Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 12, 2002

Name: Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 12, 2002
Start: 2002-08-12T19:50
End: 2002-08-12T19:50
Location: Arkansas

August 12, 2002 · NWS LZK · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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 Aug 12, 1:26 PM CST, 6 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 1:26 PM CST, 6 hours 24 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
226 PM CDT MON AUG 12 2002

BY EARLY TONIGHT EXPECT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE TO
SPREAD FROM LOUISIANA INTO SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. MEANWHILE A COLD
FRONT WILL BE APPROACHING FROM SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS. THIS SHOULD
TRIGGER THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTHERN
SECTIONS LATER TONIGHT. LOWS TONIGHT WILL LIKELY BE IN THE UPPER 60S
ACROSS ACROSS THE NORTH AND RANGE TOWARDS THE MID 70S IN THE SOUTH.
THE CHANCE FOR RAIN WILL INCREASE TOMORROW AS THE FRONT GETS CLOSER.
THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY BY TUESDAY NIGHT. THE COLD FRONT IS LIKELY
TO EXTEND FROM NEAR MOUNTAIN HOME TO MENA BY EARLY TUESDAY NIGHT.

FCSTID = 38
HRO   69  84  67  83 /  50  50  60  40
LIT   71  88  70  86 /  50  50  60  40
HOT   73  88  72  85 /  50  50  60  40
PBF   73  89  72  88 /  50  50  60  40

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AR...NONE.

The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Hot Spring

When: August 12, 7:50 PM CST
Where: Hot Spring County, Bismarck
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
Coordinates: 34.317, -93.167

Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and large limbs.

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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Arkansas in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Arkansas, August 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: 5316922.