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Heavy Rain in the Southeast; Wintry Mix from the Plains through the Ohio Valley

A storm system will bring a number impacts to the central and eastern US. Heavy rain and thunderstorms are expected in the Gulf Coast and Deep South. Further north, a wintry mix may produce a glaze of ice from the Ozarks/Mid-South east through the Ohio Valley. Accumulating snow is expected from the central Plains east into the Upper Ohio Valley/Lower Great Lakes. Read More >

April 28, 2002
Counties:  Perry, Breckinridge, Meade
F-scale:  F2
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Injuries:  7
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Time:  2:05am
Noted discrepancies:  SPC lists a path width of 50 yards, NCDC and Storm Data list 150 yards.  Storm Data takes this tornado from 3/10 of a mile southwest of Tobinsport to 1.8 miles east northeast of Tobinsport.  Storm Data mentions that this tornado crossed into Kentucky from Perry County...hitting Irvington, two miles east northeast of Cloverport, and two and a half miles south of Garrett.

April 28, 2002
Counties:  Ohio
F-scale:  F1
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Time:  2:40am
Noted discrepancies:  SPC lists a path width of 30 yards...NCDC and Storm Data say 100 yards.
Notes:  Storm Data takes this tornado from five miles west of Centertown, on Shrull Lane, to Hartford.

April 28, 2002
Counties:  Hardin
F-scale:  F1
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Time:  2:55am
Noted discrepancies:  SPC lists a path width of 20 yards, NCDC and Storm Data says 50 yards.
Notes:  Storm Data takes this tornado from two miles west of Radcliff to Radcliff.

April 28, 2002
Counties:  Edmonson
F-scale:  F1
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Time:  3:35am
Noted discrepancies:  SPC lists a path width of 30 yards...NCDC and Storm Data say 100 yards.
Notes:  Storm Data takes this tornado from two miles east of Broadway to five miles east of Broadway.