Flood in Missouri, March 25 to 26, 2002

Name: Flood in Missouri, March 25 to 26, 2002
Start: 2002-03-25T23:00
End: 2002-03-26T01:30
Location: Missouri

March 25 to 26, 2002 · NWS MEG · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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Floods
Wind
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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 Mar 25, 9:45 PM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 9:45 PM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
945 PM CST MON MAR 25 2002

RATHER ACTIVE WEATHER EVENT IN PROGRESS. LOW NO OVER MEMPHIS MOVING
NORTHEAST. ELEVATED STORMS AND RAIN ON THE COLD SIDE OF THE LOW
COMING FROM LIFT FROM TROUGH NUDGING INTO WESTERN MO/AR. MAIN
FEATURE OF STORMS HAS BEEN HEAVY RAIN. SELS STILL SAYS ONE CAN NOT
RULE OUT HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SEVERE STORM FORECAST CENTER SAYS
ANOTHER WATCH MAY HAVE TO ISSUED FOR MUCH OF THE MIDSOUTH SHORTLY.

ALREADY UPDATED ZONES TO REFLECT CURRENT CONDITIONS.

.MEG...NONE.

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Dunklin

When: March 25, 11:00 PM CST to March 26, 1:30 AM CST
Where: Dunklin forecast zone
Property damage: $1,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 36.106, -90.166 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Several roads were flooded.

What these are

Flood: Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Missouri in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Missouri, March 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: 5286511.