1 tornado, 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 Apr 24, 2:15 PM CST, 2 hours 6 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
440 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0423 PM VAN BUREN MO TORNADO
04/24/02 CARTER SOUTH SIDE OF VAN BUREN.
TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN. WINDOWS BLOWN OUT.
REPORTED BY SHERIFF.
0439 PM 1E ELLSINORE MO TORNADO
04/24/02 CARTER TORNADO ON THE GROUND
REPORTED BY STATE
POLICE.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
451 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0448 PM MOUNT VERNON IN 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 POSEY REPORTED BY EVANSVILLE
EMAPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
456 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0456 PM BUFKIN IN 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 POSEY REPORTED BY STATE POLICE
0456 PM HIGHWAY 67 MO 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/24/02 BUTLER REPORTED BY EMPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
503 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0455 PM MO TORNADO
04/24/02 BUTLER REPORTED BY STATE POLICE
IN NORTHERN BUTLER. ON
THE GROUND ALONG HIGHWAY
417.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
513 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0509 PM 1S HENDRICKSON MO TORNADO
04/24/02 BUTLER TORNADO ON THE GROUND.
EASTBOUND ON HIGHWAY 67
AND O HIGHWAY. STRUCTURAL
DAMAGE WITH ROOFS OFF.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.The Paducah radar (KPAH), 140 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:18 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
The long-track tornado that crossed much of Carter and Butler Counties briefly touched down again near Rombauer. Numerous trees were down along the short damage track.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Missouri, 2002Warnings 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: 5292199.