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 23, 2:19 PM EST, 8 hours 41 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 200PM EST SAT MAR 23 2002 DRY PATTERN INITIALLY BUT BECOMING UNSETTLED WX PATTERN LATE ON SUN INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. DURG SUN-MON MJOR SHRT WV TROF DROPS INTO WRN U.S. AND RESULTS IN A MORE OR LESS SPLIT FLO PATTERN DVLPG OVR CNTRL U.S. A SWRLY FLOW ALOFT PATTERN SETS UP ACRS FA. MODELS SHOW A SLOW MOVING TO STNRY FNTL BOUNDARY NEAR OR ACROSS FA DURG FIRST COUPLE OF DAYS OF NXT WEEK. ALSO COUPLE OF SGFNT SHRT WAVES ARE FCST MOVE UP THIS FNTL BOUNDARY PRODUCING PERIODS OF RAIN OR SHWRS. OF COURSE...THE USUAL MODEL VARIATIONS IN TIMING TO DEAL WITH HERE ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY... BUT DRYING OUT ON WED AND THU. IN THE SHORT TERM: WITH DRY AIR IN PLACE FOR TONIGHT...WILL SHADE FWC MAX TEMPS A FEW DEGS LOWER THAN FWC WHICH WILL MORE OR LESS AGREE WI OUR CURRENT FCST TRENDS. HIGH TEMPS ON SUN...WI SOME INCRS IN CLDS...WILL GO MORE OR LESS IN LINE WI CURRENT FCSTS TOO. BIGGEST FCST PROBLEM IN SHORT TERM IS THE HIGH TEMP FCST ON MON...THE SFC COLD FRONT WILL LIKELY DROP SOUTH ACROSS FA DURING DAY. HIGH TEMPS ACRS N WI EARLIER FROPA LIKELY TO BE IN THE LOWER 50S BUT NEAR OR ABOVE 60 ACROSS THE S. THIS WOULD BE MORE IN LINE WITH THE FWC TEMP FCST ON SUN. .SDF...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Ohio River at Cannelton Lock crested at 43.3 feet just before sunrise on March 25. Flood stage at Cannelton is 42 feet. Minor flooding occurs at this level.
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: 5286118.