1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 25, 2:25 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 325 PM CDT THU JUL 25 2002 AFTERNOON HEATING COMBINED WITH UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE MOVING SWD IN THE NRLY FLOW HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THIS AFTERNOON. WILL THROW IN A REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON PERIOD TO CARRY IN SOME EXTRA POPS TO COVER LATE AFTERNOON ACTIVITY WHICH WILL DECAY QUICKLY AS THE SUN BEGINS TO SET. BEGINNING FRIDAY ON THROUGH THE WEEKEND...WILL BE RETURNING TO A MORE SRLY FLOW REGIME AND ISOLATED MAINLY AFTERNOON ACTIVITY. ON INTO THE EXTENDED...ADDED RAIN CHANCES FOR WED/THU WITH MODEL CONTINUING TO PROG FRONT APPROACHING. WARM TEMPERATURES TO CONTINUE WITH HEAT INDECIES MENTIONED IN HEADLINER BUT NO ADVISORY. FCSTID = 20 SHV 73 95 75 95 / 10 10 0 10 MLU 72 95 73 95 / 10 20 0 20 TXK 74 96 76 95 / 0 0 0 0 TYR 75 96 75 95 / 10 10 0 10 LFK 73 95 73 96 / 20 20 0 20 .SHV...NONE.
TXZ152-153-165>167-252000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 224 PM CDT THU JUL 25 2002 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER DEEP EAST TEXAS... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED OVER DEEP EAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON...IN THE VICINITY OF NACOGDOCHES AND LUFKIN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BRIEFLY BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS THE MAIN WEATHER CONDITION EXPECTED IN THE STORMS. BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO OCCUR IN THESE THUNDERSTORMS... PARTICULARLY IN THE NACOGDOCHES AREA...AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE SLOWLY SOUTH OVER THE AREA.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
409 PM CDT THU JUL 25 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0257 PM NACOGDOCHES TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/25/02 NACOGDOCHES REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0300 PM NACOGDOCHES TX WIND DAMAGE
07/25/02 NACOGDOCHES METAL AWNING BLOWN DOWN AT
GAS STATION. REPORTED BY
SPOTTERS
0310 PM 5 SW NACOGDOCHES TX 65 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
07/25/02 NACOGDOCHES SEVERAL TREES DOWN.
REPORTED BY SPOTTERS
03The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
The City of Monroe's maintenance department arrived at work to find all the clocks and phones damaged from lightning which traveled into the building from an outside power pole. Damage was light and no injuries occurred.
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
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: 5304999.