Name: Damaging Wind in Indiana, July 29, 2002
Start: 2002-07-29T17:30
End: 2002-07-29T17:30
Location: Indiana

Where it happened

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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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 29, 1:00 PM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 1:00 PM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
200 PM CDT MON JUL 29 2002

ON THE WX MAPS...S/W TROF...WITH BEST UPPER JET DYNAMICS IN THE
UPPER MS VALLEY...CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS THE ERN U.S. THIS
AFTERNOON. 30KT 850MB SWRLY INFLOW...DEWPOINTS IN THE LOWER 70S...
AND INSOLATION IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON HELPED TO GENERATE A LINE OF
SHWS IN THE MODERATELY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE JUST AHEAD OF THE CLOUD
SHIELD ASSOCIATED WITH THE APPROACHING TROF. THE LINE OF SHWS...WITH
SOME THUNDER INCLUDED...WERE CONFINED TO S IL IN THE EARLY STAGES.
88D ALSO INDICATED SOME CONVECTION OCCURRING E OF THE LBL.

MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH DEPICTING THE MOVEMENT OF THE S/W AS
IT SINKS SE THRU TUE. CHCS OF PRECIP IN THE OVERNIGHT HOURS SHOULD
BE DIMINISHED IN THE NW PART OF THE FCST AREA AS THE S/W WILL BE
MOSTLY SE OF THERE...MAY STILL PUT A SLIGHT CHC IN. ELSEWHERE...
WITHOUT SFC HEATING...CHCS OF RAIN WILL BE RATHER SMALL. SPRINGLIKE
20-25 MPH SFC WINDS WILL SUBSIDE TONIGHT AS THE PRESSURE GRADIENT
RELAXES. THE WEAK SFC BOUNDARY SHOULD WASH OUT NEAR THE AR/TN BORDER
ON TUE...BUT A UPPER SHEAR ZONE AND LINGERING MOISTURE WILL STILL
EXIST IN THE SE PORTION OF THE FCST AREA TUE AFTN...JUSTIFYING A
SMALL CHC OF PRECIP THERE FOR THAT PERIOD.

NRN STREAM BECOMES MORE ZONAL FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK WHILE THE FA
WILL BE UNDER A HIGH PRESSURE/LIGHT WINDS REGIME. 12Z AVN RUN NO
LONGER DEPICTS THE DOUBTFUL PRECIP BULLSEYE FOR WED...MORE DRY WX IS
EXPECTED THRU DAY7 AS RIDGE BUILDS E.

NUMERICAL GUIDANCE SHOWS DIFFERENCES ESPECIALLY FOR THE WED
HIGHS...WITH FWC TENDING TO BE WARMEST. WILL CONTINUE WITH 90 TO 95
WORDING THRU WED...AND MAY COOL TUE NIGHT POST-FRONTAL LOWS IN THE
SOUTH A CAT.

.PAH...NONE.

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The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:31 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Spencer

When: July 29, 5:30 PM CST
Where: Spencer County, Fulda
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 38.117, -86.833

Several trees were blown down over eastern portions of the county.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

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

The same day elsewhere

More

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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: 5302179.