3 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 14, 2:28 AM EST, 4 hours 32 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 328 AM EDT SUN APR 14 2002 H5 TROF LOCATED ACROSS MO EARLY THIS MORNING. VORT MAX PROGD TO PUSH INTO SRN KY LATER THIS MORNING. UPPER DIV PATTERN SHOWS BEST ENHANCEMENT SHOULD LAY GNRLY ALONG THE OHIO RIVER. SFC WAVE TO RIDE ALONG WEAK TROF ACROSS OHIO VALLEY. MSAS SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS GOOD MOISTURE CONVERGENCE ACROSS SW AND S CTRL KY. BEST PRESSURE FALLS OCCURRING ACROSS SRN IL...SUGGESTING SFC WAVE WILL MOVE INTO THIS AREA IN THE NEXT FEW HRS. IR SAT SHOWS MCS MOVING THROUGH SRN IN TO THE ENE...AND APPROACHING SRN IN ATTM. ETA AND AVN PRECIP PATTERNS HAVE SOME DISAGREEMENT DURING THE FIRST 12 HRS TODAY. ETA SHOWS GREATEST QPF VALUES ACROSS CTRL KY...GNRLY SOUTH OF THE RIVER....IN RELATION TO VORT MAX. HWVR AVN SHOWS GREATEST QPF VALUES NORTH OF THE RIVER...IN RESPONSE TO RRQ DIVERGENCE PATTERN. LATEST OBS AND RADAR TRENDS OUT OF WRN KY AND SRN IL SHOW HRLY QPF UP TO 1 INCH. GIVEN THIS...GREATEST CONCERN FOR FLOODING LIES ALONG AND NORTH OF THE RIVER WHERE RECENT RAINS HAVE LOWERED FFG VALUES. WILL RAISE A FLOOD WATCH FOR AN AREA INCLUDING ALL OF THE SRN IN COUNTIES AND A FEW KY COUNTIES ALONG THE OH RIVER. ELSEWHERE ACROSS CTRL KY...WILL MENTION HVY RAIN POSSIBLE WITH 80 POPS. IN SE PORTION FA WILL HAVE LIKELY POPS AND NO MENTION OF HVY POSSIBLE. IN TERMS OF TEMPS WILL LEAN TOWARD THE HIGHER EXP ETA AND FWC NUMBERS THROUGH THE SHORT TERM. NO MAJOR CHANGES PLANNED FOR THE EXTDD PORTION OF FCST. .SDF...FLOOD WATCH TODAY FOR ALL OF SOUTHERN INDIANA...PLUS TRIMBLE AND HANCOCK COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. JMB
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Many county roads were covered by high water. A vehicle had to be extracted from flood waters.
A few roads were covered by water in southern parts of the county. Sewers backed up into some basements.
Numerous roads were closed across western and northern parts of the county. Sewers backed up into some basements.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, April 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: 5291363, 5291364, 5291365.