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 Feb 6, 2:55 AM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 255 AM CST WED FEB 6 2002 CHANCE OF SNOW MAIN CONCERN THROUGH TONIGHT. WILL UP POPS ALL AREAS TO CATEGORICAL...AND GO WITH PREDOMINANTLY ALL SNOW. SOUNDINGS SUPPORT NEARLY ALL SNOW...AS WE WET BULB DOWN BELOW ZERO THROUGHOUT NEARLY ALL THE COLUMN ONCE THE PRECIP STARTS TODAY. LITTLE WARM AIR ADVECTION SEEN ON BOTH THE MESO-ETA AND AVN TO OFFSET THIS TREND. THE EXCEPTION MAY BE TONIGHT IN OUR SE COUNTIES IN WRN KENTUCKY...WHEN THE MODELS SHOW 950-900MB TEMPS GOING ABOVE ZERO. WILL CONSIDER A RAIN / SNOW MIX IN THIS AREA. ANYWAY...GOOD ISENTROPIC LIFT SEEN ON MODELS 290-300K TODAY...WITH SPECIFIC HUMIDITY VALUES AROUND 3. MAY SEE AN INITIAL ROUND OF SNOW EARLY ON TODAY...GRADUALLY LIFTING NE ACROSS THE CWFA. BEST THREAT AREA IS ACROSS THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST. COULD SEE SOME ACCUMULATION. MAY MENTION AN INCH AVERAGE SOUTH. NORTH AND NORTHEAST SECTIONS TOWARD SE IL AND SW IN WILL BE INFLUENCED BY DRY LOW LEVELS UNTIL LATER IN THE DAY. FOR NOW...WILL NOT ISSUE AN ADVISORY AS WE DO NOT EXPECT A 2 INCH CRITERIA AVERAGE EVEN THROUGH TONIGHT. HOWEVER...WE WILL MONITOR THIS CLOSELY. SOME PLACES COULD SEE 2 INCHES HERE AND THERE BEFORE THIS EVENT IS THROUGH. UPPER LOW TO TRACK FROM ARKANSAS INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE TONIGHT...SETTING UP A DEFORMATION REGION TO ITS NORTH ACROSS MUCH OF THE FA. BEST THREAT ZONE AGAIN SOUTHERN HALF. QPF AND SPECIFIC HUMIDITY VALUES SUPPORT 1 INCH OR MAYBE 2 ACROSS THE SOUTH WITH MINOR ACCUMULATIONS POSSIBLE NORTH. IF THE ACTIVITY BECOMES MIXED WITH RAIN IN WRN KY...THIS WOULD TREND AMOUNTS DOWN TOO. THE DEFORMATION REGION SHOULD PULL OUT OF OUR EAST AND SE COUNTIES VERY EARLY THURSDAY MORNING...FOLLOWED BY RAPID AND DEEP LAYER DRYING THROUGH THE COURSE OF THE DAY THURSDAY. WITH PROSPECTS FOR SNOW...BELIEVE FWC IS TOO WARM. FAVORED MESO-ETA AND MAV TEMPERATURES FOR TODAY. AVN AND MRF SUGGEST A SIGNIFICANT SYSTEM TO AFFECT THE AREA LATE SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY. MOST RECENT ECMWF EVEN SHOWS THIS. WILL NOT MAKE CHANGES RIGHT NOW...OTHER THAN TO ADD CLOUDS. DAY SHIFT CAN LOOK THINGS OVER. PRECIPITATION MAY HAVE TO BE ADDED. .PAH...NONE.
ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-061710- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 510 AM CST WED FEB 6 2002 ...HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...WESTERN KENTUCKY...AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA... THREATS... SNOW ACCUMULATIONS APPEAR LIKELY TODAY INTO TONIGHT ACROSS THE FOUR STATE REGION. DISCUSSION... A POTENT UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS OKLAHOMA INTO ARKANSAS TODAY...AND THEN INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE BY THURSDAY MORNING. LIGHT SNOW WILL CONTINUE TO EXPAND ACROSS THE REGION TODAY...WELL IN ADVANCE OF THE STORM. LIGHT SNOW AND FLURRIES WILL CONTINUE OFF AND ON THROUGH TONIGHT...AS THE SYSTEM PASSES JUST TO OUR SOUTH. BEFORE ALL IS SAID AND DONE...1 TO PERHAPS 2 INCHES IS EXPECTED TO ACCUMULATE ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND FAR WESTERN KENTUCKY. AN INCH OR LESS IS EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHERN ILLINOIS INTO SOUTHWEST INDIANA...AND ACROSS THE PENNYRILE REGION OF WEST KENTUCKY AS WELL. THE SNOW MAY MIX WITH OR OCCASIONALLY CHANGE TO RAIN EAST OF THE LAKES...WHICH MAY SERVE TO HOLD BACK ACCUMULATIONS JUST A BIT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS POTENTIAL WINTER WEATHER SITUATION.
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 in response to heavy rain at the end of January. The river crested about one half foot above the 15-foot flood stage, causing minor flooding of low-lying mainly agricultural areas.
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, February 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: 5282887.