Name: Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 10, 2002
Start: 2002-07-10T16:30
End: 2002-07-10T17:30
Location: Tennessee

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $20,000
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.

Several trees were reported down in and around Jasper.

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, 1:29 PM CST, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 1:29 PM CST, 3 hours 1 minute before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
329 PM EDT WED JUL 10 2002

FRONTAL BOUNDARY PROGGED TO MOVE SOUTH INTO MRX CWA TONIGHT. VERY
HIGH PWS NEAR 2.0 WILL PERSIST IN THE PREFRONTAL AIRMASS. MOS POPS
NEAR CLIMO FOR TONIGHT WHICH APPEAR TOO LOW ACCOUNTING FOR EVE
INSTABILITY AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. LOCALIZED AMOUNTS IN EXCESS
OF 1.25 INCHES ARE EXPECTED.
MODEL PROGS ARE PROBABLY TOO FAST AND EXPECT BOUNDARY TO HANG UP
S PART OF CWA THU. LOW LEVEL RIDGING BUILDS INTO THE AREA FROM
THE N-NE. UPR LOW SLIDES SE TO VCNTY OF IL. EXPECT GOOD
PRECIPITATION GRADIENT S TO N WITH LESS MAINLY OROGRAPHIC
CONVECTION N PART. DONT EXPECT MUCH COOLING UNTIL THU NIGHT.
UPR LOW SHEARS OUT OVER N OH RVR VLY WHILE TROUGHING
ELONGATES FROM LOWER MS RVR VLY TO E GRTLKS. LOW LEVEL
TROUGHING AND THETA-E RIDGING SETS UP JUST W OF AREA. THIS
CONTINUES INTO FRI. SOME EXPECTED DOWNSLOPING N AREAS SO
WILL GO MORE OPTIMISTIC ON CLOUDS AND TEMPS THAN
MOS GUIDANCE. ELSEWHERE...POPS WILL BE NEAR CLIMO. FLOW BECOMES
INCREASINGLY FAVORABLE FOR GOOD CHC CONVECTION FRI NIGHT...
WITH CONTINUED COOL MINS NE PART/MTNS.
TROUGHING FROM THE NW CONTINUES BRINGING BETTER THAN CLIMO POPS
THROUGH THE WEEKEND.

CHA TT 071/085 069/083 068 17655
TYS ET 070/086 067/085 066 17644
TRI BT 066/079 060/076 062 17533
OQT ET 071/085 066/084 066 17644=

.MRX...
NC...NONE.
TN...NONE.
VA...NONE.

SON

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 10, 1:04 PM CST, 3 hours 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
304 PM EDT WED JUL 10 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0145 PM    DAYTON                    TN   WIND DAMAGE
07/10/02   RHEA                           NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ALONG
                                          HIGHWAY 30.  REPORTED BY
                                          RHEA COUNTY 911.

Local storm report, Jul 10, 1:09 PM CST, 3 hours 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
309 PM EDT WED JUL 10 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0200 PM    DECATUR                   TN   WIND DAMAGE
07/10/02   MEIGS                          A FEW TREES DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY MEIGS COUNTY
                                          911.

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 44 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:32 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Marion

When: July 10, 4:30 PM CST to 5:30 PM CST
Where: Marion County, Jasper
Property damage: $20,000
Reported by: UTILITY COMPANY
Coordinates: 35.083, -85.633

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

More

Every storm in Tennessee in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Tennessee, July 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: 5309014.