1 funnel cloud, 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 Apr 24, 2:15 PM CST, 3 hours 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 315 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002 WILL KEEP DISCUSSION SHORT DUE TO SVR WX AND GRID TRANSFER PROBLEMS IN IFPS. CURRENT FCST WILL TREND SVR POTENTIAL EWD THROUGH CWA THROUGH 03Z. THREAT SHOULD DIMINISH MARKEDLY FROM 03Z TO 06Z...AS FROPA MOVES EAST OF FCST AREA. GIVE HIGH PWS...SUSPECT LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE A THREAT WITH THE SCATTERED WIND/HAIL DAMAGE POTENTIAL. AFTER TONIGHT...I WILL KEEP MENTION OF SHWRS ONLY FOR FRIDAY...WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY. I INCREASED POP FOR MONDAY INTO TUESDAY PCPN EVENT...AS MEDIUM RANGE ENSEMBLES STILL SHOW A FOCUSED BOUNDARY AND LIFT OVER THE AREA. ALTHOUGH A SMALL CHANCE OF PCPN IS POSSIBLE ON WEDNESDAY...WILL KEEP IT DRY AT THIS TIME. FOR MAX/MIN TEMPS...WENT SLIGHTLY WARMER THAN MAV GUIDANCE IN SHORT TERM...THEN SLIGHTLY COOLER THAN MEX /NOW AVN EXTENDED/ MOS GUIDANCE. MANUALLY GENERATED ZONES SHOULD BE AVAILABLE NO LATER THAN 4 PM. CCF WILL DELAYED A LITTLE LONGER. .PAH...NONE. SMITH
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
517 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0510 PM 3N POPLAR BLUFF MO TORNADO
04/24/02 BUTLER TORNADO ON THE GROUND
REPORTED BY STATE
POLICE.
0513 PM EQUALITY IL TORNADO
04/24/02 GALLATIN REPORTED BY SPOTTER AND
FIRE DEPARTMENT
440 PM EQUALITY IL 2.50 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 GALLATIN REPORTED BY FIRE
DEPARTMENT
0516 PM IN 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 VANDERBURGH DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL
NEAR EVANSVILLE. REPORTED
BY EMA.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
522 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0456 PM HIGHWAY 67 MO 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 BUTLER DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY EM
0525 PM DUQUOIN IL 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 PERRY REPORTED BY ESDAPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
535 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0532 PM 3W SHAWNEETOWN IL FUNNEL CLOUD
04/24/02 GALLATIN REPORTED BY STATE POLICE.
ALONG ROUTE 13...3 MILES
EAST OF ROUTE 1.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
553 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0546 PM STANLEY KY 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 DAVIESS REPORTED BY EMA.
0535 PM 3W DUDLEY MO TORNADO
04/24/02 BUTLER REPORTED BY STATE POLICE.
TOUCHED DOWN THEN WENT
BACK UP
0536 PM GORDONVILLE MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 CAPE GIRARDEAU REPORTED BY CAPE
GIRARDEAU MEDIA
0538 PM 4N ZION KY 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 HENDERSON REPORTED BY PUBLICPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
600 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0559 PM 1E FISK MO 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 STODDARD REPORTED BY EM
0559 PM 3SW DEXTER MO FUNNEL CLOUD
04/24/02 STODDARD REPORTED BY EM
0602 PM LIVERMORE KY 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 MCLEAN REPORTED BY SPOTTERPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
620 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0614 PM ADVANCE MO 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 STODDARD REPORTED BY SPOTTERThe Paducah radar (KPAH), 107 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:39 UTC.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
The funnel cloud was observed near the northern city limits of Dexter, at the junction of Highway 25 and U.S. Route 60.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, 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: 5292198.