1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 23, 1:30 PM CST, 10 hours 26 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 130 PM CST WED JAN 23 2002 MAIN CONCERN THIS FORECAST IS HEAVY RAIN POSSIBILITY FOR TONIGHT. AT 18Z...A COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM THE CENTRAL GREAT LAKES REGION THROUGH NORTHWEST ILLINOIS TO NEAR KUIN TO KPPF TO KOKC. LATEST VIS AND IR SATELLITE SHOW SOME CLEAR SKIES OVER SOUTHWEST MISSOURI INTO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...OTHERWISE WIDESPREAD LOW CLOUDS COVERED THE MIDDLE MISSISSIPPI AND OHIO RIVER VALLEYS. THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG THE FRONT IN OKLAHOMA AND MOVING NORTHEAST ALONG THE FRONT. AVN/ETA MATCH UP PRETTY WELL WITH BOTH LOCATION AND TIMING OF FRONT AND HEAVY RAIN AREAS TONIGHT...WITH AVN MAYBE JUST A LITTLE FASTER. EXPECT FRONT TO PASS THOUGH AREA BETWEEN 04Z AND 10Z...WITH HEAVIEST RAINS AND MAIN AREAS OF CONVECTION ALONG AND JUST BEHIND THE FRONT. SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF THE PAH FORECAST AREA WHICH RECEIVED HEAVIEST AMOUNTS LAST NIGHT WILL BE JUST OUTSIDE HEAVY RAIN BULLSEYE...WHICH IS BASICALLY ALONG THE OHIO RIVER. LOOKING AT FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE...BELIEVE THE WORDING RAIN MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES WILL COVER THE EVENT. WILL NOT ISSUE A FLOOD WATCH AT THIS TIME...BUT WILL ADVISE NEXT SHIFTS TO KEEP AN EYE ON AMOUNTS THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. AS FOR THURSDAY...CHANCES WILL DECREASE FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST THROUGHOUT THE DAY...WITH RAIN FINALLY ENDING IN SOUTHEAST PORTIONS BY EVENING. WILL NEED TO MAKE SOME WORDING CHANGES IN GOING PACKAGE TO REFLECT THIS...INDICATING BEST CHANCES IN THE MORNING FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST PORTIONS OF THE FA. TEMPS FOR TONIGHT IN CURRENT PACKAGE LOOK GOOD...WITH TEMPS NEAR STEADY OR SLOWLY FALLING ON THURSDAY. MAY TWEAK BACK TEMPS A LITTLE FOR THURSDAY NIGHT AND UP THEM A CATEGORY FOR FRIDAY BASED ON MAV/FWC GUIDANCE...OTHERWISE NO MAJOR CHANGES IN THE NEAR TERM. IN THE EXTENDED...WILL INCREASE HIGHS AND LOWS A CATEGORY AT LEAST FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. STILL NO PRECIP THROUGH MONDAY...WILL CONTINUE WITH CHANCE OF SHOWERS ON TUESDAY AND EXTEND IT INTO WEDNESDAY. .PAH...NONE. RSU
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1029 PM CST WED JAN 23 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1021 PM DONIPHAN MO FLOODING
01/23/02 RIPLEY MAJOR FLOODING THROUGHOUT
COUNTY. ROAD WASHED OUT
IN MORE THAN 1 PLACE...N
OF DONIPHAN ON HWY
21N-18. REPORTED BY EOC.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1042 PM CST WED JAN 23 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1030 PM CHAFFEE MO 1.00 INCH HAIL
01/23/02 SCOTT QUARTER SIZE HAIL
REPORTED IN CHAFFEE.
REPORTED BY EOC.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1044 PM CST WED JAN 23 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1030 PM MO FLOODING
01/23/02 SCOTT SEVERAL STATE HIGHWAYS
AND COUNTY ROADS HAVE
WATER OVER THEM. STATE HWY
W...WEST OF ORAN AND
STATE HWY 77...EAST OF ORAN
ARE UNDERWATER.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1052 PM CST WED JAN 23 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1035 PM CALHOUN KY WIND DAMAGE
01/23/02 MCLEAN WINDOWS BLOWN OUT OF A
REST HOME...NUMEROUS
POWER LINES DOWN.
REPORTED BY COUNTY
SHERIFF.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1118 PM CST WED JAN 23 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1015 PM PROVIDENCE KY FLOODING
01/23/02 WEBSTER FLOODING REPORTED WITHIN
CITY LIMITS. REPORTED BY
PROVIDENCE FIRE DEPT.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1122 PM CST WED JAN 23 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1120 PM SCOTT CITY MO FLOODING
01/23/02 SCOTT SOME INTERSECTIONS
FLOODED IN SCOTT CITY.
REPORTED BY SCOTT COUNTY
FIRE DEPT.The Paducah radar (KPAH), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:53 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Near Brownsville, a trailer was blown over, and the windows of a shed were broken. Just north of Fulton, the porch was blown off a trailer.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kentucky in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, January 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: 5277084.