Name: Damaging Wind in Arkansas, January 23, 2002
Start: 2002-01-23T15:47
End: 2002-01-23T15:47
Location: Arkansas

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 Jan 23, 3:09 PM CST, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 23, 3:09 PM CST, 38 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
400 PM CST WED JAN 23 2002

WARM HUMID AND UNSTABLE AIR IS IN PLACE IN MOST OF THE CWA AT ISSUE
TIME WAITING FOR THE COLD FRONT AND A SHORT WAVE IN SOUTHWEST FLOW
TO ARRIVE. THUNDERSTORMS IN OKLAHOMA SHOULD REACH INTO ARKANSAS THIS
EVENING AND SHOULD SEE INCREASE IN THUNDERSTORMS EARLY TONIGHT WITH
SOME SEVERE WEATHER LIKELY. WILL HAVE LIKELY TO CATEGORICAL POPS FOR
TONIGHT WITH MENTION OF SEVERE AND HEAVY RAIN. SEVERE AND HEAVY RAIN
THREAT SHOULD BE OUT OF THE CWA BY 12Z THURSDAY AS THE COLD FRONT
SHOULD BE MOSTLY OUT OF THE AREA. TEMPS WILL LIKELY STAY WELL INTO THE
60S THROUGH THE NIGHT UNTIL THE FRONT PASSES THEN TEMPS SHOULD DROP
TO NEAR FWC MINS. CONSIDERABLE MOISTURE REMAINS ON THURSDAY AS THE MAIN
UPPER TROF HANGS OUT TO THE WEST. WILL KEEP HIGH POPS GOING THROUGH
THURSDAY...BUT THE AIR SHOULD BE COOLER AND MORE STABLE...SO
PRECIPITATION  SHOULD BE MOSTLY RAIN. ENOUGH INSTABILITY REMAINS IN
THE SOUTHEAST IN THE MORNING TO CONTINUE A MENTION OF THUNDER THERE.
TEMPS SHOULD RISE LITTLE ON THURSDAY. WILL CONTINUE POPS INTO
THURSDAY NIGHT FOR LIGHT RAIN WITH CLOUDS HOLDING IN. WILL STAY NEAR
FWC MOS FOR MINS. UPPER TROF LOOKS LIKE IT WILL PASS OVER THE AREA ON
FRIDAY. WILL KEEP SOME CLOUDS IN THROUGH FRIDAY...BUT LOOKS LIKE MOISTURE
WILL BE TOO SCARCE FOR A MENTION OF PRECIPITATION. LOWER MOS MAXES
FOR FRIDAY IN THE MID 40S TO LOWER 50S LOOK REASONABLE. DRY AND MILD
WEATHER SHOULD MOVE IN AFTER THAT INTO MONDAY. WILL INCREASE CLOUDS
SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY AND PUT IN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN FOR MONDAY
NIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY AS ANOTHER SHORT WAVE MOVES ACROSS. ARCTIC FRONT
REACHES THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY AND WILL PUT IN A CHANCE OF RAIN FOR
THAT. LOOKS LIKE IMPACT OF ARCTIC AIR WILL REACH AREA AFTER NEXT
WEDNESDAY.

.LZK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT PARTS OF NORTHEAST
          ZONES 16-23>25-33-34

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 43 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:45 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Logan

When: January 23, 3:47 PM CST
Where: Logan County, Booneville
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 35.133, -93.933

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

More

Every storm in Arkansas in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Arkansas, January 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: 5279967.