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 Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 22, 3:00 AM EST, 10 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 300 AM EST FRI MAR 22 2002 SAT PICS ERY THIS MRNG SHOWING COLD AIR CU STREAMERS ACRS OUR ERN ONE-HALF FORECAST AREA (FA)...WITH A FEW FLURRIES FAR NE SECTIONS. ALL MODEL 1000-850 MB MOIST GUIDANCE SHOWING RAPID DRYING THIS MRNG...IN STRONG SUBSIDENCE PTN...AS COLD TROF SHIFTS EWD. AS A RESULT SUNNY OR MSTLY SUNNY SKIES ON TAP. TEMPS FM AVN/NGM MOS & RAW ETA TEMPERATURE GUIDE...ALL WERE CLUSTERED ARND EACH OTHER FOR TDAS MAXES. COLD HIGH PRES (CNTR) THEN NOSES INTO THE TN VLY TNGT. GOOD DE- COUPLING OF THE WNDS IN THE SOUTH TNGT SUGGESTS COLDER TEMPS THERE... WITH A BIT MORE GRADIENT OVR OUR NRN FA. CLR SKIES SHUD RULE. RETURN SWLY FLOW ON SATURDAY...SHUD QUICKLY BOOST OUR TEMPS INTO THE 50S...WHICH CURRENT FCST PACKAGE COVERS WELL. OTHER THAN MAYBE A FEW CI IN FAST ZONAL FLOW DVLPG...SKY CONDS WILL REMAIN SUNNY. MODELS START TO DIVERGE SUN THRU MON TIME-FRAME WITH AVN TRYING TO DROP SFC BNDRY SOUTH THRU OUR FA SUNDAY NITE...WHILE MOST RECENT UKMET AND EUROPEAN MODELS HOLD BNDRY NORTH AND WEST WITH WAVE APRCHG. WUD TEND TO THINK IN SLGLY BACKED FLOW ON SUNDAY...MOST PCPN WILL STAY NORTH OF OUR FA...SO HAVE REMOVED POPS FM THE NORTH. OTHERWISE WILL KEEP CHC MENTIONED SUNDAY NITE...EITHER IN WAA OR FNT SLIDING INTO FA...AND THEN WAIT & SEE HOW THIS PLAYS OUT OVR THE WEEKEND. .SDF...NONE. STUREY
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Ohio River at Tell City crested at 42.0 feet just before sunrise on March 25. Flood stage at Tell City is 38 feet. Minor flooding occurs at this level. Water covers sections of IN 66 between Rome and Derby Indiana.
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, March 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: 5286119.