Damaging Wind in Kentucky, March 29, 2002

Name: Damaging Wind in Kentucky, March 29, 2002
Start: 2002-03-29T18:23
End: 2002-03-29T18:23
Location: Kentucky

March 29, 2002 · NWS PAH · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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.

What forecasters said that day

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, 4 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 2:00 PM CST, 4 hours 23 minutes before

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 29, 4:53 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
453 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0451 PM    1W DRAFFENVILLE           KY   0.75 INCH HAIL
03/29/02   MARSHALL

Local storm report, Mar 29, 4:59 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
459 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0450 PM    2N WINGO                  KY   0.75 INCH HAIL
03/29/02   GRAVES                         REPORTED BY GRAVES CO
                                          DES

Local storm report, Mar 29, 5:14 PM CST, 1 hour 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
514 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0513 PM    STELLA                    KY   0.75 INCH HAIL
03/29/02   CALLOWAY                       CALLOWAY CO SKYWARN

Local storm report, Mar 29, 5:17 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
517 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0511 PM    1SW TRI CITY              KY   0.75 INCH HAIL
03/29/02   GRAVES                         REPORTED BY GRAVES CO
                                          DES

Special weather statement, Mar 29, 5:28 PM CST, 55 minutes before

KYZ001>003-006>013-015>017-019>022-300200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
528 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 48 HAS BEEN CANCELLED ACROSS A FEW MORE
COUNTIES OF WESTERN KENTUCKY...

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE STILL UNDER TORNADO WATCH 48.

IN WESTERN KENTUCKY...

CALLOWAY...TRIGG...MUHLENBERG...CHRISTIAN AND TODD.

Local storm report, Mar 29, 5:39 PM CST, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
539 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0120 PM    ST MEINRAD                IN   WIND DAMAGE
03/29/02   SPENCER                        SPOTTER REPORTED TURKEY
                                          HOUSE AND SOME FARM
                                          BUILDINGS DAMAGED. TIME
                                          APPROXIMATE.

0120 PM    SANTA CLAUS               IN   WIND DAMAGE
03/29/02   SPENCER                        SPOTTER REPORTED TREES
                                          DOWN AND TOPS BROKEN OFF
                                          STREET LIGHTS. TIME
                                          APPROXIMATE.

0120 PM    1W LINCOLN CITY           IN   WIND DAMAGE
03/29/02   SPENCER                        SPOTTER REPORTED TWO
                                          TREES DOWN. TIME
                                          APPROXIMATE.

The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Todd

When: March 29, 6:23 PM CST
Where: Todd County, Guthrie
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 36.650, -87.167

Large tree limbs were blown down.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Kentucky in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Kentucky, March 2002

Sources

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: 5280544.