Thunderstorm Wind, Vermilion
- When
- July 22, 8:50 PM CST
- Where
- Vermilion County, Gueydan
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.033, -92.517
Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 22, 2002
Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
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
- $5,000
- 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 happened
The episode as NWS LCH wrote it up.
Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
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 Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 22, 8:40 PM CST, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 8:40 PM CST, 10 minutes before
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
940 PM CDT MON JUL 22 2002
GUST FRONT JUST THROUGH LCH WITH WINDS GUSTING TO 31 KTS. STORM
COMPLEX IS STARTING TO DIE OFF THIS EVE AS IT CONTS TO MOVE TWRDS
THE COAST. ACTVTY IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE GULF. WILL UPDATE THE
ZONES TO REMOVE PRECIP WORDING IN ABT AN HOUR OR SO.
OZONE ACTION DAY FOR HARDIN...JEFFERSON...AND ORANGE COUNTIES OF
SE TX...DECLARED BY TNRCC.
.LCH...NONE.
.PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...
TU WE TH FR TW T F
BPT 74/93 75/93 74/94 76 0202231
LCH 74/93 74/93 76/94 77 -213232
LFT 75/94 76/93 75/93 76 0313141
AEX 75/93 74/93 73/94 76 0224121
K. KUYPERThe 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
- Heat in Maryland, July 22 to 23, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, July 22, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 22, 2002
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 22, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 22, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in North Carolina, July 22, 2002
- Flash Flood in Colorado, July 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 22, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Missouri, July 22, 2002
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5310976.