6 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 Jun 6, 2:59 AM EST, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED DATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 359 AM EDT THU JUN 6 2002 SURFACE ANALYSIS INDICATES COLD FRONT JUST SOUTH AND EAST OF FA. RADAR IMAGERY SHOWS SHOWERS ACROSS MUCH OF FA. CURRENT FCST OF CHANCE POPS IN WAPAK WITH LIKELY CVG AND CMH AND CATEGORICAL IN PMH LOOK GOOD. WILL MAKE ISSUE TIME DECISION ON DAY SINCE SHOWERS HAVE GOOD COVERAGE NOW AND MORE ON THE WAY FROM SW INDIANA. ETA HAS PCPN ALL DAY SOUTH OF WAPAK BUT AVN AND NGM DRIER. WILL HAVE MAINLY MORNING WORDING IN THESE ZONES. WILL LET FLOOD WATCH EXPIRE AT 4 AM. FWC GUIDANCE CAME IN MUCH LOWER THAN PREVIOUS FWC FOR TODAY. WILL TREND TO CURRENT FCST AS TEMP METHODS LOOK SLIGHTLY HIGHER. OBVIOUSLY...CLOUDS AND PCPN TIMING WILL DETERMINE TEMPS TODAY. THINKING THAT CLOUDS SHOULD SCT OUT BY LATE AFTERNOON TO EVENING NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST. REST OF GUIDANCE LOOKS REASONABLE AND CLOSE TO CURRENT FCST. ETA ABOUT 7 DEGREES COOLER THAN FWC AND MAV FOR FRIDAY NIGHT. WILL TREND CLOSE TO MAV. .ILN...NONE CENTER
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
6 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorms producing heavy rain moved across portions of southwest, south central and central Ohio during the morning hours. Many locations received two to three inches of rain, causing creeks to rise out of their banks and high water on roadways.
Thunderstorms producing heavy rain moved across portions of southwest, south central and central Ohio during the morning hours. Many locations received two to three inches of rain, causing creeks to rise out of their banks and high water on roadways.
Thunderstorms producing heavy rain moved across portions of southwest, south central and central Ohio during the morning hours. Many locations received two to three inches of rain, causing creeks to rise out of their banks and high water on roadways.
Thunderstorms producing heavy rain moved across portions of southwest, south central and central Ohio during the morning hours. Many locations received two to three inches of rain, causing creeks to rise out of their banks and high water on roadways.
Thunderstorms producing heavy rain moved across portions of southwest, south central and central Ohio during the morning hours. Many locations received two to three inches of rain, causing creeks to rise out of their banks and high water on roadways.
Thunderstorms producing heavy rain moved across portions of southwest, south central and central Ohio during the morning hours. Many locations received two to three inches of rain, causing creeks to rise out of their banks and high water on roadways.
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, 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: 5304380, 5304382, 5304381, 5304383, 5304384, 5304385.