Name: Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 14, 2002
Start: 2002-07-14T14:30
End: 2002-07-14T14:30
Location: Arkansas

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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 happened

The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.

Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and large tree limbs around Arkadelphia...with one tree limb falling through a windshield of a van.

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 14, 2:00 PM CST, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 2:00 PM CST, 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
300 PM CDT SUN JUL 14 2002

THERE REALLY ARENT MUCH CHANGES TO TALK ABOUT IN THE SHORT
TERM...OR REALLY THE EXTENDED FOR THAT MATTER. SURFACE FRONT NOW
FROM BETWEEN KDEQ-KTXK TO AROUND KPBF PER LATEST SURFACE OBS...AND IT
REALLY HASNT MOVED MUCH SINCE THIS MORNING. SCATTERED CONVECTION
FIRED UP THIS AFTERNOON CLOSE TO THE FRONT...MAINLY OVER CENTRAL
ARKANSAS.

WILL HAVE 50 PERCENT POPS TONIGHT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH...AND 40
PERCENT POPS NORTHERN ZONES WHERE THINGS ARE SLIGHTLY MORE STABLE.
EXPECT PATCHY FOG TO FORM ONCE AGAIN TONIGHT DUE TO WET GROUND AND
LIGHT WINDS.

PRECIPITABLE WATER IS NEAR TWO INCHES...AND LOW AND MID LEVEL FLOW
IS STILL RELATIVELY WEAK. STORMS THIS EVENING MAY PRODUCE BRIEF
HEAVY RAINFALL...BUT AM NOT EXPECTING MUCH OF ANYTHING ELSE.

HAVE USED A BLEND OF FWC/MAV/MET TEMPS. TEMPERATURES WILL STILL BE
DIFFICULT DUE TO VARIABLE CLOUDINESS.

RAIN CHANCES CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY. GULF HIGH PRESSURE PUSHES
ONSHORE ON COASTAL LOUISIANA/MISSISSIPPI ON TUESDAY. THIS WILL PUSH
UPPER LOW OFF TO THE NORTHWEST. FAIRLY DECENT UPPER TROF
FORMS...AND UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS GET GOING PRETTY GOOD OUT AHEAD OF
IT. AS HIGH MOVES ALONG THE COAST...IT SHOULD ACT TO PUSH UPPER
SYSTEM OFF TO THE EAST AND DIMINISH RAIN CHANCES WEDNESDAY EVENING.

SHOULD SEE SOME DIURNAL THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY...AS MOISTURE WILL
STILL BE ABUNDANT...AND UPPER SUPPORT WILL BE PRESENT. HIGH PRESSURE
WILL MOVE IN BRIEFLY. WILL LEAVE POPS OUT FOR FRIDAY...AS THERE
DOESNT APPEAR TO BE MUCH UPWARD MOTION. NORTHWESTERLY FLOW WILL SET
UP DUE TO HIGH OVER WEST...AND WILL BRING THE NEXT SYSTEM. SHOULD
SEE TSRA DURING THE DAY SATURDAY. UPPER HIGH WILL EXERT ITS
INFLUENCE ON SUNDAY...AND I WILL LEAVE A DRY FORECAST FOR THEN.

ONLY MADE MINOR TWEAKS TO EXTENDED TEMPERATURES.

FCSTID = 57
HRO   68  86  68  90 /  40  40  30  40
LIT   70  89  72  91 /  50  40  30  40
HOT   70  89  72  91 /  50  40  30  40
PBF   71  90  73  92 /  50  40  30  40

.LZK...NONE.

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 109 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:32 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Clark

When: July 14, 2:30 PM CST
Where: Clark County, Arkadelphia
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 34.117, -93.067

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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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: 5311598.