Flash Flood, Yancey
- When
- January 23, 1:00 PM EST to 3:00 PM EST
- Where
- Yancey County, Countywide
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.899, -82.308 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
A few creeks were reportedly flooding.
Flash Flood in North Carolina, January 23, 2002
1 flash 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.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 23, 11:14 AM EST, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 23, 11:14 AM EST, 1 hour 46 minutes before
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The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 103 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:58 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
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, January 23 to 24, 2002
- Tornado in Kentucky, January 23, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Alabama, January 23, 2002
- Wildfire and High Wind in California, January 23 to 24, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Arkansas, January 23 to 24, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, January 23, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, January 23 to 24, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, January 23 to 24, 2002
- Flooding in Illinois, January 23 to 24, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Tennessee, January 23, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, January 23, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Tennessee, January 23, 2002
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, January 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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5278976.