7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 10, 1:05 PM EST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 105 PM EST SUN NOV 10 2002 ...MDT/HIGH RISK SVR FOR LMK CWA INTO TONIGHT... SIG SVR WX EPISODE APPEARS IMMINENT FOR LMK CWA, WITH BKN LINE OF SVR CONVECTION DEVELOPING OVER IN/IL/MO ATTM. NEARLY STEADY SWLY 35-40KT FLOW AT 900MB WILL INTERCHANGE OVER OUR REGION WITH 70-80KT 500MB FLOW ASSOC WITH APPROACHING JET STREAK, SIG INCR SHEAR VALUES. 12KM ETA BUFKIT FCST HODOGRAPHS SUGGEST INITIAL PERIOD OF SUPERCELLULAR CONVECTIVE MODE THIS AFTERNOON, THEN TRANSITIONING TO MORE OF A LINEAR MODE AS SFC TROF APPROACHES CWA. ALREADY SEEING SOME ISOLATED LEADING EDGE CELLS OVER SERN MO/SRN IL, SUGGESTING SUPERCELL THREAT MAY BE REALIZED. FORWARD PROPAGATING MESO-BETA ELEMENTS MAY HAVE VECTORS NEARING 230/85KT WITHIN LARGER SCALE LINEAR SYSTEM, WHICH SHOULD HAVE A QUICK EAST MOTION PER 700MB ETA OMEGA FIELDS. ONLY LMTG FACTOR (FOR TIME BEING) OVER CWA IS A SMALL CAPPING INVERSION 750MB, INDICATED BY ARRIVING A/C FROM ANCHORAGE INTO SDF AT 15Z. RUC FCSTS THIS 750MB PRE FRONTAL WARM PLUME TO RESIDE OVER CWA TIL 20-21Z, THEN COLLAPSE AT STG FRONTAL DYNAMICS AND INSTABILITY PUSHES INTO CWA. ANOTHER INTERESTING THING TO NOTE IS RUC/ETA FCSTING SUBTLE SFC WAVE TO DEVELOP ALONG FRONT OVER WRN TN 00Z/MON, WHICH WOULD ACT TO ENHANCE LOW-LEVEL HELICITIES, SUPERCELLULAR POTENTIAL, AND OVERALL CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT DOWN IN SRN KY FOR A PERIOD OF TIME. WIND DAMAGE AND ISOLATED TORNADOES LOOK TO BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. PER CURRENT RADAR TRENDS, SOME POST FRONTAL STRATIFORM PCPN WILL LIKELY FOLLOW DURING OVERNIGHT HOURS. TS COMPLEX SHOULD PUSH EWD AND EXIT LMK CWA IN THE WEE HOURS MONDAY MORNING. KEEPING IT BRIEF HERE, NEXT WX STORY IS SFC LOW DEVELOPING ACROSS SERN CONUS TUE AM, WITH POSITIVE FEEDBACK RESPONSE DEEPENING MID-LEVEL TROF OVER CWA. LOOKS TO BE ONE OF THOSE COOL, RAW, AND CLOUDY DAYS TUE WITH NLY SFC FLOW. GIVEN FCST L/RS WITHIN TROF AXIS, SOME SPRINKLES NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION, BUT WILL LEAVE ZFP DRY FOR NOW. CLIPPER TYPE SFC LOW RACES ACROSS GREAT LAKES THU-FRI, WITH ATTENDANT CF FCST BY 12Z GFS TO SLIDE INTO LMK CWA DURING SAID PERIOD. DECENT DYNAMICS AND SOME MOISTURE SUGGEST CHCS OF PCPN OVER CWA. .SDF...NONE. XXV
INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-111200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1215 PM EST SUN NOV 10 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE... A POTENTIALLY VERY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION IS SETTING UP ACROSS SOUTHERN INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY TODAY WITH A MAJOR SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 64...WITH A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF THAT AREA. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT ACROSS SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ORGANIZE INTO A SQUALL LINE WHICH WILL MOVE IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. VERTICAL WIND SHEAR IN THE ATMOSPHERE IS SUPPORTIVE OF SUPERCELLS WHICH WILL ENHANCE THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. WITH SUFFICIENT LOW LEVEL TURNING OF THE WINDS...ISOLATED STRONG TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY IN THE HIGH RISK AREA ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY. PEOPLE IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA MUST REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES NOW AND HAVE A PLAN OF ACTION READY WHEN SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPS IN YOUR AREA. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR POSSIBLE WATCHES...WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. VLD
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Parts of State Road 64 were under water and impassible.
Water covered some roadways near Holland.
Thunderstorm gusts blew down six inch diameter trees.
Thunderstorm winds took the roofs off numerous houses. Many trees were downed. Marble size hail covered the ground.
Trees were downed.
Trees were downed.
Trees were downed in Jeffersonville, Clarksville, and Charlestown.
The roof was torn off a barn. Power lines and several trees were downed.
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, November 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: 5323219, 5323218, 5323217, 5323220, 5323221, 5323222, 5323223, 5323224, 5323225, 5323269, 5323270, 5323271, 5323272, 5323273.