1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 23, 10:00 AM CST, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 1100 AM CDT TUE JUL 23 2002 A WEAK MID/UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OR CYCLONIC SHEAR AXIS RESIDING FROM CENTRAL GEORGIA TO SOUTH MISSISSIPPI. NO CUMULUS CLOUD FIELD YET. AT 15Z...SURFACE TEMPERATURES ARE RUNNING 2 TO 4F COOLER THAN 24 HOURS AGO. MORNING PACKAGE IS OK FOR NOW. WILL REMOVE MORNING WORDING. MCB 92/71/92/71 5252 BTR 93/72/92/72 5252 MSY 92/74/92/74 5252 GPT 90/72/91/73 5252 .NEW...NONE LA...NONE. MS...NONE. 18
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS, LA
858 AM CDT TUE JUL 23 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0315 PM NORCO LA WIND DAMAGE
07/22/02 ST. CHARLES THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
DOWNED SEVERAL TREES ON
POWERLINES REPORTED BY ST.
CHARLES EMERGENCY
PREPAREDNESS.LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-241200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1100 AM CDT TUE JUL 23 2002 .SYNOPSIS...A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER THE SOUTHEAST UNITED STATES AND GULF COAST REGION WILL AGAIN RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. .THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. IN ADDITION TO FREQUENT LIGHTNING...SOME OF THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. .ACTIONS... NONE AT THIS TIME. FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/LIX (ALL LOWER CASE).
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees were blown down including some which fell on houses.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Louisiana in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, July 2002
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