1 flash 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 Sep 27, 1:15 AM EST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 230 AM EDT FRI SEP 26 2002 AT 1 AM EDT THIS MORNING...THE CIRCULATION CENTER OF ISIDORE WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI. THIS AGREES MOST CLOSELY WITH THE 06Z POSITION OF THE AVN MODEL. 00Z AVN IS FASTER AND SLIGHTLY SOUTH OF THE ETA TRACK...HAVING THE LOW LOCATED IN SOUTHEASTERN OHIO AT 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON. BELIEVE AVN TRACK IS ACCURATE ALTHOUGH A LITTLE FAST. THROUGH 2 AM THIS MORNING 4 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN NORTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN IN LOGAN BUTLER AND OHIO COUNTIES. A WIDE AREA OF 4 TO 5 TOTAL INCHES OF RAINFALL IS EXPECTED OVER CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA NEAR THE OHIO RIVER BEFORE THE RAIN TAPERS TO SHOWERS LATE THIS MORNING. SEVERAL FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS AND SMALL STREAM ADVISORIES HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES EARLY THIS MORNING OVER WESTERN AND WEST CENTRAL KENTUCKY...AND IS MOVING NORTH AT THE MOMENT...BUT WILL MOVE NORTHEAST LATER THIS MORNING AS IT WRAPS AROUND THE SURFACE LOW AS IT MOVES ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY. AS LOW PRESSURE MOVES NORTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON...RAIN WILL END FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST DURING THE LATE MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON. ALTHOUGH WINDS WILL TURN NORTHERLY...HIGH LOW LEVEL RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL KEEP SKIES CLOUDY MOST OF THE DAY. KLVX WIND PROFILES INDICATING WINDS SPEEDS INCREASING FROM 30 TO 50 KNOTS FROM 3000 TO 5000 FT. WINDS ARE HAVING TROUBLE MIXING DOWN TO SURFACE IN SOMEWHAT STABLE AIR. DO EXPECT HOWEVER THAT OCCASIONALLY BREEZY WINDS WILL CONTINUE FOR THE REST OF TONIGHT AND TOMORROW MORNING...ESPECIALLY MID DAY TOMORROW AS SURFACE LOW PASSES TO OUR NORTHEAST. THE WEEKEND LOOKS PARTLY CLOUDY WITH WARMING TEMPERATURES AS A STRONG RIDGE BEGINS TO BUILD OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES. .SDF...FLOOD WATCH THRU FRI FOR ALL OF THE COUNTY FORECAST AREA. JSD
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE, KY
1237 AM EDT FRI SEP 27 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1230 AM HARTFORD KY FLOOD
09/27/02 OHIO NUMEROUS CITY STREETS
FLOODED IN BEAVER DAM AND
HARTFORD. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
XXVPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE, KY
1000 PM EDT THU SEP 26 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0930 PM BOWLING GREEN KY FLOOD
09/26/02 WARREN NUMEROUS REPORTS OF
FLOODED STREETS. SOME
BASEMENTS FLOODED. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.
0930 PM 10 N SCOTTSVILLE KY FLOOD
09/26/02 ALLEN WATER RUNNING OVER ROUTE
1533 NEAR DIFFICULT HILL.
REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.
0930 PM FRANKLIN KY FLOOD
09/26/02 SIMPSON COUNTYWIDE: SEVERAL ROADS
WITH WATER OVER THEM. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.
XXVPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE, KY
152 AM EDT FRI SEP 27 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0150 AM MORGANTOWN KY FLOOD
09/27/02 BUTLER NUMEROUS ROADS CLOSED DUE
TO HIGH WATER, BOTH IN
RURAL AREAS AND IN
MORGANTOWN. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
XXVPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE, KY
235 AM EDT FRI SEP 27 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0220 AM BRANDENBURG KY FLOOD
09/27/02 MEADE COUPLE OF RURAL ROADS
CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER IN
COUNTY. REPORTED BY COUNTY
DISPATCH.
XXVPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE, KY
609 AM EDT FRI SEP 27 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0605 AM RUSSELLVILLE KY FLOOD
09/27/02 LOGAN SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED SINCE
MIDNIGHT DUE TO HIGH WATER.
REPORTED BY COUNTY
DISPATCH.
PKWThe Louisville radar (KLVX), 100 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:30 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The remnants of Tropical Cyclone Isidore brought heavy rains to parts of South Central Indiana. At Manville, Manville Road and North China Road were impassible in places. Numerous county roads and a few bridges were washed out. SR 256 was closed from SR 62 towards Austin.
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, September 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: 5320185.