Illinois, 2002

Flash Flood in Illinois, June 10, 2002

June 10, 2002 · NWS LSX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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 St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 10, 4:23 AM CST, 12 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 4:23 AM CST, 12 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
400 AM CDT MON JUN 10 2002

MID LVL VORT MAXES MOVG NEWD THRU AREA ON WEST SIDE OF SERN US UPR
RDG COMBINED WITH ABUNDANT GULF MOISTURE WILL BRING MORE SHOWERS AND
STORMS TO MUCH OF THE CWA TDA ESPECIALLY OVR THE ERN HALF.  INITIAL
VORT CNTR OVR NWRN MO INTO S CNTRL IA WITH SECOND WKR VORT MAX OVR
ERN OK.  THIS SECOND VORT MAX WL MOV SLOLY NEWD THRU E CNTRL AND
SERN MO TGT.  MAINLY LGT TO MODERATE SHOWERS WILL OCCUR THIS MRNG
WITH THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTN INTO THE EARLY EVENING WITH DIURNAL
DESTABILIZATION ENHANCED NR VORT CNTRS.  PCPN CHANCES SHOULD DCRS
LATE TGT AND TUE AS MID-UPR LVL TROF WITH EMBEDDED VORT MAXES MOVS E
OF THE CWA...ALTHOUGH MDLS ESPECIALLY ETA DEPICTS LOW LVL WAA MAINLY
OVR THE WRN PTN OF THE CWA ON TUE E OF 850 MB AND SFC LOW OVR CNTRL
KS.  POPS INCRS LATE TUE NGT AND WED AS CDFNT MOVS SWD THRU CWA.
AVN MDL A LTL FASTER WITH SWD PROGRESSION OF CDFNT THAN ETA...
PARTIALLY DUE TO A STGR SFC WV ALONG FNT OVR THE OHIO VLY REGION.
MDL TEMPS FAIRLY SIMILAR EXCEPT ON MAXES FOR TUE...WL LEAN TOWARD
WRMR AVN MOS...MAV GUIDANCE AS NGM APRS TO BE OVERDOING THE LOW LVL
CLOUD COVER.

.STL...NONE

GKS

The radar

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Bond

When
June 10, 5:00 PM CST to 7:00 PM CST
Where
Bond County, Central Portion
Reported by
NEWSPAPER
Coordinates
38.887, -89.436 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

About 3 inches of rain fell in about one hour causing some flash flooding in the Greenville area. Numerous roads in Greenville became impassable.

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

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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: 5298227.