Flash Flood in Arkansas, January 30, 2002

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$80,000

Crop damage

None recorded

Events

1

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.

NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 30, 9:33 AM CST, 5 hours 27 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
933 AM CST WED JAN 30 2002

FRONT CURRENTLY JUST NORTH OF A JBR-DYR-PHT LINE...WITH A 20 DEGREE
TEMPERATURE SPREAD BETWEEN JBR AND ARG...ABOUT 20 MILES. BASED ON
12Z ETA/NGM...FRONT IS ABOUT AS FAR SOUTH AS IT WILL GO BEFORE
LIFTING BACK TO THE NORTH. WILL LIKELY HAVE TO SPLIT OFF NORTHERN
TIER OF COUNTIES TO HANDLE TEMPERATURE TRENDS FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. FRONT WILL GRADUALLY LIFT BACK TO THE NORTH OF THE CWA
DURING THE NIGHT...AS THE NEXT IMPULSE RIDES UP THE FRONT. MAIN PUSH
OF FRONT WILL NOT OCCUR UNTIL THURSDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING...AND
SHOULD BE OUT OF CWA BY FRIDAY MORNING.

POPS TODAY SHOULD BE OF SCATTERED VARIETY. BEST LIFT IS NORTH OF THE
CWA...AS IS THE BEST PRECIP. SIMILAR SCENARIO TONIGHT. WILL NOT MESS
WITH POPS ON THURSDAY DUE TO TIMING ISSUES.

WILL LIKELY ISSUE AN UPDATE AROUND 1630Z. 10

.MEG...NONE.

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 152 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:57 UTC.

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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.

• Ice Storm in Oklahoma, January 30 to 31, 2002$300 million · 30 events
• Ice Storm and Winter Storm in Missouri, January 30 to 31, 2002$33 million · 37 events
• Ice Storm in Kansas, January 30 to 31, 2002$25 million · 9 events
• Ice Storm and Heavy Snow in Kansas, January 30 to 31, 2002$9.8 million · 7 events
• Ice Storm and Winter Storm in Michigan, January 30 to 31, 20022 injured · $820,000 · 19 events
• Ice Storm in Ohio, January 30 to 31, 2002$3.0 million · 4 events
• Ice Storm in Kansas, January 30 to 31, 2002$2.6 million · 2 events
• Dense Fog in Georgia, January 30, 200297 events
• Heavy Snow in Iowa, January 30 to 31, 2002$500,000 · 10 events
• Ice Storm in Missouri, January 30 to 31, 2002$475,000 · 4 events
• Winter Storm in Nebraska, January 30 to 31, 200227 events
• Winter Storm in Nebraska, January 30 to 31, 200224 events

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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: 5280831.