Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Kentucky, June 25, 2002

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$1,000

Crop damage

None recorded

Events

4

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 Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 25, 12:15 PM EST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
115 PM EDT TUE JUN 25 2002

MODEL TRENDS FOR THE SRN U.S. CLOSED LOW CONT TO INDICATE THAT IT OPENS
UP BY 48 HOURS AS FLOW ACRS OUR FA SHIFTS TO NW IN RESPONSE TO BLDNG
RDG NRN U.S. IF THIS DOES COME TO PASS...THEN WEAK CDFNT SHOULD DROP
INTO FA DUR THU NITE AND FRI.

WI THIS TREND IN MIND...WL KEEP SHWR CHCS ACRSS FA THRU THU NITE AND
ONLY ACROSS THE S ON FRI. OVR THE WEEKEND EXPECT THE RMNTS OF CDFNT
TO STALL OUT ACRS SRN TN. FOR THAT REASON WE HAVE DROPPED MTN OF
PCPN DURG WEEKEND.

TEMPS MORE OR LESS IN PERSISTENCE MODE...ALTHO WI LOW MIN TEMPS SOME
DURG WEEKEND WI EXPECTATIONS OF SOMEWHAT DRIER AIR IN PLACE.

.SDF...NONE.

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE, KY
513 PM EDT TUE JUN 25 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0452 PM     SE    PAOLI              IN   1.50 INCH HAIL
06/25/02   ORANGE                         REPORTED BY DISPATCH.

PKW

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 58 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:22 UTC.

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Thunderstorm Wind

Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

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.

• Heat in Maryland, June 25 to 26, 20026 deaths · 9 events
• Heat in Missouri, June 25, 20021 death · 1 event
• Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, June 25, 2002$810,000 · F1 · 22 events
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 25, 2002$850,000 · 1.75 in hail · 23 events
• Tornado and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 25, 20022 injured · $123,000 · F1 · 5 events
• Flooding and Hail in Ohio, June 25, 20021 injured · $60,000 · 50 kt wind · 6 events
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 25, 2002$36,000 · 1.75 in hail · 15 events
• Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, June 25, 2002F1 · 13 events
• Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, June 25, 2002F0 · 26 events
• Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in New York, June 25, 2002$30,000 · 3 events
• Lightning Strike in Alabama, June 25, 2002$25,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 25, 2002$25,000 · 1 event

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: 5301797, 5301798, 5301799, 5302072.