Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 25, 2002

Name: Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 25, 2002
Start: 2002-08-25T02:30
End: 2002-08-25T02:30
Location: Arkansas

August 25, 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 24, 10:45 PM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 10:45 PM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1145 PM CDT SAT AUG 24 2002

UPDATED FORECAST EARLIER THIS EVENING. SCATTERED STORMS DEVELOPING
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA/SOUTHERN MISSOURI...AND WILL HEAD INTO
NORTHERN/WESTERN ARKANSAS OVERNIGHT. PUT IN CHANCE OF THUNDER
NORTH/WEST...WITH SLIGHT CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION ELSEWHERE.

OTHERWISE...FRONT IN NORTHERN ARKANSAS WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTH
OVERNIGHT AND ON SUNDAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED ALONG
FRONT...AND MAINLY ACROSS CENTRAL/SOUTHERN ARKANSAS ON SUNDAY.

FRONT WILL CONTINUE HEADING SOUTH EARLY NEXT WEEK OR WILL DISSIPATE.
BOTTOM LINE IS THAT SLIGHTLY COOLER/DRIER AIR WILL FILTER INTO THE
STATE FROM THE NORTH WITH RAIN CHANCES DECREASING. (46)

.LZK...NONE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 25, 2:29 AM CST, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK, AR
329 AM CDT SUN AUG 25 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0315 AM    DANVILLE                  AR   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
08/25/02   YELL

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The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Logan

When: August 25, 2:30 AM CST
Where: Logan County, Chismville
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 35.217, -93.950

Thunderstorm winds downed a number of trees in Chismville and surrounding areas.

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

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: 5317250.