Widespread heavy rains during the last couple of days of April led to minor flooding of the Rolling Fork River, located in Nelson County.
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Widespread heavy rains during the last couple of days of April led to minor flooding of the Rolling Fork River, located in Nelson County.
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 Apr 30, 10:28 AM EST, 32 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1128 AM EDT Wed Apr 30 2014 ...Forecast Update... Issued at 1115 AM EDT Wed Apr 30 2014 Made some minor adjustments to the forecast this morning. First of all, lingered scattered showers in the east a few hours longer. Overall precip should be clear of the area by early afternoon with a window of clear skies trying to work into the region from the west. This clearing looks to slowly work east this afternoon and may become somewhat filled in with sct cu. The lingering clouds combined with a cooler airmass advecting into the region will result in high temperatures in the 60s for the most part. Nudged afternoon highs down a few degrees with this update. Winds may gust up to 20 mph this afternoon especially in locations that see at least some partial clearing. .SHORT TERM (Now through Thursday)... Issued at 330 AM EDT Wed Apr 30 2014 In the near term, a sheared out mid-level wave will continue to lift northeastward across the Ohio Valley this morning. Ahead of this wave, the nocturnal low-level jet will continue to pump moisture northeastward into central and eastern KY. Overall, the persistent band of showers across our eastern sections has been moving steadily eastward. We expect this trend to continue for the remainder of the pre-dawn hours. Best chances of precipitation will be out along the I-75 corridor which should gradually diminish by 6-8 AM this morning. Out across our central sections, mostly cloudy conditions with a few scattered showers are expected for the remainder of the pre-dawn hours. Some clearing has worked into our far western counties where the mid-level dry slot has punched into western KY. Temperatures have generally been falling steadily this morning. Expect lows to bottom out in the 50-55 degree range, with the coolest readings out over our far NW/W sections where skies have cleared. For today, large frontal occlusion will push eastward across the region. Currently this occluded front is out over western KY evidenced by the decrease in dewpoints as one head west. This feature should cross the I-65 corridor after sunrise and then make its way to the I-75 corridor by the early afternoon hours. Isolated-scattered rain showers will be possible across the region today, but by and large, most areas will likely remain dry. Skies will be partly to mostly cloudy at any location. Afternoon highs should warm into the lower-middle 60s across the far NW/W with upper 60s to the lower 70s across the central and eastern sections. A strengthening pressure gradient will likely lead to breezy southwesterly winds today. Sustained winds of 10-15 MPH with gusts to 20 MPH will be possible by late morning and into the early afternoon hours. By tonight, large upper level low and surface low will continue to move slowly off the east-northeast. For the most part, not expecting a huge movement in the system given the highly amplified flow aloft. Partly to mostly cloudy skies will be common across the region with lows cooling into the 43-48 degree range. For Thursday, we will continue to be under the dominance of the slow moving upper low and surface low. The system should start to move off a little faster as the flow begins to slowly unbuckle aloft. Another mid-level trough axis and weak surface reflection will make a run at the region during the afternoon hours which will probably bring some isolated-scattered showers. Thursday will be cooler than normal with highs only warming into the upper 50s to around 60 in the north with lower to middle 60s across the south. .LONG TERM (Thursday night through Tuesday)... Issued at 300 AM EDT Wed Apr 30 2014 The upper air pattern will undergo a significant transition over the extended period, which extends from Thursday evening through Tuesday. At 500mb, by late Thursday, leftover troughing associated with the current closed low over the upper midwest is forecast to extend from the Great Lakes southwest across the Lower Missouri Valley. This slightly amplified pattern will really tend to flatten out by early Sunday as the jet stream retreats north into a zonal pattern over our northern tier of states. By early Tuesday, a developing trough over the western states will promote ridging and warm temperatures over the Mississippi Valley. Basically, this pattern will bring a transition to warm late spring-like temperatures to the Lower Ohio Valley from Sunday through at least Tuesday of next week. Friday will continue cool, with partly to mostly cloudy afternoon skies as we will still lie under the influence of cyclonic flow centered around the Great Lakes. Forecast soundings still show relatively moist air and reasonably steep lapse rates below 10kft, which could support some very light showers Friday afternoon. Highs Friday will not make it much above 60. Warmer temperatures and likely more sun will arrive Saturday. Southwesterly surface winds of around 10 to 15 mph will develop by afternoon ahead of a very weak flat disturbance expected to cross Indiana early Sunday. Highs Saturday should reach close to 70 under partly cloudy skies. For Sunday and Monday, within a by now established zonal flow, a reasonably tight baroclinic zone is expected to bring a pretty sharp temperature contrast between central Kentucky and northern Indiana, which will still lie under the influence of cool high pressure over the Great Lakes. Depending on where exactly this sets up, highs Sunday and Monday may range from near 70 across southern Indiana to near 80 adjacent to Tennessee. Ridging, both at the surface and aloft, will keep Gulf moisture from advancing much north than the immediate coast. By Tuesday, this boundary is expected to retreat farther north, with highs likely approaching 80 areawide. && .AVIATION (12Z TAF Update)... Issued at 645 AM EDT Wed Apr 30 2014 Convection continues across mainly east-central Kentucky this morning. Convection seems to be flaring up slightly as mid-level wave transverses the region and the nocturnal low-level jet axis continues to bring moisture up across the region. Current thinking is that best chances of shower activity will be at KLEX early in the forecast period with lesser chances at KBWG and KSDF. Drier air just to the west of the terminals is forecast to spread eastward today which should bring and end to much of the precipitation. VFR conditions are expected to prevail at the terminals. The pressure gradient will increase somewhat today allowing gusty southwesterly winds of 10-12kts with gusts up to 20kts being possible through the afternoon hours. && .LMK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. IN...NONE. && Update.........AMS Short Term.....MJ Long Term......JSD Aviation.......MJ
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1129 AM EDT WED APR 30 2014 INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-011530- ORANGE IN-WASHINGTON IN-SCOTT IN-JEFFERSON IN-DUBOIS IN-CRAWFORD IN- PERRY IN-HARRISON IN-FLOYD IN-CLARK IN-HANCOCK KY-BRECKINRIDGE KY- MEADE KY-OHIO KY-GRAYSON KY-HARDIN KY-BULLITT KY-JEFFERSON KY- OLDHAM KY-TRIMBLE KY-HENRY KY-SHELBY KY-FRANKLIN KY-SCOTT KY- HARRISON KY-SPENCER KY-ANDERSON KY-WOODFORD KY-FAYETTE KY-BOURBON KY- NICHOLAS KY-NELSON KY-WASHINGTON KY-MERCER KY-JESSAMINE KY-CLARK KY- LARUE KY-MARION KY-BOYLE KY-GARRARD KY-MADISON KY-BUTLER KY- EDMONSON KY-HART KY-GREEN KY-TAYLOR KY-CASEY KY-LINCOLN KY-LOGAN KY- WARREN KY-SIMPSON KY-ALLEN KY-BARREN KY-MONROE KY-METCALFE KY- ADAIR KY-RUSSELL KY-CUMBERLAND KY-CLINTON KY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PAOLI...SALEM...SCOTTSBURG...MADISON... JASPER...MARENGO...TELL CITY...CORYDON...NEW ALBANY... JEFFERSONVILLE...HAWESVILLE...HARDINSBURG...BRANDENBURG... BEAVER DAM...LEITCHFIELD...ELIZABETHTOWN...FORT KNOX... MOUNT WASHINGTON...SHEPHERDSVILLE...LOUISVILLE...LA GRANGE... BEDFORD...NEW CASTLE...SHELBYVILLE...FRANKFORT...GEORGETOWN... CYNTHIANA...TAYLORSVILLE...LAWRENCEBURG...VERSAILLES...LEXINGTON... PARIS...CARLISLE...BARDSTOWN...SPRINGFIELD...HARRODSBURG... NICHOLASVILLE...WINCHESTER...HODGENVILLE...LEBANON...DANVILLE... LANCASTER...RICHMOND...MORGANTOWN...BROWNSVILLE...MUNFORDVILLE... GREENSBURG...CAMPBELLSVILLE...LIBERTY...STANFORD...RUSSELLVILLE... BOWLING GREEN...FRANKLIN...SCOTTSVILLE...GLASGOW...TOMPKINSVILLE... EDMONTON...COLUMBIA...JAMESTOWN...BURKESVILLE...ALBANY 1129 AM EDT WED APR 30 2014 /1029 AM CDT WED APR 30 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT WEATHER.GOV/LOUISVILLE. MJ/JSD/AMS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Rolling Fork River at Boston began to flood around noon on April 30th. It reached a peak stage of 35.6 feet during the mid-evening hours before falling below flood stage the morning of May 1st. Flood stage at Boston is 35 feet.
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