Flash Flood, Jackson
- When
- March 15, 11:10 PM EST to March 16, 12:30 AM EST
- Where
- Jackson County, Kurtz
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.906, -86.037 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Parts of State Road 58 were flooded.
Flash Flooding in Indiana, March 15 to 16, 2002
2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 Mar 15, 2:17 PM EST, 8 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 2:17 PM EST, 8 hours 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 217 PM EST FRI MAR 15 2002 AT 19Z RADAR SHOWING ISOLD SHRA OVR THE SRN HALF OF CNTRL INDIANA FCST AREA MOVG SE. SHRA ALSO DVLPG OVR SE MO AND SRN IL MOVG TWD WRN INDIANA. SFC ANALYSIS AT 18Z SHOWS LO PRES OVR LK HURON WITH CDFNT EXTDG SW ACRS SE INDIANA TO CNTRL AR. MDLS SIMILAR THRU 30 HRS...THEN DIVERGE. ETA/AVN MOST ALIKE IN LATER PDS WHILE NGM DOES NOT PICK UP ON SECONDARY WAVE MOVG UP THRU THE OH VLY SAT NGT. PREFER THE MAJORITY OPINION OF THE ETA/AVN HERE AS DOES NCEP. TNGT...CDFNT WL CONT TO SAG S OF THE FA...BUT LO PRES OVR AR WL MOV NE ALG FNT. THIS WL PUT FA IN AN AREA OF FAVORABLE ISENTROPIC /305K/ LIFT ALG WITH HI MOISTURE AND LO COND PRES DEF. Q-VECTOR CONV ALSO FAVORABLE...SO WL OPT FOR CATEGORICAL POPS FOR ALL BUT NW PART OF FA...WHERE LKLY LUKS BEST. THIS PCPN SHUD END BY 12Z...SO FCST FOR SAT IS DRY WITH SLGT DCRS IN CLDNS FM NW AS SYS SINKS FURTHER S. SECONDARY WAVE MOVS UP OH VLY SAT NGT AND AGN PUTS FA IN FAVORABLE AREA OF ISENTROPIC LIFT...AMPLE MOISTURE...LO COND PRES DEF AND Q-VECTOR CONV. THIS PCPN SHUD NOT BEGIN BFR LATE EVE AND AGAIN END BY 12Z SUN. EXPECT SOME DCRS IN CLDNS SUN. TEMP GUIDANCE IN GUD AGREEMENT...AND WL GENLY USE A BLEND OF THE NGM/AVN MOS WITH MESOETA SFC TEMPS. WITH PREFERENCE FOR ETA/AVN SAT NGT/SUN...WL TEND MORE TWD AVN MOS AND MESOETA SFC TEMPS FOR SAT NGT AND SUN TEMPS. .IND...NONE. ZIMMERMAN
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 15, 7:31 PM EST, 3 hours 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
731 PM EST FRI MAR 15 2002
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0710 PM SPENCER IN .6 INCH HAIL
03/15/02 OWEN PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
COVERING GROUND
REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:08 UTC.
Event by event
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash Flood, Lawrence
- When
- March 15, 11:45 PM EST to March 16, 1:00 AM EST
- Where
- Lawrence County, Bedford
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.841, -86.483 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Parts of State Road 37 were flooded
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Avalanche in Colorado, March 15, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, March 15 to 16, 2002
- Heat in Georgia, March 15 to 21, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kentucky, March 15, 2002
- Winter Storm in Michigan, March 15, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, March 15, 2002
- Blizzard in Alaska, March 15 to 16, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, March 15 to 17, 2002
- Frost and Freeze in California, March 15, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Washington, March 15 to 17, 2002
- Blizzard and High Wind in Alaska, March 15, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Washington, March 15 to 17, 2002
More
Every storm in Indiana in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, March 2002
Sources
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: 5282033, 5282032.