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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 10, 2:00 PM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 200 PM CST SUN NOV 10 2002 LINE OF SEVERE STORMS CONTINUES TO EVOLVE OVER WEST PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST REGION EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...AND SCATTERED CELLS ARE ALSO GROWING OUT AHEAD OF THIS LINE IN SOUTHERN EXTREME WESTERN KY AND SW INDIANA. PLEASE REFER TO SPC DICUSSIONS FOR THE LATEST INFO ON THIS SEVERE STORM/TORNADO THREAT. MAIN FORECAST CONCERN WILL BE WITH THE TIMING OF THE SEVERE WEATHER/COLD FRONT THIS EVENING. BASED ON LATEST RUC AND RADAR TRENDS...LOOKS NOW AS THOUGH WE WILL AT LEAST NEED TO MENTION STORMS EARLY TONIGHT OVER THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF THE FORECAST REGION...ESPECIALLY OVER WRN KY AND SW INDIANA. WILL INCLUDE EXPLICIT MENTION OF SEVERE STORMS AND WILL CONSIDER MENTION OF TORNADOES POSSIBLE. STORM THREAT SHOULD BE OVER SOUTHEAST ZONES SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET. LOOKS MOSTLY DRY NEXT FEW DAYS...BUT WITH MAIN H50 TROF HANGING BACK WEST OF THE REGION TIL LATER TUESDAY...NOT TOO OPTIMISTIC ON THE AMOUNT OF SUNSHINE...ESPECIALLY TUESDAY. NEXT SHORT WAVE AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT STILL ON TRACK FOR LATER IN THE WORK WEEK. CURRENT TIMING TIMING OF THURSDAY NIGHT INGOT FRI IS SUPPORTED BY LATEST GFM RUN. WILL CONTINUE CHANCE OF SHOWERS DUE TO EXPECTED UPPER DYNAMICS...BUT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE RETURN LOOKS TO MODEST AT BEST. WILL NOT STRAY TOO FAR FROM THE MAV MOS TEMPS NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. .PAH...NONE.
ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-111100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 400 PM CST SUN NOV 10 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN KENTUCKY...THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL REGION...AND SPENCER COUNTY INDIANA UNTIL 9 PM. A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS WESTERN KENTUCKY THIS EVENING. STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE THE MAIN THREATS WITH STORMS IN THIS LINE. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE STILL POSSIBLE. THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS QUITE UNSTABLE ACROSS THE WATCH AREA...AND WINDS ALOFT ARE FAVORABLE FOR ORGANIZED SEVERE STORMS. THE COLD FRONT HAS PASSED THROUGH SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...MOST OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA...SO THE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS IN THOSE AREAS HAS ENDED. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION HAS BEEN REQUESTED IN THE TORNADO WATCH AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. YORK
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
338 PM CST SUN NOV 10 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0331 PM OWENSBORO KY 0.75 INCH HAIL
11/10/02 DAVIESS REPORTED BY KENTUCKY
STATE POLICEILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>087-MOZ076-086-087-100-102215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 354 PM CST SUN NOV 10 2002 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 743 ISSUED EARLIER FOR MUCH OF EXTREME SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...AND A SMALL PORTION OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA HAS BEEN CANCELLED... ALL OF THE STRONG STORMS HAVE NOW MOVED EAST OF THE REGION AND NO ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
356 PM CST SUN NOV 10 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0332 PM OWENSBORO KY FUNNEL CLOUD
11/10/02 DAVIESS FUNNEL CLOUDS WEREW
REPORTED BY DAVIESS
COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE ON
BOTH THE EAST AND WEST
SIDE OF OWENSBORO AND
ALSO NEAR ST. JOSEPH
0335 PM OWENSBORO KY WIND DAMAGE
11/10/02 DAVIESS BARN...TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN ON THE WEST
SIDE OF OWENSBORO
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT
0340 PM NEAR ELLINGTON KY 0.75 INCH HAIL
11/10/02 DAVIESS REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT
0345 PM MACEO KY WIND DAMAGE
11/10/02 DAVIESS CARPORT WAS FLIPPED ONTO
CAR REPORTED BY FIRE
DEPARTMENTILZ090-091-094-KYZ001>013-015>017-020>022-MOZ112-102300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 406 PM CST SUN NOV 10 2002 ...ISOLATED GUSTS 40 TO 50 MPH POSSIBLE WITH LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS... AT 4 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MPH...WAS LOCATED FROM FULTON AND MAYFIELD...ONWARD TO MADISONVILLE...MOVING EAST 40 MPH. AN OUTFLOW OF WINDS...KNOWN AS A GUST FRONT...HAD DEVELOPED AHEAD OF THE STORMS. MOST OF THE WINDS ALONG THIS GUST FRONT WILL AVERAGE BETWEEN 30 TO 40 MPH...WITH ISOLATED WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MPH POSSIBLE. THE STRONG WINDS AND STORMS WILL LIKELY REACH A CADIZ TO GREENVILLE KENTUCKY LINE BY 5 PM. THESE WINDS WILL TOSS AROUND LOOSE OBJECTS OR LIGHTLY ANCHORED STRUCTURES OUTDOORS...BREAK SMALL TREE LIMBS...OR FALL WEAKENED TREES. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
412 PM CST SUN NOV 10 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0315 PM WINSLOW IN WIND DAMAGE
11/10/02 PIKE REPORTED BY PIKE COUNTY
SHERIFFS OFFICE - ONE
TREE DOWN JUST SOUTH OF
WINSLOW
0315 PM VELPEN IN WIND DAMAGE
11/10/02 PIKE REPORTED BY PIKE COUNTY
SHERIFFS OFFICE - ONE
TREE DOWN JUST SOUTH OF
VELPENPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
445 PM CST SUN NOV 10 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0340 PM OWENSBORO KY WIND DAMAGE
11/10/02 DAVIESS PART OF ROOFS SHINGLES
BLOWN OFF...DAMAGE TO A
CHURCH STEEPLE...TREE
FELL ON HOUSE...REPORTED
BY TRAINED SPOTTERThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
On Highway 444 near Hamlin, a few trees were pushed over onto power lines. In a forested area on the north side of Hamlin, about a dozen trees were blown down.
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, 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: 5323086.