High Wind in Alaska, May 17, 2002

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.

High Wind

Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

• Damaging Winds in Texas, May 17, 2002$450,000 · 2 events
• Flood and Hail in Mississippi, May 17, 2002$52,000 · 1 in hail · 38 events
• Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 17, 2002$164,000 · 7 events
• Lightning Strike in Florida, May 17, 2002$200,000 · 1 event
• Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 17, 2002$118,000 · 9 events
• Flash Flood and Hail in Tennessee, May 17, 2002$125,000 · 2 in hail · 5 events
• Damaging Wind in Texas, May 17, 2002$150,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 17, 2002$140,000 · 80 kt wind · 1 event
• Extreme Cold in New York, May 17 to 18, 2002$63,000 · 13 events
• Lightning Strike in Florida, May 17, 2002$80,000 · 1 event
• Tornado in Arkansas, May 17, 20022 injured · F1 · 1 event
• Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 17, 2002$50,000 · 1.75 in hail · 4 events

Every storm in Alaska in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, May 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: 5290665.