1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. 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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 28, 2:10 AM CST, 24 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 310 AM CDT SUN APR 28 2002 RADAR TRENDS THIS MORNING SHOW SEVERE STORMS IN A BROKEN LINE BISECTING THE REGION AS A VIGOROUS SFC LOW APPROACHED THE GREAT LAKES. A COLD FRONT WAS POSITIONED ACROSS CENTRAL MO AND CENTRAL IL AND MOVING RAPIDLY EAST. THE SYSTEM WILL DEPART THE AREA RAPIDLY THIS MORNING...WITH A LINGERING CHC OF PRECIP IN THE ERN SECTOR. HIGH PRES WILL BUILD RAPIDLY IN THRU MON. MODELS IN DECENT AGREEMENT WITH THE NEXT WX MAKER...A GREAT LAKES S/W AND ATTENDANT SFC COLD FRONT ON MON NITE WHICH WILL AFFECT THE NRN HALF OF THE FCST AREA. LIS ARE POSITIVE WITH THIS FEATURE...THEREFORE SHOWERS WILL BE MENTIONED. RIGHT ON THE HEELS OF THAT...ISENTROPIC LIFT DEVELOPS LATE TUE NIGHT BEFORE A SFC LOW DEVELOPS IN THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WED. THIS LOW IS PROGGED TO MOVE ACROSS THE FA WED NIGHT/EARLY THU...WITH THUNDER POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY IN THE SOUTH...SUPPORTED BY NEG LIS. NEW MRF DEPICTS MORE WAA/ISENTROPIC LIFT IN ADVANCE OF A LARGE NRN STREAM S/W LATE THU (DAY5) BUT AT BEST THE SOUTHERNMOST TIER OF COUNTIES MAY BE AFFECTED...WILL LEAVE OUT OF FCST FOR NOW. STRONG HIGH PRES SHOULD CLEAR THE SKIES DAY6 AND DAY7 FOR THE CENTRAL U.S. FWC/MAV TEMPS IN FAIR AGREEMENT AND WILL FOLLOW. .PAH...NONE. DB
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
223 AM CDT SUN APR 28 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0127 AM DONGOLA IL TORNADO
04/28/02 UNION DAMAGE REPORTED BETWEEN
MILL CREEK AND DONGOLA.
NUMEROUS DAMAGE TO
TRAILERS WITH MANY
INJURIES...NUMBER
UNKNOWN.REPORTED BY UNION
COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE .PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
224 AM CDT SUN APR 28 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0109 AM GALATIA IL 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/28/02 SALINE
0111 AM ALBION IL 60 MPH WIND GUST
04/28/02 EDWARDS ALSO PEA SIZE HAIL.
0112 AM BUCKNER IL FUNNEL CLOUD
04/28/02 FRANKLIN REPORTED NEAR
BUCKNER...MOVING
NORTHEAST TOWARD WEST
CITY AND BENTON AREA. NO
DAMAGE REPORTED AT THIS
TIME. REPORT FROM
FRANKLIN COUNTY
0134 AM IN WIND DAMAGE
04/28/02 GIBSON COUNTY-WIDE. MULTIPLE
TREES DOWN. 1 TREE DOWN
IN VEHICLE. 1 OUT
BUILDING DESTROYED ON
HIGHWAY 41 NEAR TOYOTA
PLANT. REPORTS SPANNED
FROM 134 TO 144 AM.
0232 AM IL 70 MPH WIND GUST
04/28/02 MASSAC REPORTED BY SPOTTER 1
MILE SOUTH OF JOHNSON
COUNTY LINE IN MASSAC
COUNTY ON INTERSTATE 24.
HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION
SIGNS BLOWN DOWN.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
238 AM CDT SUN APR 28 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0109 AM GALATIA IL TORNADO
04/28/02 SALINE POSSIBLE TORNADO.
***UPDATE*** 2 BRICK
HOMES WITH ROOFS GONE AND
WALLS COLLAPSED IN
GALATIA. REPORT RELAYED
BY WSIL-TV.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
248 AM CDT SUN APR 28 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0141 AM CYPRESS IL TORNADO
04/28/02 JOHNSON TIME APPROXIMATE.
SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE
REPORTED FROM CYPRESS TO
JUST SOUTH OF VIENNA.
(TYPE/EXTENT UNKNOWN).
TREES BLOCKING ROAD TO
LOCATION.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
303 AM CDT SUN APR 28 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0100 AM HERRIN IL 60 MPH WIND GUST
04/28/02 WILLIAMSON 2 MILES SOUTH OF HERRIN.
REPORT FROM OFF DUTY NWS
EMPLOYEE.
0100 AM HERRIN IL 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/28/02 WILLIAMSON 2 MILES SOUTH OF HERRIN.
REPORT FROM OFF DUTY NWS
EMPLOYEE.
0110 AM CULP IL WIND DAMAGE
04/28/02 WILLIAMSON TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
TRAINED SPOTTER.
0154 AM OAKLAND CITY IN WIND DAMAGE
04/28/02 GIBSON TREES DOWN. 60 MPH WINDS.
REPORTED BY TRAINED
SPOTTER.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
326 AM CDT SUN APR 28 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0141 AM CYPRESS IL TORNADO
04/28/02 JOHNSON POSSIBLE TORNADO.
NUMEROUS TREES COMPLETELY
BLOCKING ILLINOIS ROUTE
37...7 TO 8 MILES SW OF
VIENNA NEAR CYPRESS.
0205 AM GOLCONDA IL TORNADO
04/28/02 POPE POSSIBLE TORNADO. 1 HOUSE
DESTROYED. ROOF OF
NEIGHBORS HOUSE 1/2 MILE
NORTH OF GOLCONDA. TREES
DOWN AND MAIN POWER LINES
DOWN.
0255 AM PROVIDENCE KY TORNADO
04/28/02 WEBSTER POSSIBLE TORNADO. SEVERAL
HOMES DAMAGED AND TREES
DOWN. REPORTED BY DES.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A mobile home was overturned in Sacramento. A tree fell on a house, and a carport was damaged in Island. Power lines and trees were down in Livermore.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kentucky in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, April 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: 5292491.