Thunderstorm Wind, Grant
- When
- July 19, 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Grant County, Jonesboro
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.483, -85.633
Newspaper report of trees and power lines down in Jonesboro.
Damaging Wind in Indiana, July 19, 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 Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 19, 2:20 PM EST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 2:20 PM EST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 220 PM EST FRI JUL 19 2002 SHORT TERM... PRIMARY FCST CHALLENGES ARE TSRA CHC FOR EARLY TONIGHT...THEN POPS SUN THRU MON. LATEST MSAS ANALYSIS INDICATED LOW PRES CNTR OVR N CNTRL OH...WITH TROF OF LOW PRES EXTENDING ACRS CNTRL IN INTO SRN IL. CDFNT WAS STRETCHED OUT OVER EXTRM SRN LWR MI AND NRN IL...WITH DWPTS DROPPING OFF QUICKLY N OF BNDRY. MSAS DATA INDICATED LI VALUES TO MINUS 8 OVR CWFA...WITH BEST MOISTURE CONVERGENCE OVR SERN SXNS. 88D NETWORK INDICATED WIDELY SCT TRW OVR CWFA...WITH BULK OF CONVECTION FOCUSED ALONG PRE-FRONTAL TROF. WITH WK MID LVL SHORTWAVE AND TROF EXITING RGN THIS EVENING...WL LOSE ANY FORCING. THUS...WITH LOSS OF HEATING...ANY WIDELY SCT TRW SHOULD DISSIPATE EARLY. ALL CONSIDERED...WL MENTION SCT TRW EARLY FOR SRN 2/3 OF CWFA. ELSEWHERE...WL KEEP DRY. ATTENTION THEN TURNS TO SUN THRU MON PD. FIRST MID LVL SHORTWAVE WL START TO BREAK DOWN 5H RDG ON SUN...WITH MOISTURE RETURNING AT THAT TIME. AVN LIKELY TOO STRONG WITH FIRST SHORTWAVE AS IT ITS USUAL BIAS...BUT WL HOLD ON TO LOW CHC POPS GIVEN DECENT INSTABILITY. WL CONT WITH CHC POPS FOR SUN NIGHT. STRONG MID LVL SHORTWAVE AND CDFNT WL CROSS RGN ON MON WITH UPPER JET HELP ALSO INDICATED...SO FAVOR HIGH CHC FOR TSRA. GIVEN PROGGED INSTABILITY AND WND FIELDS...APPEARS FAVORABLE FOR SVR STORMS AS WELL. LOW TEMP FCST DIFFICULT FOR TONIGHT AS NOT SURE HOW MUCH DRY AIR CAN ADVECT IN FM N GIVEN WK FLOW. ETA NUMBERS LOOK BEST GIVEN TRAJECTORIES...SO WL STAY CLOSE. AVN...ETA AND FWC MOS NUMBERS HAVE ALL PICKED UP ON WARMER TEMP TREND FOR SAT AND SUN...SO WL STAY CLOSE. EXTENDED... BASED ON TIMING OF CDFNT...WL HAVE CHC FOR RW/TRW MON NIGHT...BUT TUE DAYTIME PD SHOULD BE DRY. DRY WEATHER WL CONT UNTIL NEXT COLD FRONT ARRIVES THU OR FRI...WITH MODELS BUILDING 5H TROF OVR GRTLKS AND OH VLY. FOR SAKE OF CONTINUITY...WL KEEP THU DRY AND JUST MENTION RW/TRW ON FRI. .IWX...NONE. BARJENBRUCH/SE
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:01 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
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, July 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Delaware, July 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New York, July 19, 2002
- Flash Flood in Indiana, July 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Massachusetts, July 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Ohio, July 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, July 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 19, 2002
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 19, 2002
- Flooding and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 19, 2002
More
Every storm in Indiana in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, 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: 5306546.