9 hail, 7 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 Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 30, 7:45 PM CST, 1 hour earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 845 PM CDT TUE APR 30 2002 00Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWED A WARM FRONT EXTENDING FROM NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS, TO JUST SOUTH OF TUP, TO JUST SOUTH OF MGM. AIR MASS NORTH OF THIS FRONT IS ONLY MARGINALLY UNSTABLE, AND 00Z BNA SOUNDING WAS NOT IMPRESSIVE. HOWEVER, BLV AIR MASS IN THE MID STATE WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE LATER TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING, AS WARM FRONT LIFTS NORTHWARD. LATEST MSAS ANALYSIS SHOWED LIFTED INDICES THAT DROP FROM +1 AND +2 NORTH OF THE FRONT TO -4 TO -6 BEHIND IT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED THIS EVENING FROM SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI AND SOUTHWESTERN KENTUCKY, INTO MUCH OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. SOME OF THE STORMS WEST AND NORTH OF OUR CWA HAVE BEEN STRONG AND, BASED ON VIL DENSITY CALCULATIONS, HAVE BEEN CAPABLE OF PRODUCING AT LEAST SMALL HAIL. SUCH VIL DENSITIES SUGGEST WE WILL HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR HAIL PRODUCERS IN OUR CWA AS THE NIGHT WEARS ON. THIS IS ALREADY HANDLED IN WORDING OF CURRENT ZFP AND BELIEVE HIGH OVERNIGHT POPS ARE WORKING OUT QUITE WELL (THANK YOU, MR. DAYTIME FORECASTER). .BNA...NONE. DM
TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075>080-093>097-011030- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 706 PM CDT TUE APR 30 2002 ...SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE THROUGH THE NEXT 36 HOURS... A WARM FRONT WILL MOVE NORTH INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE LATE TONIGHT FROM CENTRAL ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI...PRODUCING NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE FRONT. AS THE ATMOSPHERE BECOMES VERY UNSTABLE IN VICINITY OF FRONTAL PASSAGE...THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL. THE WARM FRONT WILL THEN MOVE NORTH OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE BY THE MID MORNING HOURS ON WEDNESDAY...RESULTING IN A BREAK IN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. HOWEVER...VERY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN OVER THE MID STATE. WITH DAYTIME HEATING ON WEDNESDAY...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND RAPIDLY INTENSIFY. SOME STORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. WIND SHEAR WILL INCREASE BY WEDNESDAY EVENING...ENHANCING THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES. A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH MIDDLE TENNESSEE LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY...AGAIN INCREASING THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS POSSIBLE THROUGH THE NEXT 48 HOURS ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTER GROUPS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED. STAY TUNED FOR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS AND UPDATED FORECASTS AS THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION CONTINUES TO DEVELOP. 14 JBW
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 144 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:43 UTC.
9 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down and a home damaged south of U.S Highway 64, east of Waynesboro at Natchez Trace.
Spotter reported golf ball size hail at West Point Road and U.S Highway 64.
Spotter reported golf ball size hail on U.S. Highway 43.
Public report of quarter size hail.
Spotter reported hail about the size of a hen egg.
Hail the size of a hen egg was reported.
One house and one business had roof damage. 5 mobile homes damaged. A large tree fell on a mobile home and cut it in half.
10-12 trees were blown down around the county.
Dime size hail reported.
Spotter reported 2 large trees were blown down.
A few trees were blown down.
Dime size hail reported.
A few trees were blown down.
Golf ball size hail reported by spotter.
EMA reported 4 trees down and 5 power lines down around the county.
Law enforcement reported golf ball size hail near Compton Rd.
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
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: 5288284, 5288181, 5288280, 5288282, 5288281, 5288283, 5288294, 5288293, 5288285, 5288286, 5288292, 5288287, 5288291, 5288288, 5288289, 5288290.