NWS Louisville Visits Mammoth Cave

NWS Louisville staff and student volunteers visited Mammoth Cave National Park as well as a few different weather observation sites, a highly prone flash flood spot in Grayson County, and Green River ferry this past Wednesday. These sites were visited to become familiar with these important locations in our local forecast area. In addition to familiarization, NWS Louisville Staff met with Mammoth Cave park officials to discuss the needed actions to make Mammoth Cave National Park Storm Ready. NWS Louisville and Mammoth Cave park officials will continue to work together over the coming months to achieve this goal. Pictured below are photos from Wednesday's trip.

Flash Flood Hot Spot in Grayson County on Huffman Road (2 pictures below). This location where the road crosses the stream bed is highly prone to flash flooding.

Climate Reference Network (USCRN) station at the Mammoth Cave Job Corps site. This site is part of a systematic and sustained network of climate monitoring stations across the U.S. The program aims to provide a continuous series of climate observations for monitoring trends in the nation's climate.

Rain Gauge at the CRN station.

National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Hamilton Valley Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) station. This site measures weather conditions as well as soil moisture. These observations help in the monitoring of drought conditions as well as watershed planning.

Mammoth Cave Air Quality Station. This station measures weather conditions and has many different instruments for measuring particulate matter in the air.

Green River ferry.

Evaporation pan at the Nolin River Lake station. These are used to measure the amount of evaporation that takes place over a 24 hour period.

Tailwater of the Nolin River Lake dam (2 photos).