Name: Flash Flood in Mississippi, July 14, 2002
Start: 2002-07-14T15:20
End: 2002-07-14T16:20
Location: Mississippi

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $1,000
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 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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 14, 1:30 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 1:30 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
230 PM CDT SUN JUL 14 2002

UPPER LOW STILL PARKED NR TXK...AND NOT MOVING MUCH. 12Z MODELS
GRADUALLY DRIFT THE REMNANTS OF THIS NORTH AND WEST INTO NORTHERN OK
OR SOUTHERN KS ON TUESDAY...WITH THE ETA MODEL SLOWER BY ABOUT 12
HOURS.

LITTLE DRYING OF AIRMASS BELOW 700 MB IS NOTED THROUGH MID-DAY ON
TUESDAY. BEST LIFT APPEARS TO BE IN THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...BEFORE
MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. THIS WOULD LEAD TO AREAL COVERAGE ON MONDAY BEING
A LITTLE LESS THAN THIS AFTERNOON. AS UPPER LOW DRIFTS AWAY FROM
AREA...ITS INFLUENCE WILL LESSEN. UNFORTUNATELY...I DONT THINK IT
WILL DRY OUT ENOUGH TO KEEP TUESDAY FORECAST TOTALLY DRY...BUT WILL
ONLY CARRY 20 POPS. CLOUDS AND PRECIP WILL BE DETERMINING FACTORS ON
TEMPS IN THE SHORT TERM.

AVN INDICATES NEXT SYSTEM WILL APPROACH LATE WEDNESDAY...AND MOVE
THROUGH AREA THURSDAY AND EARLY FRIDAY. CANADIAN MODEL LOSES IT
COMPLETELY...NOGAPS TIMING SIMILAR TO AVN. WILL MENTION CHANCE OF
PRECIP FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...ALTHOUGH CONFIDENCE IN DRY
FORECAST FOR FRIDAY IS LOWER THAN I WOULD LIKE. EXTENDED PERIOD
TEMPS SHOULD BE SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL. 10

PRELIM NUMBERS

MEM BB 074/089 074/091 075/094 332213
MKL BB 067/088 068/090 070/091 332213
JBR BB 070/089 070/091 072/094 332213
TUP BB 072/088 072/090 072/092 532213

.MEG...NONE.

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 141 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:20 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Coahoma

When: July 14, 3:20 PM CST to 4:20 PM CST
Where: Coahoma County, Friars Pt
Property damage: $1,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 34.229, -90.603 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A few streets were flooded.

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

More

Every storm in Mississippi in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Mississippi, July 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: 5311689.