1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 18, 12:27 PM CST, 6 hours 33 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 127 PM CDT THU APR 18 2002 MAIN CONCERNS FOR THIS FORECAST ARE CHANCES OF CONVECTION THROUGH SUNDAY AND THE ASSOCIATED AFFECTS ON TEMPERATURES. A FEW LIGHT SHOWERS DEVELOPED AROUND NOON OVER FAR EASTERN ZONES IN WESTERN KENTUCKY IN AN AREA OF SLIGHTLY DEEPER MOISTURE AND ENHANCED CUMULUS FIELD NOTICED ON SATELLITE IMAGERY. THIS ACTIVITY IS MOVING EAST OF THE AREA AT THIS TIME...AND SHOULD NOT BE PROBLEM FOR EVENING PERIOD. TO THE WEST...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAS DEVELOPED ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. THIS ACTIVITY MAY APPROACH SEVERE LEVELS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AS IT PROGRESSES NORTHEAST. IT MAY CLIP A FEW SOUTHEAST MISSOURI COUNTIES LATE THIS AFTERNOON...SO WILL HAVE TO MONITOR LATEST TRENDS BEFORE ISSUANCE TIME. A COLD FRONT CURRENTLY LOCATED FROM WESTERN MINNESOTA TO WESTERN KANSAS...WILL REMAIN NORTH OF THE QUAD STATE REGION THROUGH FRIDAY...AS THE SOUTHERN U.S. UPPER HIGH CONTINUES TO DOMINATE. HOWEVER...WARM SECTOR CONVECTION CANNOT BE RULED OUT...ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE STORMS TO THE WEST AT THIS TIME. WILL GENERALLY GO WITH BEST CHANCE POPS IN THE NORTHERN AREAS...CLOSER TO THE COLD FRONT AND WITHIN BETTER SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. FURTHER SOUTH...WESTERN KENTUCKY MAY REMAIN DRY UNTIL LATE FRIDAY NIGHT...WHEN THE COLD FRONT IS FORECAST TO MAKE AN INITIAL MOVE INTO AT LEAST THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE QUAD STATE. THE MESOETA IS MORE AGRESSIVE MOVING THE FRONT AND AN ASSOCIATED BAND OF CONVECTION THROUGH THE AREA BY MIDDAY SATURDAY. HOWEVER...THE AVN STALLS THE BOUNDARY ACROSS THE AREA ON SATURDAY AND THEN LIFTS IT BACK NORTH OF THE AREA SATURDAY EVENING. GIVEN THAT THE AVN HAS BEEN CONSISTENTLY SLOWER AND CORRECTLY SO...WILL TREND POPS TOWARD THE AVN. LOOK FOR THE SURFACE HIGH TO COME IN SUNDAY AND BRING AN END TO THE PRECIPITATION FOR COUPLE OF DAYS. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER APPEARS TO BE SATURDAY AFTERNOON...WHEN THE BOUNDARY WILL BE STALLED ACROSS THE AREA. THE EXTENDED MODELS CONTINUE TO BRING SOME SORT OF SYSTEM ACROSS THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY...SO WILL CONTINUE TO BRING IN ANOTHER CHANCE THEN. THIS SYSTEM SHOULD BE FAIRLY PROGRESSIVE WITH NEARLY ZONAL FLOW ALOFT...SO WILL KEEP THURSDAY DRY. GENERALLY FOLLOWED MAV GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES THROUGHOUT THE FORECAST...HOWEVER...THE FWC IS NOT THAT FAR OFF EITHER. .PAH...NONE. 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 around mid-month, and remained there the rest of the month. Through May 1, the stage remained within a foot of flood stage, so only minor agricultural lowland flooding occurred.
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: 5292717.