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 10, 3:00 PM CST, 0 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 400 PM CDT WED JUL 10 2002 THIS AFTERNOON ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH THE NORTHERN SECTION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. THESE STORMS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT THAT WILL PUSH INTO NORTHERN ALABAMA BY THURSDAY MORNING. THIS FRONT WILL STALL AND GRADUALLY SLIDE BACK NORTHWARD AS A WARM FRONT INTO SOUTHERN TENNESSEE BY THURSDAY EVENING. AS THIS FRONT STALLS IN THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF OUR CWA ENERGY IMPULSES WILL SLIDE ALONG THE BOUNDARY GIVING US A CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION THROUGH OUT THE FORECAST PERIOD. AVN MODEL SEEMS TO HANDLE THE WEATHER SITUATION BEST. RAISED POPS FIRST COUPLE OF PERIODS AND ONLY MINOR VARIANCE FROM AVN MODEL WITH SMALL ADJUSTMENTS. BNA EE 072/088 071/085 069 31545 CSV EE 067/080 063/078 062 31545 .BNA...NONE. 31
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
223 PM CDT WED JUL 10 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0135 PM FT CAMPBELL TN WIND DAMAGE
07/10/02 MONTGOMERY HAM RADIO REPORTS OF TREES
DOWN AT FT CAMPBELL ON THE
TENNESSEE SIDE.
0200 PM EASTERN SECTION TN 58 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
07/10/02 CLAY HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
REPORTED A TREE DOWN IN THE
EASTERN PART OF CLAY
COUNTY.
0245 PM NORTHWEST SECTION TN 58 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
07/10/02 BEDFORD HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
REPORTED TREES DOWN IN THE
NORTHWEST PORTION OF THE
COUNTY.
0308 PM COUNTYWIDE TN WIND DAMAGE
07/10/02 DAVIDSON DAVIDSON COUNTY OEM
REPORTED NUMEROUS TREES
DOWN AND SCATTERED POWER
OUTAGES. AREAS AFFECTED
WERE JOELTON...WHITES
CREEK...AND DONELSON.
KVPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT. . .CORRECTED FOR TIME OF ISSUANCE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
322 PM CDT WED JUL 10 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0135 PM FT CAMPBELL TN WIND DAMAGE
07/10/02 MONTGOMERY HAM RADIO REPORTS OF TREES
DOWN AT FT CAMPBELL ON THE
TENNESSEE SIDE.
0200 PM EASTERN SECTION TN 58 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
07/10/02 CLAY HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
REPORTED A TREE DOWN IN THE
EASTERN PART OF CLAY
COUNTY.
0245 PM NORTHWEST SECTION TN 58 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
07/10/02 BEDFORD HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
REPORTED TREES DOWN IN THE
NORTHWEST PORTION OF THE
COUNTY.
KVThe Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:55 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A 9 year-old boy was struck by lightning while coming out of the water at Rock Island State Park. He stopped breathing, and his father administered CPR and revived his son. The boy was hospitalized with some burns, and then released.
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, July 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: 5308168.