Name: Flash Flood in Arkansas, March 30, 2002
Start: 2002-03-30T09:30
End: 2002-03-30T09:30
Location: Arkansas

Where it happened

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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 30, 7:55 AM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 7:55 AM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
755 AM CST SAT MAR 30 2002

WILL DO AN UPDATE SINCE SVR WATCH 55 EXPIRES AT 800 AM THIS MORNING.
ALSO INCREASE WINDS NORTH OF THE FRONT.

PREVIOUS DISCUSION...FORECAST NUMBERS BELOW...

13

VERY WET PERIOD EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT 24HRS ACROSS MOST OF THE REGION
WITH THE EJECTION OF CLOSED UPPER LOW.

MODELS HAVE TURNED BACK TO THEIR QUICKER MOVEMENT ON THE UPPER LOW...
RESULTING IN A DRIER SUNDAY BUT WE HAVE TO GET THERE FIRST. 07Z SFC
ANALYSIS SHOWING THE ALL IMPORTANT BOUNDARY/FRONT NEAR A TRL...TXK...
PBF LINE. MODELS CONTINUE TO FLIP FLOP ON HOW FAR SOUTH THIS BOUNDARY
WILL FALL BEFORE STALLING OUT. BELIEVE THE FRONT COULD POSSIBLY MAKE
IT NEAR THE I-20 CORRIDOR OF N LA...AWAITING THE ARRIVAL OF A DEEPENING
SFC LOW TO TRACK ACROSS CENTRAL TX DURING THE DAY TODAY. WHILE THE
SHORT TERM MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT ACCORDING TO POSITIONING OF
THE FRONT AND UPPER LOW THROUGH TONIGHT...MODEL QPF ARE IN BAD AGREEMENT.
BELIEVE THE GREATEST THREAT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL EXISTS ALONG AND NORTH
OF THE FRONT TODAY...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE I-30 CORRIDOR OF NE TX...
SE OK AND ALL OF S AR. THIS FALLS MORE IN LINE WITH THE AVN QPF WITH
THE HEAVIER RAIN SHIFTING FURTHER SOUTHWARD LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT DUE
TO THE ARRIVAL OF THE STACKED UPPER LOW/SFC LOW. 00Z SOUNDING CONTINUE
TO SHOW A SUBSTANTIAL CAP IN PLACE FROM FWD/SHV/JAN YET ELEVATED SUPER
CELLS ONGOING NORTH OF THE FRONT WEST OF FTW. CAP IS WEAKEST NORTH OF
THE BOUNDARY...THUS THE REASONING FOR THE HEAVIEST RAIN ACROSS MY
NORTHERN AREAS TODAY. WILL LEAVE INHERITED FFA UNCHANGED...BUT WILL
TRY TO WORD IT WITH HEAVIEST RAINFALL ACROSS NORTHERN AREAS TODAY.
SEVERE WORDING WILL BE INCLUDED ALL AREAS TODAY AND TONIGHT.

CATEGORICAL POPS TONIGHT ALL AREAS WITH EJECTION OF THE UPPER LOW.
AS MENTIONED ABOVE...QUICKER MOVEMENT AND WEAKENING OF THE SYSTEM
SHOULD RESULT IN A DRIER EASTER SUNDAY ACROSS MOST AREAS. WILL GO WITH
SLIGHT CHANCES OF MORNING RAIN ACROSS E TX AND TREND POPS TOWARD CHANCE
CATEGORY FURTHER EAST.

TEMPS ARE A CRAPSHOOT THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH A LOT HINGING ON LOCATION
OF THE FRONT. WILL TRY TO BLEND MOS TEMPS...PERHAPS A LITTLE CLOSER TO
THE WARMER NGM MOS/MESOETA 2M TEMPS. THANKS FOR COORD SPC...PRELIMS TO
FOLLOW...13

SHV 77/57/68/46 7930
MLU 77/60/67/48 7940
TXK 68/54/66/45 +920
TYR 74/54/68/46 7920
LFK 79/58/68/47 5820

.SHV...FFA TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT...
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-OKZ077-TXZ096 -097-
108>112-124>126-136>138-149>151.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 30, 8:33 AM CST, 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
833 AM CST SAT MAR 30 2002

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

0715 AM    2 W DE QUEEN              AR   FLOODING
03/30/02   SEVIER                         COUNTY ROADS UNDER WATER.
                                          FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT.

0810 AM    2 S IDABEL                OK   FLOODING
03/30/02   MCCURTAIN                      TWO COUNTY ROADS UNDER
                                          WATER. FROM LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT.

0820 AM    3 E DE QUEEN              AR   FLOODING
03/30/02   SEVIER                         COUNTY ROADS UNDER WATER.
                                          FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT.

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The radar

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Howard

When: March 30, 9:30 AM CST
Where: Howard County, 1 mi S of Nashville
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 34.089, -93.993 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Highway 27 and Trenton Blvd were reported underwater.

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

More

Every storm in Arkansas in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Arkansas, March 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: 5281190.