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 Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 4, 2:00 PM EST, 9 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 300 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002 MESO ETA WAS RIGHT ON THE MARK WITH SUBTLE 2 OR 3 DEGREE DROP IN H7 TEMPS THIS AFTN ACRS PARTS OF OUR WRN & NRN FORECAST AREA (FA)... THUS ALLOWING FOR SOME TSTM POTENTIAL. MSAS DATA CLEARLY SHOWING DEFINED CONVG PTN ACRS SAID RGN...SO ISO TO SCT TSTMS WILL PERSIST INTO THE EVNG THOSE PLACES. MEANWHILE ... 2NDRY AXIS OF CONVECTION ACRS SRN MO (AGAIN IN MID-LVL INSTABILITY) WILL RIDE NEWD ACRS SRN INDIANA LTR IN THE EVNG/TNGT ... SO WE WILL KEEP POPS GOING OVNGT. ELSEWHERE...CLR TO PARTLY SKIES OUGHT TO DO IT. VEERING LLJ...COUPLED WITH APRCHG CDFNT...AND HELP FM RGT ENTRANCE RGN OF JET...WILL INSTIGATE NUMEROUS SHWRS/TSTMS BOTH WED AND WED NIGHT ACRS FA. PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES OF 1.50 TO 1.80 INCHES (OR ABOUT 150 PCT ABOVE NORMAL) STRONGLY SUGGESTS HVY RAIN POTENTIAL. SWLY FLOW ALOFT...AT ALL LVLS...SHOULD MEAN SLOW TRANSLATION OF FNT TO THE EAST. AS A RESULT WILL KEEP MEDIUM RANGE POPS E AND SOUTH THU MRNG BEFORE DRYING OUT. BUBBLE OF HIGH PRES WILL WORK ACRS THE UPR OH VLY/LWR GREAT LAKES ON FRIDAY BRINGING FAIR SKIES TO THE REGION THEN. HOWEVER...SRN PORTION OF LONG WAVE TROF...LEFT BEHIND IN TEXAS...WILL PROBABLY BE A PLAYER IN OUR WX OVER THE WEEKEND...AS IT APPROACHES THE OH AND TN VLYS. WE WILL PLAY IT CONSERVATIVE AND BRING SHWRS AND TSTMS IN ON SUNDAY. .SDF...NONE. STUREY
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE, KY
605 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0334 PM PENDLETON KY HAIL
06/04/02 HENRY HAIL .50 INCH DIAMETER.
0341 PM ORGAN CREEK KY WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02 OLDHAM TREES BLOWN DOWN IN ORGAN
CREEK AREA IN NORTHERN PART
OF COUNTY.
0350 PM WORTHINGTON KY WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02 JEFFERSON SOME CHIMNEY DAMAGE AND
SIDING OFF ONE HOUSE IN
EASTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY.
0345 PM CAMPBELLSBURG KY WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02 HENRY POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN.
0345 PM NEW CASTLE KY WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02 HENRY POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN.
0445 PM EASTERN OLDHAM KY WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02 OLDHAM TREES DOWN
0510 PM CUB RUN AREA KY WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02 HART TREES DOWN
0338 PM CAMPBELLSBURG KY WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02 HENRY TREES DOWN
0340 PM NEW CASTLE KY WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02 HENRY TREES DOWN
0345 PM SLIGO KY WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02 HENRY TREES DOWN
SZAPPANOSPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE, KY
655 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0532 PM 4 NE UPTON KY WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02 LARUE TREE AND LARGE LIMBS DOWN.
DEBRIS OVER ROAD.
MBSThe Louisville radar (KLVX), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:02 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Some city streets were flooded. A four lane bypass around the city was closed down to one lane in places by high water.
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: 5301784.