3 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 31, 7:50 PM EST, 4 hours 31 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
750 PM EST THU JAN 31 2002
LTST SFC ANLYS SHWG LOW PRES OVR W CNTRL IL WITH WRM FNT XTNDG EAST
INTO CENTRAL OHIO. FNT HAD BEEN SAGGING SLOWLY S THRU LATE
AFTN/ERLY EVNG BUT LOOKS TO FINALLY BE MAKING A PUSH BACK TO THE N.
STEADY RAIN HAS BEEN FALLING TO THE N OF THE FNT ACRS NRN THIRD OF
FA THIS EVNG BUT RAINFALL RATES GNRLY RMNG IN THE .1 TO .2 INCH/HR
RANGE WITH NO FLOODING PROBLEMS RPTD YET. A LTL BETTER PCPN FALLING
BACK ACRS IND AND THIS SHUD PUSH E INTO NRN PORTIONS OF FA THRU THE
OVRNGT. THINK PCPN WL GNRLLY RMN BLO FFG VALUES BUT WL HANG ON TO
FFA THRU THE OVRNGT HRS WITH STILL SOME DECENT RAIN PSBL.
MEANWHILE...MORE CONVECTIVE TYPE PCPN OUT AHD OF CDFNT MOVG ACRS SRN
IL INTO SRN IND AND THIS SHUD AFFECT SRN FA LATER TNGT. CNRT FCST
HAS PRETTY GOOD HANDLE ON THINGS. WL TAKE A LOOK AND WINDS BEFORE
ZONE ISSUANCE AND MAKE ANY NEEDED ADJUSTMENTS DEPENDING ON FRONTAL
POSITION. WL ALSO INDCT LOW WORDING IN THE FAR N AS TMPS HAV
ACTUALLY RISEN TO ARND 40.
.ILN...
IN...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 600 AM EST FRIDAY INZ050-058>059-
066-073>075-080.
KY...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 600 AM EST FRIDAY KYZ089>093.
OH...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 600 AM EST FRIDAY OHZ026-034>035-
042>046-051>056-060>065-070>072-074-077>078.
LOTTThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Roadways were flooded throughout town, with reports of garbage floating down a couple of streets.
There were reports of high water on roadways throughout the county.
Roads remained flooded in town. Grand Lake St. Mary's went out of its banks just southwest of town, causing some minor flooding.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Ohio in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, February 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: 5281575, 5281576, 5281577.