Name: Damaging Wind in Arkansas, May 26, 2002
Start: 2002-05-26T11:55
End: 2002-05-26T11:55
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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 26, 9:43 AM CST, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 9:43 AM CST, 2 hours 12 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1043 AM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002

MOST CURRENT SFC DATA SHOWS ILL-DEFINED SFC BNDRY OVER SRN AR ATTM.
DEWPOINTS HAVE FALLEN INTO THE 50S OVER NRN AR...WITH 60S COMMON IN
THE CNTRL AND SRN PARTS OF THE FA.

EXPECT ONGOING CONVECTION OVER WRN AR WILL GRADUALLY WEAKEN FURTHER
THROUGH MIDDAY. RESIDUAL SFC BNDRY/S WILL BE FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL
SHRA/TSRA DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTN. CURRENT POP FCST FOR THIS AFTN
LOOKS GOOD. WILL TWEAK TEMP AND CLOUD TRENDS AFTER 16Z OBS ARRIVE.
UPDATES WILL BE OUT SHORTLY AFTER THE TOP OF THE HOUR. ..44..

.LZK...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 7:40 AM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
840 AM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0302 AM    3 SE WHITEHALL            AR   .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/02   JEFFERSON                      REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT.

0800 AM    BRINKLEY                  AR   .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/02   MONROE                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT.

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The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 90 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:52 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Garland

When: May 26, 11:55 AM CST
Where: Garland County, Lake Hamilton
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 34.417, -93.100

Some trees were blown down.

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, May 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: 5295888.