Flash Flood in Arkansas, March 31, 2002

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.

NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 30, 8:59 PM CST, 6 hours 6 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
859 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002

SFC FRONT REMAINS NEARLY STATIONARY TO THE SOUTH OF THE CWA THIS
EVENING. MEANWHILE THE UPR LOW OVR ERN TX WL MOVE SLOWLY EAST TO
SE AR BY EARLY SUN. 00Z MESOETA CONTINUES TO SHOW LARGE UVVS INVOF OF
THE DEFORMATION ZONE ACRS THE CWFA OVRNGT. MESOETA KICKING OUT ABOUT
2 INCHES ACRS THE AREA BY 15Z SUN. CURRENT RADAR INDICATES A
LARGE AMOUNT OF RAIN UPSTREAM WITH SOME ELEVATED CONVECTION N
OF THE SFC FRONT ACRS AR. EXPECT MDT-HVY RAIN TO CONT OVRNGT WITH
CURRENT FORECAST ON TRACK. SOME THUNDER POSSIBLE ACRS SRN HALF OF
THE CWFA. WL UPDATE FFA AT 04Z.

.MEG...FLOOD WATCH ENTIRE CWA TONIGHT (THROUGH 12Z/31).
SJM

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 135 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:04 UTC.

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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.

• Damaging Wind in Georgia, March 31, 20021 death · $10,000 · 1 event
• Tornado in Louisiana, March 31, 2002$75,000 · F1 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 31, 2002$100,000 · 1 event
• Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 31, 2002$75,000 · 0.75 in hail · 2 events
• Damaging Wind in Texas, March 31, 2002$75,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 31, 2002$25,000 · 55 kt wind · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Georgia, March 31, 2002$20,000 · 1 event
• Flash Flood and Hail in North Carolina, March 31, 20021.75 in hail · 14 events
• Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, March 31, 20021.75 in hail · 13 events
• Lightning Strike in Florida, March 31, 2002$15,000 · 1 event
• Hail in Georgia, March 31, 20022 in hail · 6 events
• Dense Fog in California, March 31, 20024 events

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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: 5286629.