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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 31, 4:35 AM CST, 6 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 435 AM CST THU JAN 31 2002 FINALLY A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL. HWVR...WILL NEED TO GET THRU TODAY FIRST. THE WIDESPREAD AREA OF MDT FZRA EXITED THE CWA SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT AS PRIMARY ISENTROPIC LIFT SHIFTED E AND WAS REPLACED WITH SOME WK SUBSIDENCE AS A SHRTWV ZIPPED BY. CHALLENGE TODAY WILL BE HOW MUCH MORE -FZRA/-FZDZ WILL OCR AND WHERE/HOW MUCH SNOW WILL FALL AS DEFORMATION ZONE SPREADS NE. META HAS DONE A VERY GD JOB ON FCSTG AMTS/AREAS OF HVY SNOW AND ICE. AFTER LOOKING AT CURRENT TRENDS ON SAT AND RADAR META STILL THE MODEL OF CHOICE. MODEL SOUNDINGS STILL SUPPORT PRIMARILY FREEZING PCPN OVR MOST OF CWA WITH THE BEST CHC FOR ANY ADDNL MEASURABLE SNOW IN FAR NW MO. STILL EXPC TO SEE AN INCR IN -FZRA/-FZDZ ACRS ERN KS...SPREADING INTO WRN CWA ARND 12Z OR SHORTLY THEREAFTER. ICT RADAR SHOWS PCPN IS FORMING IN BANDS WHICH IS A CAUSE FOR SOME CONCERN. LIGHTNING WAS NOTED ERYR TNGT OVR THE TX PNHNDL WITH THIS CLDNS. WILL KEEP AN EYE ON UPSTRM RADARS. SOME ADDNL ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE LIKELY OVR PARTS OF W CNTRL THRU NE MO....BUT NOT LIKE ON WED. LLVL WRMG TURNED OUT TO BE MORE PRONOUNCED THAN ERYR THOUGHT. SFC TEMPS JUST UNDER FREEZING AS FAR N AS A STJ TO IRK LN. WILL FLAT LN TEMPS TODAY OVR MOST OF CWA. DEFORMATION SNOW BAND ACRS NW MO THIS EVE...OTRW CLRG OCRS OVR NW MO VERY LT TNGT. REST OF CWA SHUD RMN CLDY. WHERE SKIES CLR WITH A DEEP SNOW COVER SHUD SEE MINS RCH SINGLE DIGITS. DEEP SNOW COVER AND ICE WILL LIMIT WARMUP TMRW...SPCLLY OVR NRN MO. SAME CAN BE SAID ON SAT AS TEMPS REBOUND ABV FREZING. .EAX... KS...WINTER STORM WARNING TODAY. MO...WINTER STORM WARNING THROUGH THIS EVENING FAR NW MO...OTRW WINTER STORM WARNING TODAY. MJ
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-011200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 600 AM CST WED JAN 30 2002 ...WINTER STORM WARNING THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSOURI... ...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REST OF THE REGION FOR TODAY... FORECAST: ANOTHER ROUND OF FREEZING RAIN...POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SLEET...WILL AFFECT ALL BUT FAR NORTHWEST MISSOURI TODAY. THE FREEZING PRECIPITATION SHOULD REACH EAST CENTRAL KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI BETWEEN 7 AND 8 AM. THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD EXPAND IN COVERAGE DURING THE MORNING. HOWEVER...THE AMOUNT OF ADDITIONAL ICE ACCUMULATION WILL NOT COME CLOSE TO WHAT OCCURRED ON WEDNESDAY. ADDITIONAL ICE ACCUMULATIONS MAY REACH A TENTH OF AN INCH. FURTHER TO THE NORTH...SNOW IS FORECAST FOR THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF MISSOURI. BETWEEN ONE AND THREE INCHES OF NEW SNOW IS POSSIBLE IN TARKIO...MARYVILLE...MOUND CITY...ROCKPORT...GRANT CITY AND SURROUNDING CITIES BY EARLY EVENING. OUTLOOK: HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE REGION FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AND ALLOW FOR A GRADUAL WARM UP. MJ THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/EAX OR AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Minor flooding due to heavy rains, occurred on the Lamine River near Otterville.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, January 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: 5283372.