Thunderstorm Wind, Allen
- When
- July 23, 5:21 PM CST
- Where
- Allen County, Kinder
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- UTILITY COMPANY
- Coordinates
- 30.483, -92.850
Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 23, 2002
Several 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.
Several 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 23, 3:35 PM CST, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 3:35 PM CST, 1 hour 46 minutes before
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
435 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2002
LOOKS LIKE A REPEAT OF LAST NIGHT MAY BE SETTING UP ACROSS THE
REGION WITH THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY DEVELOPING A LITTLE EARLIER THAN
EXPECTED.
THE FOCUS OF THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL LIKELY OCCUR WHERE
NUMEROUS OUTFLOWS CONVERGE AND SIGNIFICANT LIFT OCCURS.
THE STRONGEST OUTFLOW CONVERGENCE NEAR ALLEN AND BEAUREGARD
PARISHES WILL BE THE MAIN FOCUS OF STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT
INITIALLY THIS AFTERNOON WITH FUTURE DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED FURTHER
SOUTH AS THE EVENING PROGRESSES.
WILL UPDATE THE ZONES ACCORDINGLY.
.LCH...NONE.
.UPDATED NUMBERS...
WE TH FR SA T W T F
BPT 74/94 75/94 76/94 77 4313242
LCH 75/94 74/93 76/93 77 4413342
LFT 75/94 76/94 75/93 77 2425252
AEX 74/93 74/92 74/95 76 4425341
MAYEAUX/ALLENThe radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 53 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:18 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
- Rip Current in Florida, July 23, 2002
- Rip Current in North Carolina, July 23, 2002
- Heat in California, July 23, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, July 23, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, July 23, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Maine, July 23, 2002
- Flash Flood in Alaska, July 23, 2002
- Flash Flood in Colorado, July 23, 2002
- Dust Storm and Damaging Winds in Arizona, July 23, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 23, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 23, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 23, 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: 5310980.