Name: Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 1, 2002
Start: 2002-06-01T18:28
End: 2002-06-01T20:28
Location: Kentucky

Where it happened

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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 Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 1, 2:45 PM EST, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 2:45 PM EST, 3 hours 43 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
345 PM EDT SAT JUN 1 2002

CONVECTION FIRING/DEVELOPING ON KY/WV BORDERS...ALONG WEAK
BOUNDARY...SOME HAS BEEN SLIGHTLY SEVERE.  WHERE IT HAS RAINED IN
EASTERN KY TEMPS ARE IN THE MID 70....AND SLOWLY
RECOVERING...OTHERWISE TEMPS IN THE MID 80S.

WEST COAST TROUGH BEGINNING TO MOVE ONSHORE.  WV SHOWS A PIECE OF
ENERGY/SHORTWAVE INTO NV.  IN THE TIME BEING...BOUNDARY TO MOVE
NORTH OF OUR AREA IN ASSOCIATION WITH A LOW OVER THE PLAINS.  UNTIL
THAT BOUNDARY/FOCUSING MECHANISM IS OUT OF OUR
NEIGHBORHOOD...CHANCES OF MAINLY AFTERNOON/ EARLY EVE SHRA/TS
PERSIST.  BY MONDAY THAT BOUNDARY LOOKS TO BE WELL TO OUR
NORTH...THEREFORE NO POPS...BUT IT WILL BE A RATHER WARM DAY.
PRECIP CHANCES RETURN ON WED WITH COLD FRONT TRYING TO PUSH THROUGH
THE AREA AS THE MAIN LOW AND WEAKENS.  SPECIFICS OF EXTENDED PERIOD
PRECIP ARE DEPENDANT UPON HOW UPPER LOW IN THE GULF DECIDES TO
/MERGE/ WITH THE TROUGH FROM THE WEST AND HOW NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN
STREAM FLOW WORKS WITH THINGS.  THIS FORECAST WILL BE SIMILAR TO
EARLIER FORECAST.

WENT CLOSE TO MOS NUMBERS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A TAD LOWER FOR LOWS
AND ONE CAT LOWER FOR SUN HIGHS.  BROUGHT COOLER TEMPS IN ON WED.

IFPS/GFE...
POPULATED FIRST 60 HOURS WITH MESOETA WINDS/TEMPS/DEWPOINTS...GRIDS
IN GOOD SHAPE.

WORK ZONES WILL BE AVAILABLE BEFORE TOO LONG IN THE AFOS PRODUCT
SDFOZFJKL.

.JKL...NONE.

OUDEMAN

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 82 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:28 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Pike

When: June 1, 6:28 PM EST to 8:28 PM EST
Where: Pike County, Phelps
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 37.469, -82.396 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Three feet of water covered Boardtree Road.

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

More

Every storm in Kentucky in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Kentucky, 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: 5302157.