Thunderstorm Wind, Lonoke
- When
- July 17, 3:05 PM CST
- Where
- Lonoke County, England
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.550, -91.967
Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs and power lines.
Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 17, 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 17, 2:32 PM CST, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 2:32 PM CST, 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 332 PM CDT WED JUL 17 2002 PROBLEMS TODAY CONTINUE TO BE CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION. KLZK RADAR SHOWS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS MUCH OF ARKANSAS. SATELLITE PICTURES SHOW DISSIPATING CLOUDS ACROSS SOUTH ARKANSAS. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS DRY AIR MOVING NORTH INTO TEXAS AND LOUISIANA. HIGH PRESSURE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN U.S. CONTINUES TO TRY TO WORK NORTH AND IS PUSHING THE PRECIPITATION NORTHWARD. ABUNDANT MOISTURE CONTINUES TO STREAM NORTHEAST FROM TEXAS...AROUND THE HIGH...AND INTO ARKANSAS. THE UPPER LEVEL LOW IN MISSOURI WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO ARKANSAS THURSDAY NIGHT AND WILL GIVE NORTHEAST PORTIONS OF THE CWFA THE BEST CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. MODELS ARE IN SIMILAR AGREEMENT BUT BELIEVE THE AVN IS OVERDONE A BIT WITH THE MOISTURE. WILL USE A BLEND OF ETA AND AVN AS FAR AS QPF IS CONCERNED. THIS NEXT SYSTEM WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA. SEVERAL SHORT WAVES WILL COME ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PART OF THE AREA SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. WITH PLENTY OF CLOUDS AROUND THURSDAY...WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES IN THE 80S. FWC LOW TEMPERATURES LOOK GOOD BUT WENT COOLER ON THE HIGHS. .LZK...NONE. 51
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 42 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:07 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
- Heat in Missouri, July 17, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, July 17, 2002
- Flash Flood in New Mexico, July 17, 2002
- Wildfire in California, July 17, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 17, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Montana, July 17, 2002
- Hail in Nevada, July 17, 2002
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 17, 2002
- Hail in North Dakota, July 17, 2002
- Waterspout in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, July 17, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 17, 2002
- Wildfire in Utah, July 17 to 31, 2002
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5311432.