1 hail, 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 Mar 29, 2:00 PM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 200 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002 PM CONVECTION/SVR WX ASSOCIATED WITH FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDING ACROSS NRN PERIPHERY OF PAH FA. AIRMASS FRONT IS ENCOUNTERING IS WARM/MOIST AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE...WITH LAPS SHOWING EARLY PM LIS TO -2/-3. STILL AWAITING BREAKDOWN OF CAP FOR SURFACE BASED ACTIVITY...WHICH APPEARS TO BE STARTING AS LAPS 15-18Z TREND SHOWS SURFACE BASED CAPES INCREASING FM 300 TO 500 TO 600 J/KG. NEAR TERM CHALLENGE IS POPS ASSOCIATED WITH INCOMING FRONT. ALL MODELS HAVE SYSTEM THRU FA BY/SHORTLY AFT 00Z. WL WAIT TIL LAST MINUTE FOR COUNTY BREAK-OUT...ESPECIALLY REGARDING WATCH STATUS...BUT ANTICIPATE LINGERING SMALL EARLY EVENING CHC POP FOR DEPARTING FRONT SE SECTIONS. MODELS DISAGREE ON VIGOR OF PUSHING FRONT AND ITS ASSOCIATED MOISTURE THRU FA...WITH NGM LEAST AGGRESSIVE/ETA MOST AND AVN IN BETWEEN. WITH FLOW ALOFT BECOMING WLY-WNWLY...AM NOT TOO CONVINCED ON LONG-LIVED CLEAR-OUT...AND THUS WL TOE A MID-GROUND AND MAINTAIN SOME AT LEAST SOME CLOUDS THRU THE NEXT COUPLE PERIODS. BASICALLY EXPECT MOCLOUDY EARLY NIGHT...PTCLDY LATE NIGHT/EARLY SAT...AND THEN MOCLOUDY AGAIN LATE SAT-SAT NIGHT...BUT WL CHOOSE ONE OR THE OTHER DEPENDING ON WHERE THE GROUPING IS. NEXT CHALLENGE IS SAT NIGHT-SUN CHC PCPN...AND SIMILAR MODEL DISCREPANCY IS MAINTAINED. WHILE THE FLOW PATTERN SUGGESTS CONTINUED CLOUDS AM NOT AS CONVINCED ON THE PCPN CHC...AS EVEN THE MID ROAD AVN KEEPS VORT ENERGY AND MOST QPF TO THE SOUTH. WL THEREFORE ELIMINATE POPS NRN PERIPHERY BUT MAINTAIN CHC CAT POPS FOR THE SOUTH...PARTICULARLY SE PTNS...AS SURFACE SYSTEM EJECTS NE FM LWR MS VALLEY. NEW EXTENDED MODEL GUIDANCE NARROWS THE PCPN CHC TO TUE BUT BROAD UPR TROFFING KEEPS CLOUDS/COOLER WX IN ANOTHER DAY...MODERATING SOME TOWARD THE END OF THE WEEK AS UPR TROF MOVES EAST AND SURFACE RIDGING COMES IN BEHIND IT. NOT A WHOLE LOT OF MODEL DISCREPANCY ON TEMPS SAVE FOR THE OBVIOUS LEANS GIVEN THEIR RESPECTIVE PREFERENCES ON THE SAT NIGHT-SUN PCPN CHC (NGM COLDER/WETTER). WL ADJUST FCST ACCORDINGLY THERE (SAT NIGHT-SUN)...MORE IN DIRECTION OF AVN BASED NOS...OTHERWISE ALL GUIDANCE GENERALLY IN AGREEMENT. .PAH...NONE. HUMPHREY
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
126 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0121 PM DALE IN 0.88 INCH HAIL
03/29/02 SPENCER
0121 PM GENTRYVILLE IN 0.75 INCH HAIL
03/29/02 SPENCER
0119 PM GENTRYVILLE IN FUNNEL CLOUD
03/29/02 SPENCER REPORT FROM SPOTTERS
0127 PM MARIAH HILL IN 0.50 INCH HAIL
03/29/02 SPENCERILZ083-086-087-089>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ110>112-114- 300200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 312 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 48 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST FOR WESTERN KENTUCKY...SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... MUCH OF THE TORNADO WATCH 46 AREA HAS BEEN INCORPORATED INTO TORNADO WATCH 48. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE UNDER TORNADO WATCH 48. IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... STODDARD...SCOTT...NEW MADRID AND MISSISSIPPI. IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... WHITE...SALINE...GALLATIN...JOHNSON...POPE...HARDIN...ALEXANDER ...PULASKI AND MASSAC. IN WESTERN KENTUCKY... BALLARD...CARLISLE...HICKMAN...FULTON...MCCRACKEN...GRAVES ...LIVINGSTON...MARSHALL...CALLOWAY...CRITTENDEN...LYON...TRIGG ...UNION...HENDERSON...WEBSTER...HOPKINS...CALDWELL...DAVIESS ...MCLEAN...MUHLENBERG...CHRISTIAN...TODD. IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA... GIBSON...PIKE...POSEY...VANDERBURGH...WARRICK AND SPENCER.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
404 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0357 PM WEST PADUCAH KY 0.75 INCH HAIL
03/29/02 MCCRACKEN REPORTED AT PAH NWS
OFFICEPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
407 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0356 PM LA CENTER KY 0.75 INCH HAIL
03/29/02 BALLARD HAIL REPORTED AT BALLARD
COUNTY COUNTRY CLUBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
410 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0409 PM PADUCAH KY 0.75 INCH HAIL
03/29/02 MCCRACKEN REPORTED BY MCCRACKEN CO
DES AT CARSON PARKPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
431 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0408 PM BARDWELL KY 0.75 INCH HAIL
03/29/02 CARLISLE REPORTED BY CARLISLE
COUNTY DESThe Paducah radar (KPAH), 30 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:37 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Nickel size hail was reported near the 19-mile marker on Interstate 24. Dime size hail fell near Draffenville.
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, March 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: 5280545.