Flash Flood, Woodbury
- When
- June 20, 8:37 PM CST to 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Woodbury County, Climbing Hill
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 42.390, -96.045 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy rain flooded several roads and fields.
Flash Flood in Iowa, June 20, 2002
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 20, 7:40 PM CST, 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 7:40 PM CST, 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 840 PM CDT THU JUN 20 2002 EARLIER FCST LOOKS GOOD AND ONLY DID SOME ADJMNT FOR ON GOING SCTD SHWRS AND TSTMS. LOOKS LIKE THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LATER TNGT AS WAVE FROM OUT W MOVS IN AFT MDNGT AND LOW LVL SRLY JET INCRS. BEST AREA OF TSTMS WILL BE TO N OF WRM FNT THAT WILL BE MOVG N FM NTRL NE AND CNTRL IA TNGT AND INTO SRN SD AND SRN MN FRI MRNG. TSTMS SHLD CONT INTO FRI MRNG AND WILL HAVE TO WATCH FOR HVY RAINFALLS. .FSD...NONE WB
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 20, 8:33 PM CST, 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
933 PM CDT THU JUN 20 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0830 PM 5 SE LE MARS IA .75 INCH HAIL
06/20/02 PLYMOUTH REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0915 PM 5 N SMITHLAND IA TORNADO
06/20/02 WOODBURY REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
NWS EMPLOYEE.The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 122 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:35 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Wisconsin, June 20, 2002
- Hail in New Mexico, June 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 20, 2002
- Hail in Iowa, June 20, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, June 20 to 21, 2002
- Hail in Nebraska, June 20 to 21, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Texas, June 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, June 20 to 21, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, June 20 to 21, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Colorado, June 20, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 20, 2002
More
Every storm in Iowa in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, June 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: 5305932.