Thunderstorm Wind, Montgomery
- When
- March 15, 3:40 PM CST
- Where
- Montgomery County, 5 mi SE of Caddo Gap
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- INSURANCE COMPANY
- Coordinates
- 34.350, -93.550
Thunderstorm winds demolished a carport.
Damaging Wind in Arkansas, March 15, 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 Mar 15, 3:27 PM CST, 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 3:27 PM CST, 13 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 327 PM CST FRI MAR 15 2002 FORECAST CONCERNS: SVR WX POTENTIAL EARLY...THEN TEMP AND POP TRENDS. CURRENT SFC/MSAS DATA SHOWS FRONT HAS MADE A LITTLE SEWD PROGRESS FROM THIS MRNG. CURRENTLY THE BNDRY RUNS FROM KARG...TO KRUE...TO KMWT TO KDEQ. A SFC WAVE WAS ALSO NOTED OVER SWRN AR. CAP TO THE SOUTH OF THE FRONT WILL WEAKEN CONTINUE TO THIS EVENING AS UPPER SUPPORT/COLDER AIR ALOFT MOVE INTO THE FA. ALREADY SEE SOME TSRA STARTING TO FIRE OVER CNTRL AND SWRN AR. MEANWHILE...ELEVATED CONVECTION CONTINUES TO AFFECT WRN AND NRN AR...N OF THE BNDRY. MODELS ARE IN DECENT AGREEMENT WITH OVERALL FCST TRENDS FOR THE PERIOD. UPPER FLOW STILL PROGGED TO REMAIN FROM THE SW FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. SEVERAL UPPER LEVEL SYSTEMS MOVING THRU THE UPPER FLOW WILL BRING PERIODS OF UNSETTLED WX THRU THE WEEKEND. TIMING OF EACH RAIN EVENT WILL BE A HEADACHE FOR THIS FCST. WENT WITH A BLEND OF THE ETA AND AVN FOR THIS PACKAGE. SFC LOW WILL TRACK NEWD THIS EVENING...THIS SHOULD ALLOW CDFNT TO WORK THRU THE REST OF THE FA TONIGHT. WILL CONTINUE WITH SCATTERED POPS OVER WRN AND NRN ZONES MAINLY EARLY TNGT...WITH LIKELY POPS ELSEWHERE. SOMEWHAT COOLER AND DRIER AIR WILL MOVE IN BEHIND THE FRONT OVERNIGHT AND MUCH OF SATURDAY. NEXT UPPER SYSTEM WILL BRING A CHANCE OF SHRA TO MOST AREAS SATURDAY NIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY...AS SFC FRONT DRIFTS NWD. THEN EXPECT ANOTHER BREAK IN THE PRECIP FOR MUCH OF THE DAY ON SUNDAY. YET ANOTHER UPPER SYSTEM WILL BRING MORE RAIN CHANCES TO THE REGION MONDAY INTO EARLY TUESDAY. FRONT FINALLY GETS A GOOD PUSH SEWD BY MIDWEEK. MAJOR DIFFERENCES NOTED IN THE LONGER RANGE MODELS...SO CONFIDENCE IS NOT HIGH ATTM. TEMPS WILL BE A CHALLENGING THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD. CLOUDS/RAIN WILL KEEP TEMPS DOWN...ESPECIALLY OVER SERN AR. TRENDED WITH MOS FOR TEMPS ALL PERIODS. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED OVER MUCH OF AR...THE ADDITIONAL RAIN OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS WILL AGGRAVATE THE FLOODING POTENTIAL. SH ISSUED AN ESF FOR THE REGION TO COVER THIS POTENTIAL. ..44.. .LZK...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 15, 1:00 PM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-160000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 100 PM CST FRI MAR 15 2002 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL BUT EXTREME NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FROM THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. STRONG SOUTH WINDS HAVE BROUGHT AN UNSEASONABLY WARM AND HUMID AIRMASS TO THE NATURAL STATE. A STRONG...SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. AS TEMPERATURES CONTINUE TO RISE WELL INTO THE 70S AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT...THE AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE TO BECOME QUITE UNSTABLE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AS STRONG JET STREAM WINDS REACH THE MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. THE STORMS WILL MOVE QUICKLY NORTHEAST...AND ARE EXPECTED TO EXIT MOST OF ARKANSAS BY MIDNIGHT. DUE TO THE INSTABILITY OF THE AIRMASS...AND COLD TEMPERATURES ALOFT...THE PRIMARY THREAT IS EXPECTED TO BE LARGE HAIL. THERE MAY ALSO BE A THREAT OF DAMAGING WINDS IF THE STORMS ARE ABLE TO ORGANIZE INTO A LINE...BUT THIS IS MORE LIKELY TO OCCUR AFTER THE STORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF ARKANSAS. THERE IS NOT MUCH CHANGE IN WIND DIRECTION WITH HEIGHT...SO THE THREAT OF TORNADOES IS MINIMAL. HOWEVER...ONE OR TWO TORNADOES CANNOT BE RULED OUT. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS...AND AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. 57
Special weather statement, Mar 15, 1:00 PM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-160000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 100 PM CST FRI MAR 15 2002 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL BUT EXTREME NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. STRONG SOUTH WINDS HAVE BROUGHT AN UNSEASONABLY WARM AND HUMID AIRMASS TO THE NATURAL STATE. A STRONG...SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. AS TEMPERATURES CONTINUE TO RISE WELL INTO THE 70S AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT...THE AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE TO BECOME QUITE UNSTABLE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AS STRONG JET STREAM WINDS REACH THE MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. THE STORMS WILL MOVE QUICKLY NORTHEAST...AND ARE EXPECTED TO EXIT MOST OF ARKANSAS BY MIDNIGHT. DUE TO THE INSTABILITY OF THE AIRMASS...AND COLD TEMPERATURES ALOFT...THE PRIMARY THREAT IS EXPECTED TO BE LARGE HAIL. THERE MAY ALSO BE A THREAT OF DAMAGING WINDS IF THE STORMS ARE ABLE TO ORGANIZE INTO A LINE...BUT THIS IS MORE LIKELY TO OCCUR AFTER THE STORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF ARKANSAS. THERE IS NOT MUCH CHANGE IN WIND DIRECTION WITH HEIGHT...SO THE THREAT OF TORNADOES IS MINIMAL. HOWEVER...ONE OR TWO TORNADOES CANNOT BE RULED OUT. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS...AND AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. 57
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:40 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
- Avalanche in Colorado, March 15, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, March 15 to 16, 2002
- Heat in Georgia, March 15 to 21, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kentucky, March 15, 2002
- Winter Storm in Michigan, March 15, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, March 15, 2002
- Blizzard in Alaska, March 15 to 16, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, March 15 to 17, 2002
- Frost and Freeze in California, March 15, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Washington, March 15 to 17, 2002
- Blizzard and High Wind in Alaska, March 15, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Washington, March 15 to 17, 2002
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, March 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: 5286948.