Thunderstorm Wind, Houston
- When
- July 7, 5:20 PM EST
- Where
- Houston County, Rehobeth
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 31.117, -85.450
Several downed trees reported by the Houston County Sheriff.
Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 7, 2002
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
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- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $1,000
- 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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 7, 12:45 PM EST, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 12:45 PM EST, 4 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 145 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 2002 VISUAL SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWING CU FORMING WITH SEA BREEZE ALONG FL BIG BEND...& SHOULD SEE ADDITIONAL FORMATION OVER EASTERN FL PANHANDLE. WITH NE-E FLOW...PENETRATION WILL NOT BE THAT FAR INLAND. WEST COAST SEA BREEZE ALSO PUSHING INLAND...& WITH ENERGY APPROACHING...SHOULD LIGHT UP THINGS PRETTY GOOD OVER SE GA. CLOUD MASS WITH CONVECTION OFF GA & SC COAST SHOWING SOME MOVEMENT E-SE...WITH SOME CONVECTION NOW IN SC COASTAL AREAS. RUC & MESOETA STILL MAINTAIN TREND TO PUSH THIS ENERGY SE & OVER CWA THIS LATE AFTERNOON TO EVENING...BUT DO WEAKEN IT. RUC HAS A BIT FARTHER SE TREND THAN MESOETA. EVENING POP WILL BE IN THE FORECAST. OTHERWISE SURFACE ANALYSIS HAS BOUNDARY WEAKENING & STALLING OVER NORTH- CENTRAL GA TO NORTH-CENTRAL AL. EARLIER WEAK TROUGH NOT SEEN IN PATTERN MUCH NOW. THETA-E GRADIENT STILL DEPICTING NORTHERN BOUNDARY WELL. MODEL SOLUTIONS ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE LARGE SCALE FEATURES...BUT DO HAVE SMALL SCALE DIFFERENCES. EAST SURFACE FLOW CONTINUES THROUGH TUESDAY THEN BECOMES MORE SE. SEA BREEZE CONVECTION LOOKS TO BE MAIN TRIGGER FOR AFTERNOON & EVENING SCATTERED CONVECTION...AS MODELS BUILDING RIDGE A BIT OVER GULF & N FL. BY TUESDAY...AN EASTERLY WAVE APPEARS ON ALL MODELS...WITH A LOW IN THE CENTRAL GULF. ETA ON TUESDAY SENDS LARGE CONVECTION AREA TO WEST COAST OF FL...WHILE AVN SOLUTION SIMILAR BUT NOT AS MUCH QPF. LONGER RANGE AVN EVENTUALLY TAKES LOW TO NORTH GULF OFF FL PANHANDLE BY THURSDAY. THIS WILL BE A WAIT & SEE SITUATION. THIS ALSO CONSISTENT WITH TROPICAL PREDICTION CENTERS TREND. ALSO...MODEL SOUNDINGS INDICATE EAST FLOW THROUGH MID-WEEK WITH PRECIP WATER VALUES OF AROUND 1.75 INCHES...THEN MORE SE FLOW BY WEDNESDAY. THE ATMOSPHERE GRADUALLY BECOMES A BIT MORE STABLE BY MID-WEEK WITH LESS IMPULSES & THE UPPER RIDGING. TEMPERATURES REMAIN CURRENT TREND WITH LOWER TO MID 70S AS LOWS...WHILE AROUND 90 TO SOME MID 90S. MODEL TEMPS KEEP HIGHS IN LOWER 90S...BUT HAVE SEEN SOME MID 90S IN SPOTS. FIRE WX: NO HEADLINES. AS WINDS INCREASE WITH EAST FLOW...DISPERSION VALUES WILL RISE SOME & APPROACH CAUTION LEVELS...BUT AT THIS TIME JUST WILL BE MONITORED. MARINE FORECAST: NO HEADLINES FIRST 24 HOURS. BUT AS EAST FLOW PICKS UP INTO MID-WEEK...MAY REACH SCEC. EXTENDED: SURFACE HIGH RIDGE AXIS WILL SETTLE OVER THE NORTHER GULF INTO WEDNESDAY...WHICH WILL SET UP A S-SW FLOW. WILL SEE INCREASED CHANCE OF AFTERNOON & EVENING SHOWERS & TSTMS. WILL ALSO MONITOR ANY TROPICAL LOW FORMATION. PRELIM NUMBERS... TLH 073 092 073 093 3333 PFN 075 089 075 089 3333 DHN 072 092 073 092 2222 ABY 071 092 072 092 3333 VLD 072 092 072 092 3333 .TLH... .AL...NONE. .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. MCT
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Heat in Illinois, July 7 to 8, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Idaho, July 7, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Washington, July 7, 2002
- Flash Flood in Minnesota, July 7 to 8, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 7, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Washington, July 7, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 7, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, July 7, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 7, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Minnesota, July 7 to 9, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Washington, July 7, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oregon, July 7, 2002
More
Every storm in Alabama in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, July 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: 5306859.