2 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 25, 2:46 PM CST, 4 hours 44 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 246 PM CST MON MAR 25 2002 LOW PRESSURE CENTERED NEAR HOT AT MID-AFTERNOON. FRONTAL BOUNDARY NEAR A PARIS-COVINGTON-SEARCY LINE AND DRIFTING SOUTHWARD. SUPERCELL THAT EARLIER MOVED ACROSS NC AR HAS WEAKENED. WILL ALLOW WATCHES TO EXPIRE AT 22Z...IF NOT CANCELLED OR REPLACED BEFORE THEN. STILL A THREAT OF SEVERE CONVECTION LATER THIS EVENING WITH MAIN IMPULSE MOVING ALONG FRONT. CATEGORICAL POPS AREAWIDE TONIGHT. FRONT SHOULD BE ACROSS SE PORTION OF CWA BY 12Z. RAIN MAY LINGER INTO MORNING HOURS ACROSS SE HALF OF CWA...WILL LEAVE CHANCE POPS THERE. CLOUDS SLOWLY DECREASE ACROSS AREA DURING LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING TOMORROW. DRY WEATHER WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...THEN CHANCE OF RAIN WITH FRONTAL PASSAGE ON FRIDAY. DRY SATURDAY...THEN AS SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO ON SUNDAY...CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN ACROSS MAINLY NORTHERN MS. DRY AGAIN ON MONDAY. TEMPS...12Z TEMPS TOMORROW WILL BE CLOSE TO HIGHS FOR THE DAYTIME HOURS AT MOST SITES. GUIDANCE HAS THIS HANDLED PRETTY WELL. SEE LITTLE REASON TO QUIBBLE MUCH WITH GUIDANCE AFTER THAT. 10 PRELIM NUMBERS MEM EU 045/050 035/058 042 +20 MKL EU 046/049 032/057 033 +40 JBR EU 039/045 032/057 040 +10 TUP EU 056/058 036/059 036 +40 .MEG...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several roads were covered with water.
Some roads and bridges were under 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: 5286509, 5286510.