Thunderstorm Wind, Searcy
- When
- April 16, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Searcy County, Harriet
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 36.000, -92.517
Thunderstorm winds knocked down some road signs at Harriet.
Damaging Wind in Arkansas, April 16, 2002
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 16, 1:30 PM CST, 5 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 1:30 PM CST, 5 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 230 PM CDT TUE APR 16 2002 A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH FROM THE NORTHWEST FRIDAY. ABNORMALLY WARM CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED UNTIL THEN. NEAR NORMAL CONDITIONS WILL LIKELY PREVAIL AFTER THE FRONTAL PASSAGE. THE CHANCES OF RAIN WILL INCREASE AS THE FRONT NEARS. FCSTID = 38 HRO 60 86 64 86 / 30 10 0 10 LIT 64 87 65 88 / 20 10 0 10 HOT 64 88 65 88 / 30 10 0 10 PBF 67 88 66 89 / 20 10 0 10 .LZK... AR...NONE.
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 131 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:31 UTC.
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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Texas, April 16 to 17, 2002
- Damaging Wind and High Wind in Kansas, April 16, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, April 16, 2002
- Heat in Georgia, April 16 to 22, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, April 16, 2002
- Wildfire in North Dakota, April 16, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, April 16, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, April 16, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, April 16, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, April 16, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, April 16, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, April 16, 2002
More
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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: 5291897.