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 Jan 24, 2:00 AM CST, 14 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 200 AM CST THU JAN 24 2002 ONLY SIGNIFICANT CONCERN FOR THIS FORECAST IS TIMING CLEARING AND END OF PRECIPITATION TODAY. LEADING LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS CURRENTLY EXITING SOUTHEAST COUNTIES...WITH TRAILING STRATIFORM RAINS PRIMARILY OVER WESTERN KENTUCKY. THE MESOETA IS TYPICALLY VERY AGRESSIVE WITH THE DRYING TREND ACROSS THE AREA...WHILE THE STUBBORN AVN CONTINUES TO TRY TO KEEP SOME LIGHT RAIN ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST ZONES THIS AFTERNOON. THE AVN WAS A LOT MORE AGRESSIVE WITH TODAYS RAIN CHANCE IN YESTERDAYS RUN. GIVEN THE AVNS DRYING TREND...WILL CONFINE PRECIPITATION TO FAR SOUTHEAST ZONES THROUGH THE DAY AND WILL MONITOR LATEST RADAR TRENDS AND INCLUDE MENTION OF PRECIPITATION ENDING WHERE APPROPRIATE. TEMPERATURES WILL FALL ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA DURING THE DAY...WITH THE ENTIRE AREA REACHING THE LOW TO MID 40S BY LATE AFTERNOON. PLAN ON INDICATING STEADY TEMPERATURES IN THE NORTHWEST...WITH FALLING TEMPERATURES ELSEWHERE. BRISK NORTHWEST WINDS TODAY WILL DIMINISH LATE TONIGHT...AS A SKINNY SURFACE RIDGE SETTLES ACROSS THE AREA. THE RIDGE WILL REMAIN OVER THE AREA UNTIL EARLY SUNDAY MORNING...SO LIGHT WINDS AND CLEAR SKIES WILL BE THE RULE FROM FRIDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND. SOME MOISTURE WILL RETURN TO THE AREA ON MONDAY AS SOUTHERLY WINDS INCREASE. THE NEW AVN SUPPORTS GOING FORECAST TREND OF INCREASED CLOUDS AND A CHANCE OF SHOWERS FOR DAYS 6 AND 7. MAV GUIDANCE LOOKS GOOD THROUGHOUT THE FORECAST...SO FOLLOWED IT CLOSELY. .PAH...NONE. DRS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flooding of the Cache River prompted the closure of U.S. Highway 51 between Ullin and Pulaski.
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, January 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: 5277261.