1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 3, 2:43 PM CST, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 243 PM CST WED APR 3 2002 MOST OF THE CLOUDS HAVE MOVED OUT OF WEST TENNESSEE AND EAST ARKANSAS. REMAINING CLOUDS SHOULD LEAVE NORTH MISSISSIPPI BY TONIGHT. TEMPERATURES WILL DROP TO NEAR FREEZING OVER NORTHERN HALF OF FORECAST AREA SO WILL KEEP FREEZE WARNING IN FORECAST. QUIET WEATHER PATTERN FOR NEXT FEW DAYS UNTIL LATE SATURDAY NIGHT WHEN NEXT CHANCE OF RAIN WILL OCCUR. .MEG...FREEZE WARNING NORTH OF HARRISBURG AR TO DECATURVILLE TN LINE
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 112 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:01 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was damaged by a lightning strike. Fragments of the tree tore through the screen of a patio door.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, April 2002
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