Name: Hail and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 26, 2002
Start: 2002-08-26T15:55
End: 2002-08-26T15:55
Location: Tennessee

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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.

What forecasters said that day

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 Aug 26, 1:27 PM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 1:27 PM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
227 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002

UPPER LEVEL CLOSED LOW WILL PERSIST ACROSS THE MID STATE THROUGH AT
LEAST THE FIRST HALF OF THE WORK WEEK. SIGNIFICANT LOW LEVEL
FEATURES ARE NOT NOTED UNTIL THURSDAY WHEN A WESTWARD MOVING
INVERTED TROUGH MOVES ACROSS THE AREA.

FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...SCATTERED ACTIVITY WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THE BEST CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING OVER THE PLATEAU. THE
ACTIVITY SHOULD BE MOST NUMEROUS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING
HOURS. HOWEVER...GIVEN THE GENERAL UPPER LEVEL INFLUENCE...WILL
INCLUDE SLIGHT POPS THROUGH THE NIGHTTIME PERIODS.

ON THURSDAY...WILL CONTINUE WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS AREA WIDE AS SOME ADDITIONAL FORCING IS POSSIBLE.

UPPER LOW WILL WEAKEN CONSIDERABLY BY THE WEEKEND AS A BERMUDA HIGH
BRINGS A MOIST SOUTHERLY FLOW ACROSS THE AREA. WILL THEREFORE
CONTINUE WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON INTO THE EXTENDED PERIOD.

NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE PERIOD AS 850 MB
TEMPERATURES HOVER AROUND 16C. WILL STRAY LITTLE FROM MOS VALUES FOR
TEMPS.

BNA BB 68/85/68/85 2312
CSV BB 61/79/61/77 2423

21

.BNA...NONE.

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:53 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Grundy

When: August 26, 3:55 PM CST
Where: Grundy County, Tracy City
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 35.267, -85.750

Golf ball size hail was reported.

Thunderstorm Wind, Grundy

When: August 26, 3:55 PM CST
Where: Grundy County, Tracy City
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 35.267, -85.750

Law enforcement reported numerous trees were down.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Tennessee in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Tennessee, August 2002

Sources

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: 5313633, 5313634.