Flash Flood, Koochiching
- When
- June 9, 11:00 PM CST to June 10, 6:30 AM CST
- Where
- Koochiching County, Loman
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 48.245, -93.783 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Minnesota, June 9 to 10, 2002
Three to six inches of rain overnight in northern Koochiching caused most roads in that area to become water-covered. Small streams overflowed their banks and 139 homes were damaged.
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 happened
The episode as NWS DLH wrote it up.
Three to six inches of rain overnight in northern Koochiching caused most roads in that area to become water-covered. Small streams overflowed their banks and 139 homes were damaged.
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 Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 9, 9:15 PM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 9:15 PM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 1015 PM CDT SUN JUN 9 2002 STRONGEST STORMS HAVE BEEN FIRING IN INSTABILITY AXIS UP THE RED RIVER VALLEY INTO NORTHERN MINNESOTA DUE TO LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE ABOUT A SURFACE TROUGH IN THAT AREA. 850MB JET UNDERFORECAST BY ETA...IT WAS 50KT ON THE 00Z MON SOUNDING. 850MB WIND FORECAST TO DECREASE OVERALL BY 12Z MON. HOWEVER...STILL EXPECT SOME ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM OVER THE WARM FRONT...MAINLY WESTERN AND NORTHERN ZONES. .DLH...NONE. MELDE
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 196 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:00 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Flood in Minnesota, June 9 to 30, 2002
- Wildfire in Colorado, June 9 to 30, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, June 9, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 9, 2002
- High Wind in Oregon, June 9, 2002
- Flooding in Minnesota, June 9 to 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 9, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, June 9, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New Mexico, June 9, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in North Dakota, June 9, 2002
- Wildfire in California, June 9 to 10, 2002
- Drought in Colorado, June 9 to 30, 2002
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, 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: 5306301.