2 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 Mar 25, 3:10 PM EST, 11 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 210 PM EST MON MAR 25 2002 VERY COMPLICATED FORECAST AT BEST FOR TONIGHT AND TUE MRNG. ARCTIC FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACRS NRN PTNS OF FA...VERY MOIST AIR IN PLACE...A SHORT WAVE BEING EJECTED NORTHEAST FROM THE SRN ROCKIES ACRS FA LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING. LATEST HPC QPF GUID INDICATES POTENTIAL FOR EXCESSIVE RAINFALL ACROSS MUCH OF FA...WILL ISSUE A FLOOD WATCH FOR ENTIRE FORECAST AREA FOR TONIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING. REMAINDER OF FORECAST VERY DIFFICULT...WITH STRONG FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS NRN PTN OF FA...SFC WIND FIELDS FOR ZFP WILL BE DIFFICULT...AS WELL AS TEMP TRENDS TNGHT AND EARLY ON TUE UNTIL COLD AIR OVERSPREADS THE FA AS THE SFC LOW EXITS ERN KY BY MIDDAY ON TUE. EXPECT THE ARCTIC FRONT TO ESSENTIALLY CUT OUR FA IN HALF DURING NITE AS SFC WAVE MOVES UP FRONT. TEMP RANGES DURING NIGHT FROM 35 TO 40 SOME INDIANA COUNTIES OF FA TO LOWER 60S ACROSS SERN PTNS OF FA UNTIL LATE TONIGHT OR EARLY TUE MORNING WHEN THE COLDER AIR SWEEPS OVER THE REST OF FA. WILL DROP MENTION OF RW-/SW- ON TUE NIGHT...AGREE WI PMDHMD DISCUSSION...THAT THE SYSTEM WILL MOVE OUT FASTER THAN EARLIER FCSTS INDICATE. .SDF...FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT AND TUE MORNING TIL 15Z. AB
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1117 PM EDT MON MAR 25 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0230 AM BEAVER DAM KY FLOOD
03/25/02 OHIO WATER OVER HIGHWAY 62
JUST WEST OF BEAVER
DAM. IMPASSIBLE.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1133 PM EDT MON MAR 25 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0333 AM BIG SPG KY FLOOD
03/25/02 BRECKINRIDGE HIGHWAY BEAR BIG
SPRINGS IMPASSIBLE DUE
TO HGIH WATER. .
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Water was over US Highway 62 just west of the Beaver Dam city limits.
Highway 333 near Big Springs was impassable due to 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, March 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: 5286120, 5286121.