Thunderstorm Wind, Giles
- When
- June 13, 2:20 PM CST
- Where
- Giles County, Pulaski
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 35.200, -87.017
EMA reported one or 2 trees were down in Pulaski.
Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 13, 2002
2 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- 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
- 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 Jun 13, 1:50 PM CST, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 1:50 PM CST, 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 250 PM CDT THU JUN 13 2002 AT MID AFTERNOON...A SURFACE LOW WAS OVER FAR SOUTH INDIANA. A SURFACE TROUGH EXTENDED ACROSS EXTREME NORTHWEST MID TN...SOUTHWEST TO MEM WITH INCREASING CONVECTION AHEAD OF IT. ANOTHER BOUNDARY (COLD FRONT) EXTENDED FROM THE LOW ACROSS MO...SOUTHEAST OK...AND INTO NORTH TX. MODELS IN BETTER AGREEMENT...CLOSER TO PREVIOUS AVN RUN WITH A FASTER PROGRESSION OF SURFACE FRONT THROUGH MID TN. FOR THIS EVENING...MOST ACTIVITY LOOKS LIKE IT WILL BE AHEAD OF FIRST SURFACE TROUGH. NOT SURE HOW MUCH ACTIVITY WILL DEVELOP BEHIND THIS TROUGH...BUT SOME ALREADY DEVELOPING IN WEST KY. POPS WILL BE CATEGORICAL FOR THIS EVENING FOR SOUTH MID TN AND PLATEAU...BUT ONLY CHANCE/SCATTERED FOR NORTHWEST MID TN. THIS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE BASED ON LATEST RADAR TRENDS BEFORE ZONE ISSUANCE. STILL POTENTIAL FOR PULSE TYPE SEVERE STORMS. DOWNBURST WINDS AND HAIL WILL BE A THREAT. GREATEST CONVERGENCE AND DEEPEST MOISTURE SHIFTS TO THE SOUTHEAST OVERNIGHT. WITH LOSS OF HEATING AND LESS FORCING...LOOK FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO DIMINISH OVERNIGHT. FOR FRIDAY MORNING...MAIN TEMPERATURE/DEW POINT DISCONTINUITY LINE MOVES THROUGH. CONVERGENCE WILL BE VERY WEAK...BUT JUST ENOUGH TO GO FOR SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN NORTH MID TN. ELSEWHERE...INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE WILL BE A LITTLE GREATER THROUGH MIDDAY...SO WILL GO WITH CHANCE/SCATTERED WORDING FOR SOUTH AND PLATEAU. SYSTEM LOOKING A LITTLE FASTER THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT...SO WILL HAVE SKIES TURNING PARTLY CLOUDY THROUGH THE DAY FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST. FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY WILL BE DRY...COOLER AND LESS HUMID. SEVERAL WEAK SHORTWAVES WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THE WEEKEND. FOR MID TN...MAIN RESULT LOOKS LIKE A PERIOD OF CLOUDINESS SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY. NEXT SUBSTANTIAL WEATHER WILL BE MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHORTWAVE ENERGY WILL BRING A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND STORMS. MOS NUMBERS HAVE BEEN NEARLY PERFECT PAST COUPLE OF DAYS...AND THEY LOOK HARD TO BEAT THIS TIME. PRELIMS... BNA EB 067/081 058/080 060 3200 CSV EB 063/077 053/077 056 7300 .BNA...NONE. SH
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 90 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:22 UTC.
Event by event
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Franklin
- When
- June 13, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Franklin County, Huntland
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.050, -86.267
Police reported large tree limbs were down.
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
- Flash Flooding in Pennsylvania, June 13, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, June 13, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 13, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 13, 2002
- Flooding in Iowa, June 13 to 14, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 13, 2002
- Flood in West Virginia, June 13, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, June 13, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, June 13, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 13, 2002
- Flash Flood and Flooding in Ohio, June 13, 2002
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, June 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: 5297337, 5297338.