The tornado outbreak of November 10, 2002
64 tornadoesTennessee, Ohio, Alabama and 7 more states
64 tornadoes touched down across 10 states between 12:10 AM and 11:20 PM CST, 9 of them rated F3 or stronger, and 34 people were killed. The 28th-deadliest tornado day since 1950.
Watch the day unfoldTornado outbreak · November 10, 2002
How the day unfolded
Every tornado recorded that day, at its logged touchdown time and along its path, with the counties it crossed.
The day in numbers
- Tornadoes
- 64
- 40th of 12,998 tornado days since 1950
- F3 or stronger
- 9
- 1 rated F4 or F5
- Killed
- 34
- 28th-deadliest tornado day since 1950
- Injured
- 279
- Along all the paths
- Path miles
- 544
- All the paths end to end
- First and last
- 12:10 AM to 11:20 PM
- Touchdowns, Central Standard Time
Hour by hour
Tornadoes touching down in each hour, Central Standard Time.
Every tornado
In order of touchdown. 3 have a record page, linked from the rating.
By state
| Tennessee | 20 | 2 | 15 |
| Ohio | 18 | 3 | 5 |
| Alabama | 8 | 2 | 12 |
| Mississippi | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| Indiana | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Kentucky | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Pennsylvania | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Illinois | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Florida | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgia | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Tornadoes in 2002 · On this date in other years · The biggest outbreak days · The day’s damaging winds
Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, 1950 to 2025. A day is SPC’s calendar date in Central Standard Time; an outbreak day here has 40 or more tornadoes, or 6 or more rated F3/EF3 or stronger.