4 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 13, 9:15 AM EST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1015 AM EDT SUN JUN 13 2004 ...MORNING UPDATE... LAPSE RATES NOT QUITE AS STEEP THIS MORNING OVER THE LMK FA COMPARED TO YESTERDAY AT THIS TIME, ALSO ECHOED IN SFC LI FIELDS. THIS LIKELY DUE TO CONVECTION SAT AFT-EVE. A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED TSRA MOVING ALONG OH RIVER ATTM. THINKING THAT ADDITIONAL TSRA WILL DEVELOP INTO AFTERNOON HOURS, ASSOC WITH RELATIVE MAX IN PW FIELDS SEEN IN RUC DATA COUPLED WITH SUBTLE SFC TROF IN THE VICINITY. HARD TO PIN DOWN POTENTIAL SVR THREAT STUFF SEEMS DISORGANIZED NOW. FRZ LVLS ARE SLIGHTLY LOWER THAN YESTERDAY (13.3 KFT), SO WITHIN POCKETS OF DEVELOPING INSTABILITY, PULSE TYPE SVR COULD YIELD SOME HAIL/WIND. YESTERDAYS SVR STORMS APPEARED ASSOC WITH RAPID INTERACTIONS BTWN CELLS AND SWD MVG OUTFLOW BDY FROM IND/ILL. BUT NONE OF THESE APPARENT IN THE FA ON VIS SATELLITE ATTM. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT BDY MOVING SWD ACROSS WRN KY/ARKANSAS FROM OVERNIGHT MCS IN MO/KS. HVY RAIN AND AT LEAST MINOR FLOODING STILL SEEMS PROBABLE FROM STRONGER STORMS, AND FLOOD GUIDANCE VALUES ARE CONSIDERABLY LOWER DUE TO YESTERDAYS RAINS. XXV && .LMK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. KY...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1020 AM EDT SUN JUN 13 2004 INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-140835- 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 1020 AM EDT SUN JUN 13 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AGAIN OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA. THESE STORMS ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE LOCALLY TORRENTIAL RAINFALL, AND GIVEN YESTERDAYS RAINS, COULD LEAD TO SOME FLOODING AND PONDING WATER ON ROADWAYS. ALSO, SHOULD ENOUGH INSTABILITY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON, ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE. THE MAIN THREATS WOULD BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. REMEMBER, THAT SINCE THE SOIL IS QUITE WET IN MANY LOCATIONS, WEAKLY ROOTED TREES COULD TOPPLE EVEN IN WINDS OF ONLY 30 OR 40 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. WITH WARM...HUMID AND UNSTABLE AIR IN PLACE OVER KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA MUCH OF THE COMING WEEK...SCATTERED STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SEVERAL TIMES...WITH SOME QUITE STRONG. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE. XXV
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 98 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:19 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was uprooted and fell on to a car on U.S. Highway 31W.
Trees were downed.
Trees were downed and blocking highway 421.
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, June 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: 5406882, 5406801, 5406802, 5406803.