Flood, Jackson
- When
- May 7, 5:30 PM EST to May 12, 2:00 AM EST
- Where
- Jackson forecast zone
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 38.906, -86.037 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flooding in Indiana, May 7 to 12, 2002
Flooding along East Fork White River. Mainly agricultural land and a few roads are affected in Bartholomew county.
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
- $50,000
- 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 happened
The episode as NWS IND wrote it up.
Flooding along East Fork White River. Mainly agricultural land and a few roads are affected in Bartholomew county. In Jackson county, extensive flooding occurred. Many roads are closed, and rural residences are affected. Flood Stage: Crest: Date of Crest:Columbus 9.0 11.42 05/10Seymour 2N 12.0 18.35 05/09
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 May 7, 2:20 PM EST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 2:20 PM EST, 3 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 220 PM EST TUE MAY 7 2002 UNSETTLED AND WET PTN WL CONT FOR A FEW MORE DAYS AS BROAD WSWLY UPPR FLOW WITH EMBEDDED WK DISTURBANCES INTERACT WITH A FNT AND CONVECTIVE OUTFLOWS. SIG UPPR SYS CURRENTLY OVR THE NWRN U.S. WL MOV INTO THE NRN PLAINS BY THURS WHICH WL HELP GIVE FNT A KICK TO THE SE. FCST FOCUS CENTERS ON POPS AND POTENTIAL FLOODING. IN THE NR TERM...ACTUAL FNT APPEARS TO BE LOCATED OVR THE NRN ZONES...ALTHOUGH PREVIOUS CONVECTION HAS PUSHED AN OUTFLOW WELL TO THE S OF AREA. AS HAS BEEN THE CASE THE PAST FEW DAYS...MAIN ACTION WL DVLP ALONG THE OUTFLOWS. MODEL DATA SUGGEST ANOTHER COMPLEX WL FORM THIS EVENING INVOF SE OK/SW MO AND MOV INTO SWRN BORDER COUNITES AROUND 08Z OR SO. ORIENTATION OF LLJ SUGGESTS TRACK OF COMPLEX MAY SLIGHTLY FARTHER N THAN LAST NIGHTS ONE. BASED ON ABV...WL LET OLD FLOOD WATCH EXPIRE AND ISSUE A NEW ONE FOR THE ROUGHLY THE SRN HALF OF CWA FM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TIL NOON ON WED. ALTHOUGH APPEARS HEAVIEST RAIN WL MAINLY BE OVR THE NRN END OF WATCH...ZONES IN THE N CAN TAKE MORE WATER AT THIS TIME. VERY LO FFG IN THE S. IN THE LTR PDS...REMNANTS OF COMPLEX WL MOV THRU THE AREA DURG THE MORN HRS WITH PCPN DIMINISHING BY AFT AS LLJ WEAKENS. APPEARS CDFNT WL BE PASSING THRU THE CWA SOMETIME THURS MORN. WL CONT WITH HI POPS INTO THURS AS A RESULT. INSTABILITY PARAMETERS LOOK THE HIGHEST WED NIGHT AHEAD OF CDFNT...BUT EVEN AT THAT TIME...THINGS NOT OVERLY IMPRESSIVE. NGM MOS HIGHS ON WED LOOK A FEW DEGS TOO WARM...ESPECIALLY OVR THE NERN ZONES WHERE PCPN WL LINGER THE LONGEST. ALSO...BASED ON XPCTD TIMING OF CDFNT ON WED...NGM MOS HIGHS ON THURS LOOK SEVERAL CATEGORIES TOO WARM. WL MAKE NECESSARY ADJUSTMENTS TO TEMPS. IND...FLOOD WATCH 05Z-17Z WED INZ043>049-051>057-060>065-067>072 JAS
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flood, Bartholomew
- When
- May 8, 11:00 AM EST to May 10, 10:00 PM EST
- Where
- Bartholomew forecast zone
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 39.206, -85.898 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
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 Flood in Alaska, May 7 to 11, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, May 7 to 9, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 7, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 7 to 9, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, May 7, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 7, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, May 7 to 8, 2002
- High Wind in Idaho, May 7, 2002
- Flash Flood in Alaska, May 7, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 7, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Ohio, May 7, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 7, 2002
More
Every storm in Indiana in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, May 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: 5296226, 5296225.