Following the heavy snow, heavy rain and subsequent snow melt of March 4-5, additional rainfall March 7 - 11 continued minor river flooding across southern Indiana. This resulted in the Ohio River to rise above flood stage.
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Following the heavy snow, heavy rain and subsequent snow melt of March 4-5, additional rainfall March 7 - 11 continued minor river flooding across southern Indiana. This resulted in the Ohio River to rise above flood stage.
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 7, 12:23 PM EST, 37 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1223 PM EST Sat Mar 7 2015 ...Forecast Update... Issued at 1221 PM EST Sat Mar 7 2015 Temperatures have warmed up quite nicely today under mostly sunny skies and southerly winds. Updated the forecast for this afternoon to bump highs up a few degrees as temps are already near forecast highs in many places. .SHORT TERM (Now through Sunday)... Issued at 315 AM EST Sat Mar 7 2015 Seeing a wide range of temperatures across the area, with the coolest spots dipping solidly into the single digits, while most other spots are in the teens and the low 20s. Do expect to see a bit of a rise in temps toward dawn as the pressure gradient tightens a bit between a surface low over the western Great Lakes and surface high pressure just to our south. Expect a mostly sunny day with only scattered mid level clouds streaming overhead. Steady southwest flow should help temps into the mid and upper 40s for highs. As we get into the overnight hours, the southwest winds will continue with some mid and upper sky cover streaming overhead. Will see a much milder night with lows dropping to around or just below freezing. Am a bit concerned about advection fog and/or low stratus becoming a problem later this evening and through the overnight as there should be plenty of low level moisture from melting snow, combined with the steady warm advective component underneath an inversion. Will add mention of patchy fog and increase overnight sky cover as a result. Sunday will continue to be dominated by dry NW flow and surface high pressure. Although may have to deal low clouds trapped under the inversion. Forecast temperatures will depend on whether these clouds hold on. Latest data suggests they will so will go below guidance for Sunday. Temps should still warm solidly into the mid and upper 40s. .LONG TERM (Sunday night through Friday)... Issued at 315 AM EST Sat Mar 7 2015... A milder pattern will take hold for most of the upcoming week, but the southern stream will remain active enough to keep the weather a bit unsettled. High pressure over the Ohio Valley Sunday night will retreat eastward, moving off the mid-Atlantic coast by Monday night. Dry and increasingly mild conditions will prevail over most of the area through Monday. Temps climbing into the 50s in many locations will seem quite warm given the 3-week stretch of winter that we have endured, but are actually just barely touching normal. Southern stream system will take shape late Monday, with surface low pressure developing over the Deep South. POPs will ramp up for Monday night and Tuesday, with the best chances over south-central Kentucky. Some uncertainty over just how far north the precip shield will spread, so for now will limit POPs to 50% south of the Parkways, and taper down to 20 along and north of the Ohio River. QPF with this system will be quite light, so any issues on our rivers will continue to be driven by snowmelt at least through mid-week. Wednesday will feature low-level ridging from the north and mid/upper ridging from the southwest. Therefore expect dry conditions and a continuation of the mild temps. Seeing decent agreement between the latest ECMWF and GFS that any precip should be suppressed through Wednesday night, so will keep this time period dry. By Thursday the mid/upper-level flow backs to almost SSW, and we transition to a rainy pattern to end the week. Model trends point to a slow-moving system that could bring quite a bit of rain, and would aggravate flooding issues given that the ground is quite saturated. However, it is still 5-6 days out, so will limit POPs in any given time period to chance, and not get too carried away with QPF. Late-week temps will move to the high side of climo, especially by night with fairly extensive cloud cover. && .AVIATION (18Z TAF Update)... Issued at 1100 AM EST Sat Mar 7 2015 VFR conditions are expected through the afternoon and much of the evening with just mid level clouds moving across LEX and SDF. Winds today will be out of the southwest around 10-12 knots with gusts of 17-20 knots at LEX and BWG. These southerly winds will help to melt the snow, releasing quite a bit of moisture. This moisture looks to get trapped low to the ground tonight leading to a low stratus deck and/or fog. Guidance currently indicates this will be more of a stratus deck, so will just keep the fog light at this time. The moisture will remain tomorrow, so am not sure how much the stratus deck will erode through the day, but bases may lift a bit. && .LMK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. IN...NONE. && Update.........EER Short Term.....BJS Long Term......RAS Aviation.......EER
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 329 AM EST SAT MAR 7 2015 INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-080830- 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 329 AM EST SAT MAR 7 2015 /229 AM CST SAT MAR 7 2015/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. GRADUAL MELTING OF THE EXTENSIVE SNOWPACK THROUGH THE WEEK WILL FURTHER INCREASE WATER IN AREA WATERWAYS. THOSE LIVING NEAR LOW- WATER CROSSINGS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE FLOOD CONDITIONS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT WEATHER.GOV/LOUISVILLE. BJS/RAS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
An unusually wet period with repeated rounds of heavy rain brought the Ohio River at Tell City into a long duration flood. The river went above flood stage March 7th, crested on March 17th and then fell below flood stage March 23rd.
Heavy rainfall during the previous 2 to 3 weeks brought the Ohio River at Cannelton Lock and Dam into flood. The river crested at 47.33 feet during the morning hours of March 17th.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 564873, 564872.