONDALE AND CAIRO 423 AM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY...EXCEPT FOR SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flood, Pike
- When
- June 18, 1:00 PM CST to June 25, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Pike forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 38.399, -87.232 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strikes in Georgia, June 18, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 18, 2004
- Lightning Strike in Texas, June 18, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 18, 2004
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, June 18 to 19, 2004
- Flash Flood and High Wind in Utah, June 18, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, June 18 to 19, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Washington, June 18, 2004
- Hail in Colorado, June 18 to 19, 2004
- Lightning Strike in Arkansas, June 18, 2004
- Hail in Colorado, June 18, 2004
- Tornado and Hail in Colorado, June 18, 2004
More
Every storm in Indiana in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, June 2004
Sources
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: 5408593, 5408594.