1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 2, 3:35 PM EST, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 435 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002 A BIT MORE IN THE WAY OF STORMS TODAY. A FEW OF THEM HAVE PULSED SEVERE YIELDING LARGE HAIL. WILL EXPECT A REPEAT OF YESTERDAY WITH THE CONVECTION DYING OFF WITH LOSS OF HEATING THIS EVENING. SEE LITTLE CHANGE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS. WEAK FLOW AND LITTLE FORCING FOR PRECIP SEEN TOMORROW...BUT INSTABILITY SHOULD BE GREAT ENOUGH TO BREAK THE CAP AGAIN. SAME ON THURSDAY...EXCEPT THAT BY LATE IN THE DAY A BACK DOOR COLD FRONT WILL BE APPROACHING. THERE ARE DIFFERENCES IN TIMING/POSITION AMONG THE MODELS FOR THIS FRONT. THE ETA IS SLOWER AND TH AVN FASTER AND MORE PROGRESSIVE. THE ETA INITIALIZED THE NEARBY UPPER RIDGE TOO STRONG TODAY AND HOLDS ONTO IT A BIT STRONGER THAN THE AVN. WILL LEAN TOWARD THE AVN...BUT EVEN SO...CONFIDENCE IN THE HANDLING OF THE FRONT IS NOT HIGH. BASED ON LATEST GUIDANCE...WILL MAINTAIN CONTINUITY IN THE FORECAST AND KEEP IT DRY FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY. BUT CONFIDENCE IS STILL NOT HIGH. THERE IS UNCERTAINTY CONCERNING THE AMOUNT OF DRYING FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...AND ALSO WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF MOISTURE RETURN ON MONDAY. LOOKS LIKE NEXT COLD FRONT POSES A CHANCE OF PRECIP TUESDAY. THE OPERATIONAL 00Z AVN LOOKS TOO DEEP WITH AN EASTERN U.S. UPPER TROUGH ON TUESDAY...BUT THE ENSEMBLE DOES STILL SUPPORT A WEAKER TROUGH WITH AN ASSOCIATED SURFACE COLD FRONT ARRIVING TUESDAY. FOR TEMPS...WILL USE A COMPROMISE OF MAV AND FWC IN THE NEAR TERM. .JKL...NONE. HAL
KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-030000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 129 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002 ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN EASTERN KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT THERE IS A SMALL RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORM OF WET MICROBURSTS OVER MUCH OF KENTUCKY. THESE ARE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING A LARGE AMOUNT OF RAIN THAT ALSO ARE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THE THREAT EXISTS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. RESIDENTS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY LATER TODAY. GREIF
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON, KY
641 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0210 PM 2SE BILLOWS KY 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/02/02 LAUREL ALONG THE PULASKI AND
LAUREL COUNTY LINE REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
CEGPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON, KY
645 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0410 PM CLOVER BOTTOM KY .75 INCH HAIL
07/02/02 JACKSON REPORTED BY
SPOTTER
0415 PM 5NW JACKSON KY 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/02/02 BREATHITT REPORTED BY
PUBLIC
CEGThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
One tree was down in the town of Marrowbone and another tree was down in the Blackberry area, also near Marrowbone.
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, July 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: 5312133.