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 Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 25, 3:30 AM EST, 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 330 AM EST FRI APR 25 2002 MAIN WEATHER PROBLEMS PRECIP TIMING THIS WEEKEND. SFC ANALYSIS AT 07Z SHOWS HIGH PRES RDG AXIS FROM THE DAKOTAS TO THE MID ATLANTIC STATES. UPPER SYSTEM OVER TX HAS SPREAD CIRRUS PLUME ACROSS S HLF OF INDIANA LIMITING COOLING EARLY THIS MORNING. MODELS MOVE SFC HIGH ACROSS GRTLKS TODAY AS LOW PRESSURE DVLPS OVER SW ROCKIES. TODAYS RUNS ALL A BIT SLOWER THAN YDA SO HAVE REMOVED PCPN CHC TONIGHT WITH RAINS STARTING SAT MORNING SW AND MIDDAY NE CWA. AS WRM FNT LIFTS TO LWR GRTLKS AIR SAT EVE...INCREASED INSTBY AND STRONG DYNAMICS SUGGEST EMBEDDED THUNDER LKLY FOR ENTIRE CWA SO WL ADD WHERE NEEDED. WILL CONT LOW CHC POPS INTO SUN BUT DRY IT OUT BY END OF DAY AS NEXT HI BUILDS IN. REMAINING PERIODS RELATIVELY UNCHANGED. FWC/MAV TEMPERATURES AND POPS FAIRLY CLOSE AND APPEAR REASONABLE. .IND...NONE DRT
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
East Fork White River crested at 13.21 on April 25. Flood stage is 12.0 Agricultural land a few roads flooded.
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: 5290601.