1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Mar 5, 3:20 PM EST, 8 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 320 PM EST FRI MAR 5 2004 HAVE ISSUED FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL OF SOUTH AND EAST/CENTRAL KENTUCKY FOR TONIGHT. SKIES CLOUDING UP ACROSS THE CWA ONCE AGAIN. HEAVY RAINFALL THE BIGGEST THREAT FOR TONIGHT AS GOOD HVY RAIN SCENARIO SETS UP. STILL SOME QUIBBLE AGAINST LATITUDINAL EXTENT OF HVY RN BAND...ETA HAS SW TO NE ORIENTED QPF SWATH VERSUS AN EARLIER SIGNIFICANTLY FURTHER SE EXTENT. MEANWHILE GFS CONTINUES WITH A MORE WSW TO ENE ORIENTED BAND (MORE HORIZONTAL) CONSISTENT W PREV GFS FCSTS. HAVE FOLLOWED THE LEAD OF HPC AND GOING MORE W AN ETA FCST HERE. THIS SEEMS THE WAY TO GO AS FAST MOVING SWATH OF PRECIP IS TRACKING JUST SOUTH OF OH RIVER. BELIEVE HVY RA THREAT MAINLY ACROSS SOUTH AND EAST CTRL KY...AS AXIS OF MOISTURE AND FORCING INDUCED FROM CYCLONICALLY CURVED JET WILL SHIFT SOUTHEAST BEFORE 0Z. QUITE LIMITED INSTABILITY...CLOUDS LIMITED SUNSHINE TODAY...COMBINED WITH NEARLY PARALLEL 850/500 FLOW SHOULD GREATLY LIMIT SVR THREAT. GREATEST THREAT STILL LOOKS TO BE ACROSS S CTRL KY WHERE A BIT BETTER INSTABILITY NOSES IN IN CONJUNCTION W PREFRONTAL AREA AND A CONFLUENT 850 FLOW ACROSS S CTRL KY...HEIGHTENED AROUND 03Z TNGT. CLOUDS AND ISLTD SHWRS FOR MUCH OF A.M. SAT AS MAIN H5 TROUGH RIPS THROUGH COMBINED WITH SATURATED LLVLS. PARTIAL CLEARING SAT NGT WITH SOME SLIGHT MODERATION IN TEMPS SUN. LATE ON SUN THROUGH MONDAY...A WEAK CANADIAN ORIGIN COLD FRONT DROPS THROUGH IN ASSOC WITH VORT MAX AND A DEVELOPING ROBUST NNW 850 WIND FLOW. WITH THIS PLAN TO RUN A 20-30 POP SETUP. THIS PRECIP SHOULD END AS A MIX OF RA/SN SHWR...GIVEN 30 TO 40 KT NNW 850 WINDS BRINGING IN 850 TEMPS -6 TO -9 OR SO. YET PRECIP QUITE LIGHT DUE TO SFC INFECTION MOST LIKELY WELL NORTH OF THE OH VLY. NO PRECIP PLANNED FOR DAYTIME MONDAY. HAVE POPULATED AND ONLY TWEAKED GRIDDED MAX/MIN TEMPS WITH CONSISTENT GFS MOS TEMPS. .EXTENDED (TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY)... SERIES OF FAST MOVING SHORTWAVES WILL DROP THROUGH THE GREAT LAKES REGION DURING THE PERIOD. BASED ON FORECAST UPPER JET POSITION...LOOKS LIKE BEST DYNAMICAL FORCING WILL REMAIN NORTH AND EAST OF FCST AREA. NEVERTHELESS WILL CONTINUE MENTION CHC OF RAIN/SNOW SHWRS LATE MON NGT/TUES MRNG WITH ANOTHER CHC OF RAIN SHWRS THURS. OVERALL PTRN SUGGESTS TEMPS WL BE BELOW NORMAL EARLY IN EXTENDED PERIOD...THEN AROUND NORMAL LATE WEEK. && .LMK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. KY...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 6 AM SAT FOR S AND E CTRL KY. && JB/TWF
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1030 PM EST FRI MAR 5 2004 INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-061000- 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 1030 PM EST FRI MAR 5 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...OVERNIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH OVERNIGHT ACROSS EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES...WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM LEXINGTON TO BOWLING GREEN. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 1 ADDITIONAL INCH ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THIS AREA. TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 2 TO 3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. THIS COULD RESULT IN FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS... AND LOW LYING AREAS. FOR THIS REASON A FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE AREA THROUGH 6:00 AM SATURDAY. THE WATCH IS BASICALLY FROM BOWLING GREEN TO FRANKFORT AND EAST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. SPOTTERS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR AND REPORT DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ASSOCIATED WITH THUNDERSTORMS. JSD
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:08 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Three county roads were closed in the area due to high water.
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, March 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: 5387702.