Name: Hail in Louisiana, July 20, 2002
Start: 2002-07-20T17:35
End: 2002-07-20T17:35
Location: Louisiana

Where it happened

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Wind
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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 20, 1:15 PM CST, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 1:15 PM CST, 4 hours 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
215 PM CDT SAT JUL 20 2002

A FEW SHOWERS THIS AFTERNOON ALONG MOISTURE AXIS EXTENDING ACROSS
SE AR WITH PERHAPS SOME ISOLATED SHOWERS/TSTMS ACROSS NE LA BEFORE
ACTIVITY DISSIPATES SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET. PERSISTENT SHEAR/
INSTABILITY AXIS ACROSS THIS SAME REGION...ISOLATED POPS ALREADY
IN GRIDS SHOULD SUFFICE. DRIER AIR TODAY ACROSS S LA INTO N TX
WITH LOW PRECIP WATER ON 12Z SOUNDINGS SUPPORTIVE OF LITTLE IN
THE WAY OF AFTERNOON CU ON VIS IMAGERY.  THE DRIER AIR ACROSS
N TX CORRESPONDS TO MID LEVEL RIDGE AXIS BEGINNING TO SHIFT NORTH
AND WEST. SHORT TERM MODELS CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THIS SOLUTION
THROUGH SUNDAY AND I HAVE THEREFORE REARRANGED WX GRIDS FOR SUNDAY
AFTERNOON/EVENING FURTHER EAST TO ENCOMPASS OUR PORTION OF SE AR
AND NE LA.

WILL LEAVE MONDAY DRY FOR NOW ALL AREAS AHEAD OF DISTURBANCE
DROPPING OUT OF CENTRAL PLAINS TOWARDS REGION BY LATE TUESDAY.
AVN AND MODEL ENSEMBLE PROGS PER NCEP PMDEPD CONSISTENT WITH
THIS DISTURBANCE AND ASSOCIATED COOL FRONT FOCUSING SHOWER/
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS OUR NORTHERN SECTIONS LATE
TUESDAY...AREAWIDE ON WEDNESDAY AND ACROSS SOUTHERN SECTIONS
ON THURSDAY BEFORE WASHING OUT. STILL HAVE MY DOUBTS ON THIS
SOUTHERN PROGRESSION OF THE FRONT...THEREFORE MY TEMPS GRIDS
WILL CONTINUE HOLDING ONTO MID 90S THROUGHOUT NEXT WEEK YET
WILL ADJUST WX GRIDS TO COINCIDE WITH FRONT. NO MENTION OF
PRECIP FOR FRIDAY OR SAT...BUT HOT TEMPS TO CONTINUE WITH
WEAK N/NE FLOW.

HEAT INDEX VALUES AS OF 19Z AROUND 102/104 RANGE MOST PLACES
WITH A STRAY 100 HERE AND THERE. HAVE LEFT HEAT INDEX HEADLINE
OUT OF ZONES LAST COUPLE OF DAYS BUT DO NOT THINK WE CAN IGNORE
ANYMORE. SOUTHERN ARKANSAS FLIRTING WITH HEAT ADVISORY CRITERIA
WITH OVERNIGHT MIN NEAR 80 LAST COUPLE OF MORNING.

PRELIMS TO FOLLOW...13.

SHV 75/96/76/96 0000
MLU 74/96/75/96 1110
TXK 78/97/77/97 0000
TYR 76/94/76/95 0000
LFK 75/95/75/95 0001

.SHV...NONE.

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:37 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Lincoln

When: July 20, 5:35 PM CST
Where: Lincoln County, 2 mi E of Choudrant
Measured: 1.5 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 32.533, -92.483

Reported at rest stop on I-20.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Louisiana in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Louisiana, 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5304985.