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 Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 6, 2:59 AM EST, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED DATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 359 AM EDT THU JUN 6 2002 SURFACE ANALYSIS INDICATES COLD FRONT JUST SOUTH AND EAST OF FA. RADAR IMAGERY SHOWS SHOWERS ACROSS MUCH OF FA. CURRENT FCST OF CHANCE POPS IN WAPAK WITH LIKELY CVG AND CMH AND CATEGORICAL IN PMH LOOK GOOD. WILL MAKE ISSUE TIME DECISION ON DAY SINCE SHOWERS HAVE GOOD COVERAGE NOW AND MORE ON THE WAY FROM SW INDIANA. ETA HAS PCPN ALL DAY SOUTH OF WAPAK BUT AVN AND NGM DRIER. WILL HAVE MAINLY MORNING WORDING IN THESE ZONES. WILL LET FLOOD WATCH EXPIRE AT 4 AM. FWC GUIDANCE CAME IN MUCH LOWER THAN PREVIOUS FWC FOR TODAY. WILL TREND TO CURRENT FCST AS TEMP METHODS LOOK SLIGHTLY HIGHER. OBVIOUSLY...CLOUDS AND PCPN TIMING WILL DETERMINE TEMPS TODAY. THINKING THAT CLOUDS SHOULD SCT OUT BY LATE AFTERNOON TO EVENING NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST. REST OF GUIDANCE LOOKS REASONABLE AND CLOSE TO CURRENT FCST. ETA ABOUT 7 DEGREES COOLER THAN FWC AND MAV FOR FRIDAY NIGHT. WILL TREND CLOSE TO MAV. .ILN...NONE CENTER
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
757 AM EDT THU JUN 6 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0750 AM 5 SOUTH WILMINGTON OH FLOOD
06/06/02 CLINTON WATER OVER HIGHWAY 72 2
MILES SOUTH OF 729.
ARThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A large area of showers producing two to three inches of rain moved across southeast Indiana during the early morning, causing high water to collect on area roads.
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, June 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: 5304481.