Hail in Tennessee, September 18, 2002

Name: Hail in Tennessee, September 18, 2002
Start: 2002-09-18T11:15
End: 2002-09-18T11:15
Location: Tennessee

September 18, 2002 · NWS OHX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
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 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 Sep 18, 9:00 AM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 18, 9:00 AM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1000 AM CDT WED SEP 18 2002

MOIST H8 SOUTHWEST FLOW SEEMS TO BE AMPLIFYING M/L SHORTWAVES...
AS WAS THE CASE EARLY THIS MORNING OVER THE FORECAST AREA. THE NEXT
RESOLVABLE S/W IS OVER EASTERN TEXAS...HEADING IN TONIGHT.

IN THE SHORT-TERM...13Z RUC SHIFTS S/W OVER THE FORECAST AREA
(ASSOCIATED WITH MORNING PRECIPITATION) TOO FAST...AND WILL ADVERTISE
A LIKELY POP IN THE PLATEAU (CONSISTENT WITH MESO-ETA/ETA/WS-ETA
MODELS) AND LOWER AFTERNOON HIGHS. OTHERWISE...WILL UPDATE FOR A
MOSTLY CLOUDY SKY...SCATTERED (ISOLATED) POP/S CENTRAL (WEST)...AND A
SLIGHT REDUCTION TO AFTERNOON HIGHS.

.BNA...NONE.

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The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 72 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:13 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Dekalb

When: September 18, 11:15 AM CST
Where: Dekalb County, Center Hill Lake
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 36.050, -85.800

Nickel size hail reported.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Tennessee in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Tennessee, September 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: 5320596.