Flash Flood, Daviess
- When
- July 20, 9:30 AM EST to 12:30 PM EST
- Where
- Daviess County, Alfordsville
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.702, -87.072 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flooding in Indiana, July 20, 2001
3 to 4 inches of rain fell across Daviess and Martin counties in the early morning of July 20. Numerous roads were closed south of Loogootee, while most of the streets in Alfordsville were closed.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS IND wrote it up.
3 to 4 inches of rain fell across Daviess and Martin counties in the early morning of July 20. Numerous roads were closed south of Loogootee, while most of the streets in Alfordsville were closed.
What forecasters said that day
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 Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 20, 2:22 AM EST, 7 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 2:22 AM EST, 7 hours 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 222 AM EST FRI JUL 20 2001 MAIN FCST PROBLEM CONTS TO BE CHCS OF TSRA THRU ENTIRE FCST. SATL SHOWS CU OVR CWA WITH TCU/CB IN HIGHEST RH OVR SW HALF OF STATE. COLDEST TOPS OVR KY AND MID MS VLY. RADARS CONTINUE TO POP ISOLD TO SCT TSRA IN HIGHEST RH AREA AND WL ADD THIS AS NEEDED FOR EVE FCST JUST PRIOR TO ISSUE. ETA HANDLED THIS MORNS SHARS EVENT OF SW IN/CNTRL KY QUITE WELL. ALL MODELS AGREE INTO SAT WITH HI RH/PCPN PUSHING FROM NE/IA TO NRN IL SAT. BEYOND THERE...NGM LONE MODEL OUT IN PCPN MAX OVR SRN IN SAT NGT. WILL DISCOUNT NGM AND GO TO SIMILAR ETA/AVN SOLUTIONS OF CHC POPS ACRS NRN CWA SAT AFTN AND ON TO LATER PERIODS. TIMING AND STRENGTH OF SHORT WAVES INTO WEEKEND TRICKY AT BEST AND WILL KEEP CHC POPS WHERE CURRENTLY FCST AND DRY WHERE CURRENTLY DRY. SFC FNT PUSHED BY CANADIAN HIGH TO SAG INTO CWA WED AND EVENTUALLY TO SRN IN BY FRI. THOUGH POPS FROM MRF LOW HERE...WL KEEP CURRENTLY FCST TSRA CHC ALIVE. NO SIGNIF COOLING OR DRYING NOTICEABLE BEFORE THU OR FRI. ALL GUIDANCE TEMPS IN LINE WITH 88 TO 94 MAXS AND 71 TO 76 LOWS LIKELY TIL WE GET SOUTH OF FNT NEXT WEEK. AT WORST...HEAT INDICES TO REMAIN 97 TO 104 RANGE. HAVE REMAINED IN LOW POP REGIME WHEN FCST...FELT FWC POPS TO HI GIVEN ERRONEOUS PCPN MAX LATE SAT INTO SUN AM. .IND...NONE. TUCEK
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash Flood, Martin
- When
- July 20, 9:30 AM EST to 11:00 AM EST
- Where
- Martin County, 10 mi S of Loogootee
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.708, -86.803 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Wisconsin, July 20, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Montana, July 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, July 20, 2001
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Georgia, July 20, 2001
- Hail in South Dakota, July 20, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Montana, July 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 20, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, July 20 to 23, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 20, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 20, 2001
- Hail in North Dakota, July 20, 2001
- Hail in North Dakota, July 20, 2001
More
Every storm in Indiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, July 2001
Sources
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: 5252735, 5252736.