1 flash flood, 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 Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 2, 2:30 PM EST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 330 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002 CURRENT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 8 PM FOR ALL OF OUR CWA. CONVECTION MOVING SE ALONG BOUNDARY WITH REPORTS OF SEVERE HAIL...TREES DOWN...AND HEAVY RAIN. THINGS SHOULD QUIET DOWN THIS EVENING...CHC POPS FOR THE EARLY EVE CONVECTION. MON WILL BE JUST AS UNSTABLE...BUT WITH THE FRONT TOO OUR NORTH...POPS WILL BE JUST SLIGHT CHANCE. LOW CHANCE POPS TUE...FRONT STILL TO NORTH THOUGH. STRETCHED OUT SYSTEM/TROUGH AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA STARTING LATE WED. UNCERTAIN EXTENDED: BIG CHANGE FROM GOING FORECAST WITH THE DRAMATIC SWING TO A FASTER/DRYER EVOLUTION. HPC AND OTHERS LIKE THE FRONT THROUGH OUR CWA BY THU WITH A DRY WEEKEND. CONSENSUS IS THAT THE 06Z AVN/ 00Z MRF ARE NOT HANDLING THE SITUATION WELL. DISCREPANCIES SEEN ACROSS THE BOARD AMONGST MODELS. MRF DEVELOPS A CUT OFF LOW IN THE SE U.S....LINGERING THE PRECIP OVER EASTERN KY. ECMWF ON THE OTHER HAND TAKES TROUGH QUICKLY TO THE NORTHEAST AND RIDGING BUILDING OVER OUR AREA BY SAT. A COMPROMISE LOOKS GOOD...BOTH MODELS ON EXTREME SIDE. ENSEMBLES CLEARLY SHOW THE UNCERTAINTY. AS FOR TEMPS...OPMRF DROPPING TEMPS TO AS LOW AS UPPER 60S FOR FRI...ALTHOUGH MRF ENSEMBLES SHOW THIS TO BE THE OUTLIER. WILL GO IN BETWEEN ENSEMBLE MEAN AND OPMRF...WHICH IS CONSISTENT WITH CURRENT FORECAST. QUICK GLANCE AT 12Z/AVN LOOKS BETTER...FITS FORECAST BETTER...LOOKS MORE REASONABLE. IFPS/GFE... POPULATED FIRST 60 HOURS WITH MESOETA WINDS/ TEMPS/ DEWPOINTS...ADJUSTED EXTENDED AS DISCUSSED ABOVE. WORK ZONES WILL BE AVAILABLE BEFORE TOO LONG IN THE AFOS PRODUCT SDFOZFJKL. .JKL...NONE. OUDEMAN
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON, KY
535 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM IRVINE KY 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/02/02 ESTILL REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0515 PM MCKEE KY WIND DAMAGE
06/02/02 JACKSON TREES DOWN
COUNTYWIDE. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
MHPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON, KY
542 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0505 PM 1 S SANDGAP KY 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/02/02 JACKSON REPORTED BY
GENERAL PUBLIC.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON, KY
550 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0341 PM IRVINE KY FLASH FLOOD
06/02/02 ESTILL *** 1 DEAD ***
ONE PERSON DIED FROM FLASH
FLOODING ALONG WAGERSVILLE
ROAD. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
MHPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR ERRONEOUS DROWNING REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON, KY
600 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0341 PM IRVINE KY FLASH FLOOD
06/02/02 ESTILL *** 1 INJURED ***
ONE PERSON RESCUED FROM
FLASH FLOODING ALONG
WAGERSVILLE ROAD.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
MHPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON, KY
633 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0545 PM 5 WNW SANDGAP KY .88 INCH HAIL
06/02/02 JACKSON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
0245 PM 11 W JACKSON KY WIND DAMAGE
06/02/02 BREATHITT TREES DOWN ON HOLLAND ROAD
NEAR KENTUCKY ROUTE 30.
REPORTED BY GENERAL PUBLIC.
0515 PM PAINTSVILLE KY WIND DAMAGE
06/02/02 JOHNSON 2 TREES DOWN ALONG
KENTUCKY ROUTE 825.
REPORTED BY GENERAL PUBLIC.
0622 PM MANCHESTER KY .75 INCH HAIL
06/02/02 CLAY REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0627 PM MANCHESTER KY 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/02/02 CLAY REPORTED BY
SPOTTER.
MHPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON, KY
700 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0530 PM 7 NE SALYERSVILLE KY .75 INCH HAIL
06/02/02 MAGOFFIN REPORTED BY
SPOTTER.
MHThe Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 58 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:16 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Red Lick Creek flowed over Red Lick Road, with three feet of water flowing over it. Initially a flash flood situation, this event became a flood event since high, flowing water occurred for greater than six hours.
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, June 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: 5300774.