1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 6, 1:38 PM CST, 4 hours 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 138 PM CST WED FEB 6 2002 SNOW CHANCES AND AMOUNTS FOR TONIGHT ARE MAIN FORECAST QUESTIONS. LATEST WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWS UPPER LOW SPINNING OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...WITH A DRY SLOT PUSHING ACROSS THE PAH FORECAST AREA. LATEST KPAH RADAR SHOWS SNOW QUICKLY DIMINISHING FROM THE SOUTHWEST. WITH SNOW ENDED AND A FEW PEEKS OF SUN LATE THIS MORNING...PAH TEMP HIT 40 DEGREES. TEMPS BY 1 PM ACROSS THE REST OF THE AREA WERE IN THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 30S. UPPER SYSTEM IS WEAKENING AND LIFTING OUT...AND MODELS ARE NOT INDICATING MUCH LIFT ACROSS THE REGION FOR TONIGHT. HOWEVER...WITH SOME DECENT UPPER DIVERGENCE AND A NARROW DEFORMATION ZONE...STILL EXPECT LIGHT SNOW TO REDEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. BY DAYBREAK...DO NOT EXPECT TO SEE ANYTHING BUT MINOR ACCUMULATIONS IN NORTHERN HALF...MAYBE AROUND AN INCH FOR THE SOUTH. TEMPS OVER SOUTHEAST COUNTIES MAY STILL BRING A MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW...AND WILL ALSO CONTINUE TO KEEP A LOW CHANCE POP THU MORNING FOR THOSE COUNTIES. DRY CONDITIONS AND A WARM UP ARE EXPECTED INTO THE EARLY PART OF THE WEEKEND. NEXT IMPRESSIVE SYSTEM MOVES INTO THE AREA LATE SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY. TEMPS AND NUMERICAL GUIDANCE INDICATE AN ALL RAIN EVENT...ALTHOUGH AVN SHOWS SOME MINOR SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OVER THE AREA. FOR NOW WILL INCLUDE A CHANCE OF RAIN AND SEE HOW TEMPS LOOK ON THE NEXT COUPLE OF MODEL RUNS. MRF THEN SHOWS A SYSTEM MOVING THROUGH NEXT WEDNESDAY. THIS FAR OUT IN THE FORECAST WILL NOT INCLUDE ANY PRECIP CHANCE BUT WILL INCLUDE MORE CLOUD COVER. FOR NEAR TERM TEMPS WILL STICK CLOSER TO WARMER FWC NUMBERS FOR FIRST TWO PERIODS...THEN FWC/MAV ARE VERY SIMILAR AND WILL STICK TO THESE VALUES. FMR/MEX VALUES CLOSE THROUGH THE WEEKEND...THEN WILL LEAN TOWARD WARMER FMR TEMPS FROM MONDAY ON. .PAH...NONE. RSU
ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-070100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1250 PM CST WED FEB 6 2002 ...HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...WESTERN KENTUCKY...AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA... THREATS... MINOR SNOW ACCUMULATIONS APPEAR LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE FOUR STATE REGION. DISCUSSION... A POTENT UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS OKLAHOMA INTO ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON...AND THEN INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE BY THURSDAY MORNING. AN AREA OF LIGHT SNOW OUT AHEAD OF THE STORM SYSTEM BROUGHT WIDESPREAD 1 INCH SNOWFALLS ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI EARLY THIS MORNING. THIS AREA OF SNOW IS CONTINUING TO MOVE NORTHEAST AND WEAKEN OVER THE EVANSVILLE TRI STATE AREA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. ONLY MINOR ACCUMULATIONS...LESS THAN A HALF INCH...WERE REPORTED ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE REGION THIS MORNING. AS THE UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM APPROACHES...LIGHT SNOW IS EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP ACROSS THE QUAD STATE REGION...BEGINNING IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI LATE THIS AFTERNOON. DUE TO THE RELATIVELY WEAK UPWARD LIFT ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORM SYSTEM AND MEAGER MOISTURE AVAILABLE TO IT...ONLY LIGHT SNOW IS EXPECTED. THE STRONGEST UPWARD LIFT WILL BE CONFINED TO THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE QUAD STATE REGION THIS EVENING...WHERE UP TO AN INCH OF ADDITIONAL SNOWFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE. FURTHER NORTH OVER THE EVANSVILLE TRI STATE AREA AND MUCH OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...LIGHT SNOW AND FLURRIES WILL RESULT IN LITTLE OR NO ACCUMULATION. THE SNOWFALL SHOULD COME TO AND END FROM WEST TO EAST AFTER MIDNIGHT...WITH ALL AREAS BEING DRY BY SUNRISE THURSDAY MORNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS POTENTIAL WINTER WEATHER SITUATION. DRS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Wabash River rose above flood stage at New Harmony, IN in response to heavy rain at the end of January. The river crested about one half foot above the 15-foot flood stage, causing minor flooding of low-lying mainly agricultural areas.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Illinois in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, February 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: 5282888.