1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 19, 9:58 PM CST, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 958 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002 QUICK UPDATE TO DO SOME MINOR TWEAKS TO TONIGHTS FORECAST... OTHERWISE EVERYTHING IN LINE. (22) .LZK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONES ARZ003>007...ARZ012>016...ARZ021>025...ARZ030>034...ARZ037>047... ARZ052>056...ARZ062...ARZ066.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
900 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0700 PM AR FLOOD
03/19/02 BAXTER NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS
FLOODED. SOME ROADS
IMPASSABLE. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICIAL.
0715 PM ROVER AR FLOOD
03/19/02 YELL BRIDGE FLOODED AT
INTERSECTION OF STATE
HIGHWAYS 27 AND 28.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0715 PM AR FLOOD
03/19/02 FULTON SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS
FLOODED. A FEW ROADS
IMPASSABLE. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICIAL.
0717 PM AR FLOOD
03/19/02 BOONE SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS
FLOODED. SOME ROADS
IMPASSABLE. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0730 PM AR FLOOD
03/19/02 SHARP WATER OVER GRIFFIN
BRIDGE NEAR CHEROKEE
VILLAGE. SOME COUNTY
ROADS FLOODED. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICIAL.
0740 PM AR FLOOD
03/19/02 IZARD LOW WATER CROSSINGS
IMPASSABLE. SOME WATER
ON COUNTY ROADS.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0745 PM AR FLOOD
03/19/02 NEWTON NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS
FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0750 PM AR FLOOD
03/19/02 MARION MANY CREEKS AND STREAMS
OUT OF THEIR BANKS.
SOME COUNTY ROADS
FLOODED. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0755 PM AR FLOOD
03/19/02 SCOTT SOME COUNTY ROADS
FLOODED. STATE HIGHWAY
80 WEST OF WALDRON
CLOSED. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
22The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:58 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rains caused flash flooding to occur over a much of Clark County. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain fell over the already saturated ground in the county resulting in numerous roads to be covered by high water.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, March 2002
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: 5287050.