Flash Flood, Hempstead
- When
- March 19, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Hempstead County, Hope
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 33.735, -93.668 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Numerous roads in town underwater.
Flash Flood in Arkansas, March 19, 2002
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.
- 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
- 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 19, 8:00 PM CST, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 8:00 PM CST, 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
800 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002
UPDATED THE ZONES FOR WS 32. ALSO INCREASED POPS FOR AREAS WHERE
CONVECTION IS CURRENTLY INCREASING. LOOKS LIKE A BUSY OVERNIGHT...
05
.SHV...FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY
ARZ50-51-59>61-70-71-OKZ77-TXZ96-97-108>112The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 144 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:29 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, March 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, March 19 to 20, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, March 19, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, March 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Texas, March 19, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, March 19, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Texas, March 19, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Texas, March 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Texas, March 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Texas, March 19, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Texas, March 19, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Texas, March 19, 2002
More
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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: 5281185.