1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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 24, 2:00 AM CST, 0 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 200 AM CST THU JAN 24 2002 ONLY SIGNIFICANT CONCERN FOR THIS FORECAST IS TIMING CLEARING AND END OF PRECIPITATION TODAY. LEADING LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS CURRENTLY EXITING SOUTHEAST COUNTIES...WITH TRAILING STRATIFORM RAINS PRIMARILY OVER WESTERN KENTUCKY. THE MESOETA IS TYPICALLY VERY AGRESSIVE WITH THE DRYING TREND ACROSS THE AREA...WHILE THE STUBBORN AVN CONTINUES TO TRY TO KEEP SOME LIGHT RAIN ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST ZONES THIS AFTERNOON. THE AVN WAS A LOT MORE AGRESSIVE WITH TODAYS RAIN CHANCE IN YESTERDAYS RUN. GIVEN THE AVNS DRYING TREND...WILL CONFINE PRECIPITATION TO FAR SOUTHEAST ZONES THROUGH THE DAY AND WILL MONITOR LATEST RADAR TRENDS AND INCLUDE MENTION OF PRECIPITATION ENDING WHERE APPROPRIATE. TEMPERATURES WILL FALL ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA DURING THE DAY...WITH THE ENTIRE AREA REACHING THE LOW TO MID 40S BY LATE AFTERNOON. PLAN ON INDICATING STEADY TEMPERATURES IN THE NORTHWEST...WITH FALLING TEMPERATURES ELSEWHERE. BRISK NORTHWEST WINDS TODAY WILL DIMINISH LATE TONIGHT...AS A SKINNY SURFACE RIDGE SETTLES ACROSS THE AREA. THE RIDGE WILL REMAIN OVER THE AREA UNTIL EARLY SUNDAY MORNING...SO LIGHT WINDS AND CLEAR SKIES WILL BE THE RULE FROM FRIDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND. SOME MOISTURE WILL RETURN TO THE AREA ON MONDAY AS SOUTHERLY WINDS INCREASE. THE NEW AVN SUPPORTS GOING FORECAST TREND OF INCREASED CLOUDS AND A CHANCE OF SHOWERS FOR DAYS 6 AND 7. MAV GUIDANCE LOOKS GOOD THROUGHOUT THE FORECAST...SO FOLLOWED IT CLOSELY. .PAH...NONE. DRS
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.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1218 AM CST THU JAN 24 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1020 PM CALHOUN KY WIND DAMAGE
01/23/02 MCLEAN 1 COMMERICAL BLDG
(APPROX. 3000 SQ FT)
DEMOLISHED ON KY 81 ON
THE NORTHERN LIMITS OF
CALHOUN.
1020 PM CALHOUN KY WIND DAMAGE
01/23/02 MCLEAN SEVERAL HOMES WITH ROOF
DAMAGE...SOME WITH ROOFS
COMPLETELY TORN OFF IN
CALHOUN. REPORTED BY EMA
DIRECTOR.
1020 PM CALHOUN KY WIND DAMAGE
01/23/02 MCLEAN NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN IN CALHOUN.
REPORTED BY EMA
DIRECTOR.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1240 AM CST THU JAN 24 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1135 PM GIDEON MO WIND DAMAGE
01/23/02 NEW MADRID HOUSE DAMAGED NEAR
GIDEON. REPORTED BY NEW
MADRID SHERIFF OFFICE.
1151 PM BURNA KY 0.75 INCH HAIL
01/23/02 LIVINGSTON DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
IN BURNA. REPORTED BY
SHERIFF OFFICE.
1156 PM BROWNSVILLE KY WIND DAMAGE
01/23/02 FULTON MOBILE HOME BLOW OVER
NEAR BROWNSVILLE.
REPORTED BY HICKMAN PD.
1215 AM KY WIND DAMAGE
01/23/02 LIVINGSTON 2 MOBILE HOMES BLOWN OVER
NEAR THE I-24/KY 453
INTERCHANGE.
1217 AM WINGO KY WIND DAMAGE
01/23/02 GRAVES TREES DOWN ACROSS WINGO.
1225 AM PRINCETON KY WIND DAMAGE
01/23/02 CALDWELL SEVERAL TREES DOWN.
CARPORT BLOWN ONTO ROAD.
BARN DAMAGED. REPORTED BY
PD.KYZ001>013-015>017-020>022-MOZ109>112-114-240830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 200 AM CST THU JAN 24 2002 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 5 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND MUCH OF WESTERN KENTUCKY... THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES HAS DECREASED SIGNIFICANTLY EARLY THIS MORNING. THE MAIN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS SHIFTED EAST OF THE AREA...INTO CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND NORTH CENTRAL AND WESTERN TENNESSEE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Water was reported over the Highway 68/80 bypass near Elkton. A bridge on Stokes Chapel Road was underwater.
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: 5277260.