Flood, Jackson
- When
- March 16, 2:15 PM EST to March 17, 3:00 AM EST
- Where
- Jackson forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 38.906, -86.037 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood in Indiana, March 16 to 17, 2002
0 feet.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 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
- 1
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 happened
The episode as NWS IND wrote it up.
Heavy rains caused the East Fork White River to go to 12.71 feet near Seymour, where flood stage is 12.0 feet.
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 16, 3:00 AM EST, 11 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 3:00 AM EST, 11 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 300 AM EST SAT MAR 16 2002 MAIN CHALLENGE FOR THIS FCST WL BE GETTING RID OF THE LOW CLDS THIS MRNG AND THEN TIMING/CVRG OF RN OVRNGT TNGT INTO SUNDAY. LATEST SFC ANLYS WAS SHOWING THE CD FNT WELL S AND E OF THE FA ACRS NRN WV INTO SERN KY. KIND-88D WAS SHOWING THE HEAVIEST RN WAS NOW SE OF THE CWA WITH A FEW LGT SHOWERS DARTING ACRS FAR SRN ZONES. 11-3.9 MICRON PIX WERE SHOWING THE EDGE OF THE CU FIELD JUST N AND W OF KLAF WITH MORE LOW CLDS DROPPING DOWN FM THE N. FINALLY...UA PATTERN CONTINUES TO KEEP FAST SW FLOW ACRS THE ERN US WITH A BROAD TROF ACRS THE GT BASIN AND W COAST. MODEL TIME SECS AND LOW LVL MOIST PROGS SUGGEST CLRG ACRS OUR NWRN ZONES BEFORE DAWN AND ACRS SERN ZONES BY MID MRNG. THEY ALSO DRY UP THE LOW LVL MOIST ASSOCIATED WITH THE CU FIELD TO OUR N BEFORE IT GETS HERE. THIS SUGGESTS MOIST ASSOCIATED WITH THESE CLDS IS RATHER THIN AND WOULD EXPECT THEM TO ONLY BE A PROB THROUGH THE MRNG AND WOULD STILL EXPECT SOME AFT SS TODAY. CLDS INCRS AGAIN TNGT AS A SFC WV MOVES ALONG THE CD FNT TO OUR S CAUSING IT TO RETURN N AGAIN AS A WARM FNT. ALTHOUGH...MODELS DIFFER PLNTY WITH THE POSITIONING AND STRENGTH OF THE SFC WV (ETA HAS IT TO WRN KY BY 12Z SUN...AVN TO MIDDLE TN AND NGM DOESNT EVEN SHOW IT)...ALL OUR SHOWING NICE ISENT LIFT ON THE 300K LVL LATE TNGT/SUN MRNG WITH COND PRES DEFICITS DROPPING BLO 10 MB. BEST CHC FOR RN APPEARS TO BE IN THE 09Z-15Z TIME FRAME. INSTABILITY PROGS KEEP THUNDER S OF THE FA. RN SHOULD THEN BE ENDING AS THE SFC RIPPLE MOVES TO ERN KY BY 18Z PER THE ETA AND AVN ALLOWING THE FNT TO SAG SE AGAIN. ALTHOUGH...MODELS ARE SHOWING NICE DRYING ALOFT SUNDAY AFT...THEY STILL KEEP LOTS OF LOW LVL MOIST AROUND AND WL PROBABLY JUST PLAY IT MOSTLY CLDY WITH ANY CLRG HOLDING OFF UNTIL SUNDAY PM. MONDAY LOOKS NICE WITH DRY COLUMN...SFC HIGH PRES AND NICE WAA AHEAD OF DVLPG PLAINS SYS. RN WL RETURN MONDAY NGT/TUE AND CONT THROUGH MIDWEEK AS UPR TROF FINALLY STARTS APRCHG FM THE W ALONG WITH AFOREMENTIONED SFC SYS AND LOTS OF MOIST. MOS NUMBERS PRETTY CLOSE TODAY AND APPEARS REASONABLE AS NE WINDS/SS BATTLE IT OUT. WL LEAN TOWARDS THE HIGH SIDE OF GUIDANCE TNGT AS CLDS INCRS AND FAVOR COOLER FWC ON SUNDAY WITH CLDS HOLDING SWAY. FINALLY...WL LEAN TOWARD COOLER FWC SUNDAY NGT WITH PARTIAL CLRG AND LGT WIND. .IND...NONE. KOCH
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Tennessee, March 16 to 22, 2002
- Avalanche in Utah, March 16, 2002
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, March 16, 2002
- Winter Weather in California, March 16, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, March 16 to 17, 2002
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in California, March 16 to 18, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Utah, March 16 to 17, 2002
- High Surf in Hawaii, March 16 to 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, March 16, 2002
- High Wind in California, March 16 to 18, 2002
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, March 16, 2002
- Wildfire and Dust Storm in California, March 16 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: 5282029.