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 Nov 10, 3:05 PM CST, 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 305 PM CST SUN NOV 10 2002 LATEST FORECAST MODEL DATA INDICATES THAT THE STRONG COLD FRONT WILL ENTER MIDDLE TENNESSEE SHORTLY BEFORE 11/06Z...AND DEPART SHORTLY AFTER THAT TIME. FROM NOW UNTIL 06Z...SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED TO RAPIDLY DEVELOP INTO THUNDERSTORMS...FROM VERY STRONG AFTERNOON WARMING AND DESTABILIZATION. IT SEEMS THAT THE AFTERNOON CU FIELD HAS HAD LIMITED SUCCESS THIS AFTERNOON SO FAR (NOT PUNCHED THROUGH MID LEVELS)...DUE TO 650-MB BASED INVERSION OR CAP (STAIRSTEP 18Z BNA RAOB). ONCE THIS CAP GOES...EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO GO SEVERE. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE ON THE LEADING EDGE OF A SQUALL LINE THAT WILL COME INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS EVENING...BUT SOME STRONGLY ROTATING CELLS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE EVENING SQUALL LINE. SO WILL CONTINUE TO MENTION ISOLATED TORNADOES THIS EVENING IN THE ZONES. AFTER THIS ROUND OF EVENING SEVERE WEATHER...THE CHANCE OF SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE ALL MONDAY IN THE PLATEAU...AND INTO THE MORNING WESTERN/CENTRAL ZONES. POST-FRONTAL NORTHWEST WINDS AND LINGERING MOISTURE WILL KEEP MORE CLOUDS AROUND (FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS) RELATIVE TO MOS. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS BNA 53 59 38 53 / 100 30 10 10 CSV 53 57 36 50 / 100 40 10 20 .BNA...NONE. 04
TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075>080-093>097-111130- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1145 AM CST SUN NOV 10 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE... A STRONG COLD FRONT AND POWERFUL UPPER LEVEL WINDS WILL APPROACH THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL MOVE IN DURING THE EVENING. WEATHER CONDITIONS AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL BECOME FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WITH ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE. THUS...ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP...WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES MOST PROBABLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... WITH THE AREA IN A HIGH RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER...ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTER GROUPS IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... AT THIS TIME...HAZARDOUS WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE NOT EXPECTED THROUGH THE PERIOD. 04
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 124 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:29 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a home at 2860 Highway 43 South in Loretto. Deputies and the Leoma Fire Dept. discovered that their was no damage to the house other than that the fact the owner's home stereo equipment was damaged.
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, November 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: 5322216.