Thunderstorm Wind, Morgan
- When
- February 20, 12:00 PM EST
- Where
- Morgan County, 10 mi NW of Martinsville
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.533, -86.567
One tree and one power pole downed
Damaging Wind in Indiana, February 20, 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 Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 20, 2:15 AM EST, 9 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 20, 2:15 AM EST, 9 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 215 AM EST WED FEB 20 2002 SFC ANALYSIS EARLY THIS AM SHOWS LOW PRES OVR ERN IA WITH A CD FRONT REACHING ACRS CENTRAL MO TO WRN ARKANSAS. IR PIX SHOW COLDEST CLOUD TOPS ACRS MS AND TN AND A DRY SLOT BEGINNING TO CREEP AHEAD OF THE CD FRONT ACRS ARKANSAS AND MO. H20 IMAGERY SHOWS TROPICAL SOUTHERN BRANCH OF THE JET STREAMING ACRS TN/KY AND IN...WELL AHEAD OF THE FRONT. FCST CHALLENGED TDY WL BE TIMING PCPN. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE MAJOR FEATURES OF THIS SYS. BOTH DEVELOP UPPER LOW OVR THE GRT LKS AND WHICH LINGERS INTO A TROF ACRS THE AREA THRU THURS NIGHT. LATEST RADAR TRENDS INDICATE A DIMINISHING PCPN TREND ACRS IL AND MO AS THE DRYSLOT WORKS IN. EXPECT THIS PCPN TREND TO CONTINUE...HOWEVER WITH THE EXPECTED FROPA THIS AFTERNOON...RE-DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE FRONT LOOKS FAVORABLE WITH STRONG PVA...STRONG SFC CONVERGENCE AND AMPLE MOISTURE. TIME SECTIONS DISPLAY A SATURATED LOWER LVL AIR MASS THROUGH THE FCST PD WITH GOOD VV THIS AFTERNOON WITH FROPA. WL KEEP ONGOING FCST OF TSTM POSSIBLE WITH FROPA. LINGERING MOISTURE LOWER LVL MOISTURE TO BE EXPECTED AS UPPER TROF LINGERS ACRS THE AREA AND CYCLONIC LWR LVL FLOW REMAINS. THIS SHUD GENERATE SOME LIGHT PCPN FOR TONIGHT AND THURS. PCPN TYPE TONIGHT AND THURS MAY BE -SN AS H8 TEMPS DROP QUICKLY AFTER FROPA. BEST CHCS FOR -SN LOOK TO BE NW AS LOWER LVLS ABOVE FREEZING ARE A BIT THICKER ACRS THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH. DOME OF H8 -10C REACHES INDIANA BY THURS NIGHT. WL NOT EXPECT MUCH IN A RISE IN TEMPS ON THURS WITH EXPECTED CLOUDS AND DOME OF CD AIR OVR THE FA. UPPER LOW BEGINS TO PULL NE BY FRI AS RIDGE BEGINS TO BUILD IN FROM THE WEST. WL KEEP CLDS ACRS THE AREA UNTIL AT LEAST FRI MORN. WL CAREFULLY MONITOR TEMPS THIS AM FOR HIGHS AS WE MAY EXCEED FWC VALUES EASILY IF SLOW WARMING TREND CONTINUES. ESPECIALLY IF DRYSLOT WORKS IN. WL STICK CLOSE ON LOWS BUT LEAN COLDER FOR THURSDAY HIGHS AS LITTLE TO NO RISE EXPECTED WITH CLOUDS AND STRONG CAA. .IND...NONE. PUMA
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, February 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Ohio, February 20, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, February 20, 2002
- Dense Fog in Wisconsin, February 20, 2002
- Hail in Kentucky, February 20, 2002
- Winter Storm in Wisconsin, February 20 to 21, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, February 20, 2002
- Winter Storm in Colorado, February 20 to 21, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, February 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kentucky, February 20, 2002
- Flooding in Indiana, February 20 to 27, 2002
- Blizzard and High Wind in Alaska, February 20 to 23, 2002
More
Every storm in Indiana in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, February 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: 5282130.