Thunderstorm Wind, White
- When
- July 12, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- White County, West Pt
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 35.200, -91.617
Thunderstorm winds downed a few large trees.
Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 12, 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 Jul 12, 2:00 PM CST, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 2:00 PM CST, 2 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 300 PM CDT FRI JUL 12 2002 THE UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE TOWARDS ARKANSAS TONIGHT...THEN CONTINUE IN THE VICINITY THROUGH MONDAY. AN AREA OF HIGHER MEAN RELATIVE HUMIDITY AHEAD OF THIS APPROACHING LOW WILL BRING ABOUT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS TO MOST OF ARKANSAS TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY. RAINFALL WILL AVERAGE HALF AN INCH...WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS. TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE AT OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL FOR THE MOST PART...BUT WILL FALL BELOW NORMAL IN THE AREAS OF INCREASED CLOUDS AND RAIN. SOME AREA WILL CONTINUE FREE OF RAIN. FCSTID = 38 HRO 67 83 66 84 / 40 50 20 30 LIT 72 88 70 88 / 40 50 20 30 HOT 71 87 69 88 / 40 50 20 30 PBF 74 88 70 88 / 30 50 20 30 .LZK... AR...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 11:50 AM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
ARZ003-012-021-022-030-037-038-040-041-052-122100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1250 PM CDT FRI JUL 12 2002 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT OVER MUCH OF NORTHWEST AND WESTERN ARKANSAS... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST AND WESTERN ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE RISK AREA GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM MOUNTAINBURG...TO PARIS...TO NASHVILLE. A COLD FRONT OVER SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. DAYTIME HEATING AND ABUNDANT LOW AND MID LEVEL MOISTURE WILL ALLOW FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG AND OUT AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT OVER NORTHWEST AND WESTERN ARKANSAS. THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HAIL UP TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...EMERGENCY MANAGERS...AND HAM RADIO OPERATORS WILL BE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TV STATIONS FOR UPDATES ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. 57/38
Local storm report, Jul 12, 12:36 PM CST, 3 hours 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK, AR
136 PM CDT FRI JUL 12 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0115 PM 2 S BERGMAN AR .75 INCH HAIL
07/12/02 BOONE REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTER.
57/218Special weather statement, Jul 12, 2:37 PM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>033-037>045-052>054-130000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 337 PM CDT FRI JUL 12 2002 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT OVER MUCH OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE RISK AREA GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM SALEM...TO AUGUSTA...TO LITTLE ROCK...TO NASHVILLE. A COLD FRONT OVER SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO ARKANSAS TONIGHT. DAYTIME HEATING AND ABUNDANT LOW AND MID LEVEL MOISTURE WILL ALLOW FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG AND OUT AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT OVER NORTHWEST AND WESTERN ARKANSAS. THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HAIL UP TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...EMERGENCY MANAGERS...AND HAM RADIO OPERATORS WILL BE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TV STATIONS FOR UPDATES ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. 57
Local storm report, Jul 12, 3:26 PM CST, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK, AR
426 PM CDT FRI JUL 12 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0410 PM 5 W RUSSELLVILLE AR .75 INCH HAIL
07/12/02 YELL REPORTED BY PUBLIC
22The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:01 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
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- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 12, 2002
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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: 5311341.