Thunderstorm Wind, Craighead
- When
- July 30, 12:15 PM CST to 12:20 PM CST
- Where
- Craighead County, Brookland
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 35.900, -90.583
A few trees were blown down.
Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Arkansas, July 30, 2002
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- $55,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 30, 9:06 AM CST, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 9:06 AM CST, 3 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1006 AM CDT TUE JUL 30 2002 SHEAR AXIS FM THE OH VALLEY TO NW AR THIS MORNING. TSTMS TRYING TO DEVELOP ACRS NE AR WHILE MORE ORGANIZED CONVECTION STRETCHES ACRS WRN AR. UNSTABLE AIRMASS WITH DECENT MOISTURE SHOULD ALLOW FOR AFTN DEVELOPMENT...ESPECIALLY ACRS NE AR INVOF OF SHEAR AXIS. SHEAR AXIS WL DRIFT SE INTO THE CWFA THROUGH THE AFTN AND EVENING PROVIDING A TRIGGER FOR TSTMS. CURRENT FORECAST ON TRACK. WL UPDATE TO REMOVE AFTN WORDING. MEG...NONE. SJM
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 89 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:13 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning, Poinsett
- When
- July 30, 12:30 PM CST to 12:35 PM CST
- Where
- Poinsett County, Trumann
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 35.574, -90.663 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
The Providence Baptist Church in Trumann was destroyed by a fire started by lightning.
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.
- Lightning
- A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Wisconsin, July 30, 2002
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, July 30, 2002
- Heat in Arkansas, July 30, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, July 30, 2002
- Hail in Nebraska, July 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, July 30, 2002
- Lightning Strikes in Tennessee, July 30, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 30, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 30 to 31, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 30, 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: 5311757, 5311758.