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 31, 1:45 AM EST, 5 hours 58 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 245 AM EDT SAT JUL 31 2004 COLD FRONT IS LOCATED FROM NEAR INDIANAPOLIS SOUTHWEST TO NEAR MEMPHIS. FAIRLY WIDESPREAD BOW OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ONGOING RIGHT ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY...SOUTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST OHIO...IN MOIST AXIS AND RESPECTABLE 40 KT 850 MB JET SEEN IN VWP. COLD FRONT MAY SLOW DOWN A LITTLE THIS MORNING BUT SHOULD CONTINUE PUSHING EAST...AND CONVECTION SHOULD BE EAST OF A LOUISVILLE TO BOWLING GREEN LINE BY NOON. DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST ACROSS EAST-CENTRAL KENTUCKY NEAR THE FRONT WITH HEATING. PARTIAL CLEARING THIS AFTN OVER THE WEST WITH ENTIRE AREA CLEARING OUT FAIRLY WELL TONIGHT AS HIGH PRES BEGINS TO NOSE IN. WILL ALSO ADD PATCHY FOG TONIGHT WITH RESIDUAL NEAR-SFC LAYER MOISTURE AND LIGHT WINDS. SUNDAY INTO EARLY NEXT WORK WEEK WE SEE A FAIRLY PRONOUNCED...MID LVL RIDGING DRY PATTERN MORE TYPICAL OF LATE SUMMERTIME. LITTLE CHANGES EXPECTED TO LATER PERIODS WITH GOING FCST ALREADY INDICATING AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF LOWER 90S AND HIS AROUND 100 THROUGH MID-WEEK WITH A MODEST COOL DOWN BY LATE WEEK. SHORT TERM MOS TEMPS BLEND WORKS FINE. ...PREV EXTENDED DISCUSSION (TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY)... PATTERN REMAINS NEARLY STATIONARY FROM TUES THRU THURSDAY WITH A TROUGH EXTENDING DOWN THE APPALACHIANS AND THE EAST COAST...WITH RIDGING ACROSS THE SOUTH AND CENTRAL PLAINS NOSING INTO THE OH VALLEY. TEMPS ALOFT AT H8 ARE NEARLY 1 STD DEV HIER THAN NORMAL FOR TUES AND WED UNDER MOSTLY SUNNY TO PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES...TEMPS SLOWLY DECREASING THURS AND FRI TO NEAR NORMAL. THEREFORE TEMPS WILL BE 3-5 ABV NORMAL BOTH TUES AND WED WITH HEAT INDICES NEARING 100 BOTH DAYS...AND THURSDAY AND FRI WILL SEE SEASONAL TEMPS. CHC OF PRECIP THURS WITH A SHRTWV MOVING DOWN THE TROUGH (NW FLOW) ACROSS THE REGION. DRY AGAIN FRI INTO THE WEEKEND...WITH TRENDS SHOWING INCREASING TEMPS AGAIN FOR NEXT WEEKEND WITH A LARGE RIDGE MOVING EAST OUT OF THE PLAINS. -SCHOTT && .LMK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. KY...NONE. && JB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 507 AM EDT SAT JUL 31 2004 INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-010906- ADAIR KY-ALLEN KY-ANDERSON KY-BARREN KY-BOURBON KY-BOYLE KY- BRECKINRIDGE KY-BULLITT KY-BUTLER KY-CASEY KY-CLARK KY-CLARK IN- CLINTON KY-CRAWFORD IN-CUMBERLAND KY-DUBOIS IN-EDMONSON KY- FAYETTE KY-FLOYD IN-FRANKLIN KY-GARRARD KY-GRAYSON KY-GREEN KY- HANCOCK KY-HARDIN KY-HARRISON KY-HARRISON IN-HART KY-HENRY KY- JEFFERSON KY-JEFFERSON IN-JESSAMINE KY-LARUE KY-LINCOLN KY-LOGAN KY- MADISON KY-MARION KY-MEADE KY-MERCER KY-METCALF KY-MONROE KY- NELSON KY-NICHOLAS KY-OHIO KY-OLDHAM KY-ORANGE IN-PERRY IN- RUSSELL KY-SCOTT KY-SCOTT IN-SHELBY KY-SIMPSON KY-SPENCER KY- TAYLOR KY-TRIMBLE KY-WARREN KY-WASHINGTON KY-WASHINGTON IN- WOODFORD KY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LOUISVILLE...LEXINGTON...BOWLING GREEN... WINCHESTER...VERSAILLES...STANFORD...SHELBYVILLE...RUSSELLVILLE... RICHMOND...HARRODSBURG...HARDINSBURG...GLASGOW...FRANKLIN... FRANKFORT...ELIZABETHTOWN...DANVILLE...CYNTHIANA...COLUMBIA... BARDSTOWN...NEW ALBANY...JASPER AND CORYDON 507 AM EDT SAT JUL 31 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FOUND AROUND THE REGION TODAY BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. SUMMERTIME HEAT WILL RETURN TO THE AREA MONDAY...TUESDAY...AND WEDNESDAY WITH MANY LOCATIONS SEEING AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER 90S AND HEAT INDEX READINGS AROUND 100 DEGREES. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 803 AM EDT SAT JUL 31 2004 KYZ034>043-045>049-055>057-066-067-077-078-081-082-311400- ADAIR KY-ANDERSON KY-BOURBON KY-BOYLE KY-CASEY KY-CLARK KY- CLINTON KY-CUMBERLAND KY-FAYETTE KY-FRANKLIN KY-GARRARD KY- HARRISON KY-JESSAMINE KY-LINCOLN KY-MADISON KY-MERCER KY-NELSON KY- NICHOLAS KY-RUSSELL KY-SCOTT KY-SHELBY KY-SPENCER KY-WASHINGTON KY- WOODFORD KY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BARDSTOWN...COLUMBIA...CYNTHIANA... DANVILLE...FRANKFORT...HARRODSBURG...LEXINGTON...RICHMOND... SHELBYVILLE...STANFORD...VERSAILLES...WINCHESTER 803 AM EDT (703 AM CDT) SAT JUL 31 2004 MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE EASTERN THIRD OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS MORNING. A FEW LOCATIONS WILL SEE AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN. THIS IS ON TOP OF FROM 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN THAT HAS ALREADY FALLEN. IF DRIVING WATCH FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN HEAVY RAIN AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND UNDERPASSES. ALSO A FEW CREEKS AND STREAMS MAY BE NEAR BANK-FULL. THE RAIN WILL END BY NOON. JA
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:41 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Water covered some roads in Burkesville. Several creeks were out of their banks.
Water was across Highway 553.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kentucky in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, July 2004
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: 5417128, 5417129.