Flash Flood in Arkansas, June 13, 2002

Name: Flash Flood in Arkansas, June 13, 2002
Start: 2002-06-13T16:45
End: 2002-06-13T17:45
Location: Arkansas

June 13, 2002 · NWS MEG · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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Heat and drought
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Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $1,000
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.

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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 13, 1:40 PM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 1:40 PM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
240 PM CDT THU JUN 13 2002

AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS DEVELOPED EARLY THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE
SOUTHERN PART OF THE FORECAST AREA. ADDITIONAL SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP TONIGHT AS COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE
REGION. FRONT WILL BE IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI FRIDAY MORNING SO THERE
WILL BE A FEW STORMS IN THE REGION FRIDAY MORNING. A DRY AND COOLER
WEEKEND IN STORE BEFORE NEXT CHANCE OF RAIN SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY.

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS
MEM 70/83/63/84/66 320
MKL 66/81/57/82/60 220
JBR 67/82/60/84/63 220
TUP 70/83/60/84/64 430

.MEG...NONE.

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 42 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:43 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Crittenden

When: June 13, 4:45 PM CST to 5:45 PM CST
Where: Crittenden County, Edmondson
Property damage: $1,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 35.208, -90.309 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Several streets were flooded.

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

Every storm in Arkansas in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Arkansas, June 2002

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: 5303181.