Thunderstorm Wind, Meigs
- When
- July 10, 1:00 PM EST
- Where
- Meigs County, Decatur
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.517, -84.800
Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 10, 2002
Trees were reported down in Decatur.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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 happened
The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.
Trees were reported down in Decatur.
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 Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 10, 9:15 AM EST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 9:15 AM EST, 3 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 1015 AM EDT WED JUL 10 2002 FORECAST ON TRACK. NO UPDATE PLANNED. CLOUD COVER WILL MODERATE TEMPS TODAY BUT SOME SUN AND MAX SPIKES EXPECTED. PCPN WILL COME IN TWO WAVES. FIRST THE REMAINS OF THE NOCTURNAL CONVECTION AND AGAIN WITH INCREASED DESTABILIZATION IN ADVANCE OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. SON PREV DISC: MODELS STILL IN DECENT AGREEMENT OVERALL...THINK MORE CONSISTENT AVN MAY BE HANDLING UPPER LOW DROPPING THROUGH MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY BETTER. FRONT TO PUSH SOUTH INTO OUR AREA...BUT APPEARS IT MAY STALL IN THE VICINITY OF OUR SOUTHERN BORDER. MAY SEE SOME DRYING OVER NORTHERN AREAS LATER WED NIGHT AND THURSDAY...BUT MOISTURE SHOULD RETURN THURSDAY NIGHT. PLAN TO GO WITH CATEGORICAL POPS NORTH... LIKELY ELSEWHERE TODAY...THEN LIKELY SOUTH AND CHANCE ELSEWHERE TONIGHT. PRECIP WATER RATHER HIGH TODAY...SHOULD SEE SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. COULD EVEN BE SOME ISOLATED WATER PROBLEMS TODAY. WILL GO WITH CHANCE POPS THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...WITH THE HIGHEST IN THE SOUTH CLOSER TO THE FRONT. FWC/MAV NUMBERS GENERALLY CLOSE AND LOOK REASONABLE. BIGGEST DIFFERENCES ARE THURSDAY NIGHT...WILL USE A BLEND THERE. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS FOLLOW: CHA 92 74 87 69 / 60 60 50 50 TYS 89 71 84 67 / 70 50 40 40 TRI 84 67 80 60 / 80 40 30 30 OQT 88 71 84 67 / 70 50 40 40 .MRX... NC...NONE. TN...NONE. VA...NONE. LDW
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 10:10 AM EST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
NCZ060-061-TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-081>087-098>102-VAZ001-002-005- 006-008-102200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 1110 AM EDT WED JUL 10 2002 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS EAST TENNESSEE...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA... ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SAME AREA THROUGH TONIGHT... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS UP TO 70 MPH. A MOIST AND VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS... PROVIDING A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. IN ADDITION OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM THUNDERSTORMS EARLIER THIS MORNING WILL BE AN ADDED TRIGGER. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTH FROM NEAR THE OHIO RIVER LATE THIS MORNING...AND WITH ALL THE MOISTURE AVAILABLE... LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS ACROSS THE AREA COULD TOTAL UP TO ONE INCH...WITH LOCALLY HEAVIER AMOUNTS UP TO THREE INCHES POSSIBLE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. RESIDENTS OF EAST TENNESSEE...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...FOR THE LATEST WEATHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. TD
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 134 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:57 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- 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
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 10, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Minnesota, July 10, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 10, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 10, 2002
- Flash Flood in South Dakota, July 10, 2002
- Flash Flood in Iowa, July 10 to 11, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 10, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 10, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 10, 2002
- Blizzard in California, July 10, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 10, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 10, 2002
More
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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: 5309010.