Flash Flood in Kentucky, January 24, 2002

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.

NWS Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 24, 11:32 AM EST, 28 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1132 AM EST THU JAN 24 2002

JUST SENT OUT A QUICK UPDATE KEEPING CHANCE POPS IN ALL THE ZONES.
BASICALLY KEPT 40 POPS IN THE NORTH AND IN THE EAST WITH SCATTERED
LIGHT SHOWERS CONTINUING TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA.  WENT AHEAD AND
RAN 50 POPS OVER THE SOUTHWEST WHERE PRECIP CONTINUES TO MOVE
NORTHEAST OUT OF TENNESSEE.

WE WILL GO AHEAD AND CONTINUE THE FLOOD WATCH AS SOME OF THE RIVERS
IN THE AREA ARE NEAR BANKFULL.

IFPS/NDFD GRIDS:  WILL JUMP INTO GFE AND UPDATE GRIDS TO REFLECT
POPS FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND UPDATE RDF.

.JKL...FLOOD WATCH FOR ENTIRE CWA UNTIL 4 PM TODAY.

JARVIS

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 116 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:58 UTC.

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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.

• Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, January 24, 2002$4.0 million · 69 kt wind · 30 events
• Heat in Georgia, January 24 to 31, 200297 events
• Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Kentucky, January 24, 2002$173,000 · 90 kt wind · 8 events
• Damaging Wind in Kentucky, January 24, 20023 injured · $75,000 · 78 kt wind · 1 event
• Flash Flooding in Alabama, January 24, 2002$155,000 · 5 events
• High Wind in Washington, January 24, 20021 injured · $100,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Kentucky, January 24, 2002$40,000 · 65 kt wind · 1 event
• High Wind in Wyoming, January 24 to 26, 2002$25,000 · 73 kt wind · 4 events
• Flooding in West Virginia, January 24, 2002$18,000 · 8 events
• Damaging Wind in Tennessee, January 24, 2002$22,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Tennessee, January 24, 2002$21,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Tennessee, January 24, 2002$20,000 · 1 event

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: 5279542.