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 Mar 6, 2:30 AM EST, 8 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 230 AM EST SAT MAR 6 2004 ...WILL CANCEL FLOOD WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY AT 4:30 AM.... IN THE SHORT TERM... STEADY RAIN WILL MOVE EAST OF CWA DURING THE MORNING HOURS AS PLUME OF MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH SOUTHWEST FLOW TRANSLATES EAST AHEAD OF LOW AMPLITUDE UPPER AIR TROUGH. THIS TROUGH WILL QUICKLY MOVE EAST ACROSS LOWER OHIO VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON. WILL CANCEL FLOOD WATCH FOR EASTERN THIRD OF CWA WITH MORNING ZONE PACKAGE AS LIGHT RAIN WILL END THERE DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS APPROACHED 2 INCHES FOR MANY LOCATIONS...AND CALLS TO SEVERAL COUNTIES INDICATES SOME SWOLLEN STREAMS...BUT NO SUBSTANTIAL PROBLEMS. SURFACE COLD FRONT LAGGING BEHIND PRECIPITATION SHIELD AND LIES ACROSS SOUTHERN INDIANA EARLY THIS MORNING. WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE WEST AS FRONT CROSS REGION AND HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. SATELLITE SHOWS EXTENSIVE LOW CLOUDS WEST AND EXPECT LOW STRATUS TO BE SLOW TO ERODE. PARTIAL CLEARING WILL COMMENCE LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL GO WITH PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES OVERNIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY. FOR THE PERIOD SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...EASTERN TROUGH WILL BE CARVED OUT BY A SERIES OF DISTURBANCES MOVING SOUTHEAST FROM SOUTHERN CANADA ON BACK SIDE OF BUILDING WESTERN RIDGE. THE FIRST DISTURBANCE WILL BE A VIGOROUS CLIPPER TYPE SHORTWAVE THAT WILL DIG ACROSS WESTERN GREAT LAKES EARLY SUNDAY. DRY COLD FRONT WILL CROSS OHIO RIVER DURING THE MORNING HOURS. PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS CWA WILL REALLY TIGHTEN AS SURFACE HIGH BUILDS INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS. EXPECT BREEZY WINDS SUNDAY AS COLD AIR ADVECTION WILL AID IN MIXING MID LEVEL WINDS DOWN. COLD AIR REALLY ARRIVES LATE SUNDAY AND STRATUS WILL ARRIVE...WITH CLOUDY SKIES LINGERING THROUGH PART OF MONDAY. SECOND SYSTEM WILL DROP DOWN FROM NORTH LATE MONDAY. THIS WILL HAVE MORE MOISTURE...WITH THE UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS CLOSER TO LOWER OHIO VALLEY. POSSIBLE LIGHT MIX OF PRECIP IS POSSIBLE MONDAY NIGHT...EARLY TUESDAY. && .LMK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. KY...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 6 AM SAT FOR S AND E CTRL KY. && JSD
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 504 AM EST SAT MAR 6 2004 INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-071100- 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 504 AM EST SAT MAR 6 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND/OR TONIGHT. SOME MINOR FLOODING IS EXPECTED ON THE LICKING RIVER. SEE THE LATEST RIVER STATEMENTS / SDFFLSLMK / FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THE MINOR FLOODING ON THE LICKING RIVER IS EXPECTED TO END ON SUNDAY. SEE THE LATEST RIVER STATEMENTS / SDFFLSLMK / FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Licking River at Blue Licks Spring crested at 26.1 feet around 10 PM EST on March 7. Flood stage at Blue Licks Spring is 25 feet. Minor flooding of bottomland begins at this level.
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: 5387707.