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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 22, 8:40 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 840 PM CST TUE JAN 22 2002 HAVE ALREADY UPDATED ONCE TO REMOVE EVENING TEMPERATURE WORDING...AS TEMPS WERE BELOW FORECAST MINS...AND HAD LEVELED OFF. UNDOUBTEDLY... WILL HAVE TO UPDATE AGAIN...AS MUCH OF PRECIPITATION WILL MOVE OUT OF CWA IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. PORTIONS OF NE AR HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED AN INCH OF RAIN. COULD BE A WET COUPLE OF DAYS. 10 .MEG...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A few streets were flooded.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, January 2002
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