1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 20, 1:35 AM CST, 11 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 235 AM CDT THU JUN 20 2002 HAD TO DO A QUICK UPDATE TO REAPPLY POPS TO THE AREA FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT IN RESPONSE TO TROPICAL RESURGENCE UNDER A 500 MB COLD POOL. THIS IS QUITE TYPICAL OF A NOCTURNAL SUMMERTIME PATTERN. KEY FEATURE WILL BE THE APPROACHING STRONG TROPICAL WAVE CURRENTLY IN THE BAHAMAS AND SOUTH FLORIDA. THIS IS PROGGED BY ALL THE MODELS TO MOVE ACROSS THE EASTERN GULF STATES TODAY AND FRIDAY AND ARRIVING INTO OUR AREA LATE SATURDAY OR SUNDAY. IN THE SHORT-TERM...LIKE THE AVN MODEL SOLUTION OVERALL BUT THINK SLIGHTLY HIGHER ON POPS TODAY ACROSS THE BOARD...GIVING RESPECT TO THE COLD POOL IN THE BASE OF THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AND THE CONTINUAL INCREASE IN LOW LEVEL TROPICAL MOISTURE TODAY. WILL GO WITH 50 PERCENT ACROSS THE BOARD FOR TODAY...DROP BACK TO 10 PERCENT FOR TONIGHT AS LEE-SIDE TROPICAL WAVE INFLUENCES START ADVECTING CONTINENTAL DRIER AIR AS INDICATED IN THE WATER VAPOR LOOP. AVN MODEL SOUNDINGS SHOW HIGH P.W. AIR DROPPING BELOW 1.25 INCHES FOR FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND BELOW 1 INCH THEREAFTER. IN THE LONGER-TERM...AS THE TROPICAL WAVE MOVES TO THE WEST OF THE FORECAST AREA...EXPECTING A DRASTIC INCREASE IN TROPICAL MOISTURE ONCE AGAIN FOR THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEKEND. WILL SHOW 30 PERCENT SEA-BREEZE TYPE POPS FOR SATURDAY AND SCATTERED (40-50 PERCENT) FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY. MCB 88/68/91/65 5111 BTR 89/69/91/66 5111 MSY 88/74/90/73 5121 GPT 89/69/89/67 5121 .NEW...NONE LA...NONE. MS...NONE. 24
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-21200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1100 AM CDT THU JUN 20 2002 .SYNOPSIS... A WEAK UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE AREA NEAR THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA IN COMBINATION WITH DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE THE THREAT OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON DECREASING IN COVERAGE TONIGHT. .THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING....WIND GUSTS AROUND 30 MPH...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AT TIMES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. .ACTIONS... NONE. FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/LIX (ALL LOWER CASE).
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Two to four inches of rain fell in a short period of time causing considerable street flooding in the Pascagoula and Moss Point areas.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Mississippi in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, 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: 5302085.