Name: Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 14, 2002
Start: 2002-07-14T18:17
End: 2002-07-14T18:17
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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 14, 12:45 PM CST, 5 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 12:45 PM CST, 5 hours 32 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
145 PM CDT SUN JUL 14 2002

SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS AN UPPER LOW SPINNING ACROSS WESTERN
ARKANSAS.  THIS FEATURE WILL MEANDER ACROSS SOUTHEAST
OKLAHOMA/WESTERN ARKANSAS TONIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY...BEFORE MOVING
NORTH INTO NORTH ARKANSAS AND SOUTHERN MISSOURI...BY MONDAY NIGHT.
THEN BY TUESDAY...THE FORECAST AREA WILL BE BETWEEN A TROUGH AXIS
FROM W TEXAS...INTO MISSOURI...AND A RIDGE TO THE EAST.

WITH THE PROXIMITY OF THE UPPER LOW...AND A WEAK BOUNDARY ACROSS THE
REGION ON MONDAY...SCATTERED CONVECTION IS ONCE AGAIN
EXPECTED...ESPECIALLY IN THE AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING.

AS THE UPPER LOW SHIFTS NORTH...AND A RIDGE BUILDS INTO THE REGION
FROM THE EAST...A DEEP SOUTHERLY FLOW IS EXPECTED TO SET UP LATE
MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY.  MODELS SHOW A SOUTHERLY 20 TO 30 KT LOW
LEVEL JET DEVELOPING AND SOME UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE ON
TUESDAY...ESPECIALLY ACROSS EAST TEXAS.  THUS WILL KEEP CHANCE POPS
IN THE FORECAST ON TUESDAY.

BY WEDNESDAY...POPS WILL BE SLIGHT ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF
THE FORECAST AREA...BUT WILL CONTINUE CHANCE ACROSS THE NORTHERN
SECTIONS OF THE REGION...AS MORE MOISTURE WILL BE AVAILABLE AND A
WEAK SHEAR AXIS WILL BE PRESENT.

IN THE EXTENDED...THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE
WILL BUILD INTO THE AREA AND DOMINATE THE WEATHER PATTERN.  THIS
WILL RESULT IN MAINLY DRY WEATHER WITH AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES
RETURNING TO THE MID 90S.  HOWEVER...A WEAK TROUGH AXIS WILL SKIRT
THE NORTH AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE REGION ON FRIDAY...WHICH WILL
RESULT IN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF CONVECTION.  ISOLATED SUMMERTIME
CONVECTION IS ALSO POSSIBLE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.

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PRELIMS...
SHV 71/89/72/89  3435
MLU 71/88/72/89  3435
TXK 72/88/73/88  3435
TYR 72/89/73/87  3445
LFK 71/90/73/88  3445

.SHV...NONE.

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:17 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Union

When: July 14, 6:17 PM CST
Where: Union County, Junction City
Measured: 58 kt (67 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 33.017, -92.733

Several large trees down in town.

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, July 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: 5304893.