1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 27, 1:00 PM EST, 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 200 PM EDT MON MAY 27 2002 VISIBLE SATELLITE INDICATES TOWERING CUMULUS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHERN KENTUCKY. RADAR INDICATES SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF THE OHIO RIVER...AS WELL AS A COUPLE OF NEW ECHO RETURNS OVER CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THESE CONVECTIVE SHOWERS WILL LIKELY INCREASE IN COVERAGE THROUGH 6 PM AND ARE DUE SOLELY TO INSTABILITY...WHICH IS GREATER IN SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA BECAUSE OF SLIGHTLY COOLER MID-LEVEL TEMPERATURES. WILL PUT SCATTERED WORDING IN FORECAST THROUGH THE EVENING. WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING...THESE STORMS WILL DISSIPATE QUICKLY LATER THIS EVENING. FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS...A MID-SUMMER LIKE WEATHER PATTERN WILL BECOME ESTABLISHED OVER THE OHIO VALLEY. WITH DEWPOINTS RUNNING IN THE MID 60S NIGHTS WILL BE QUITE MILD...WITH PATCHY LIGHT FOG OR MIST IN THE MORNING. MOSTLY CLEAR MORNINGS WILL GIVE WAY TO INCREASING CLOUDS BY AFTERNOON. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO DEVELOP OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF AFTERNOONS...AND DISSIPATE AFTER DARK. ON THURSDAY...A RIDGE WILL BUILD OVER THE NORTHERN ROCKIES. IN RESPONSE A DISTURBANCE OVER THE NORTHERN MIDWEST WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AND CARVE A TROUGH OVER THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES BY SATURDAY. FOR OUR CWA...A TRAILING COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS LATE THURSDAY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SLIGHTLY COOLER AND DRIER AIR WILL MOVE IN FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. .SDF...NONE. DENMAN
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:52 UTC.
1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail covered the ground. An above ground swimming pool was destroyed.
Trees were downed at Main and Mill Streets, on the 100 block of Fairmount Drive, and on the 300 block of Green Road.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, May 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: 5300043, 5300044.