1 lightning, 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 Jul 1, 8:45 AM CST, 12 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 945 AM CDT MON JUL 1 2002 MIDDLE TENNESSEE REMAINED UNDER A WEAK AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE THIS MORNING, WITH TEMPERATURES ALREADY AROUND 80 DEGREES AT 900 AM. EXPECT VERY SIMILAR WEATHER TO THAT OF YESTERDAY. SO, BLV CU FIELD WILL DEVELOP SHORTLY AND WILL BE FOLLOWED BY ISOLATED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS. WILL UPDATE FORECAST TO TAKE OUT MENTION OF MORNING IN THE FIRST PERIOD. OTHERWISE, EXPECT TO MAKE LITTLE OR NO CHANGE TO PREVIOUS ZONE PACKAGE. .BNA...NONE. 19
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 124 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:08 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning killed 9 cattle when they took shelter under a pecan tree.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5324146.