Thunderstorm Wind, St. Martin
- When
- July 7, 6:25 PM CST
- Where
- St. Martin County, Breaux Bridge
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- AIRPLANE PILOT
- Coordinates
- 30.267, -91.900
Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 7, 2002
Numerous trees were blown down in Breaux Bridge and St. Martinville.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- 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 were blown down in Breaux Bridge and St. Martinville.
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 7, 12:13 PM CST, 6 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 12:13 PM CST, 6 hours 12 minutes before
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA...UPDATE 113 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 2002 UPDATED ZONES AGAIN...EXTENDED HEAT ADVISORY INTO SOUTHERN ZONES AS DEWPOINTS HOLD IN THE UPPER 70S WITH TEMPS INTO THE MID 90S. ...1245 PM DISC... UNFORTUNATELY THE TEMPERATURES IN THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE AREA HAVING CONTINUED TO SOAR UNDER A LIGHT EAST TO NORTHEAST WIND. DEWPOINTS IN THE UPPER 70S TO NEAR 80 GIVE HEAT INDICES NEAR 115 DEGREES. ISSUED A HEAT ADVISORY FOR THE NORTHERN ZONES AS CONDITIONS WILL NOT ABATE UNTIL EARLY THIS EVENING. WILL UPDATE FORECAST FOR UPPER 90S IN THE NORTHERN ZONES. .LCH...NONE. .UPDATED NUMBERS... AEX 97/73/94/73/94/74 213141 BPT 94/75/92/74/93/76 214141 LCH 94/75/93/75/93/76 214141 LFT 94/74/93/75/92/75 214141 06 PREVIOUS DISCUSSION AT 930 AM: SEE NO SUPRISES THIS AFTERNOON. AREA UNDER NEGATIVE VORTICITY ADVECTION AND CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURE ON LCH SOUNDING UP TO 90. K- INDEX OF 24 WOULD ONLY SUPPORT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. ANOTHER HOT DAY IS ON TAP FOR THE CWA. CURRENT FORECAST PACKAGE LOOKS GOOD. WILL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES. STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THIS IS IN THE FORECAST. .LCH...NONE. .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AEX 96/73/94/73/94/74 213141 BPT 94/75/92/74/93/76 214141 LCH 94/75/93/75/93/76 214141 LFT 94/74/93/75/92/75 214141 06
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 2:36 PM CST, 3 hours 49 minutes before
LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-080200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 336 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 2002 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL POSSIBLE TONIGHT... STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES FROM THE EAST. AN ABUNDANCE OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND VERY WARM TEMPERATURES WILL ENSURE THAT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE AT LEAST UNTIL MIDNIGHT. THE MAIN PROBLEM WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WILL ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WITH 1 INCH TO 2 INCH AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..COMMERCIAL TELEVISION OR RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN ALSO BE OBTAINED THROUGH OUR HOME PAGE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/LCH.
The 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 Illinois, July 7 to 8, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Idaho, July 7, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Washington, July 7, 2002
- Flash Flood in Minnesota, July 7 to 8, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 7, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Washington, July 7, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 7, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, July 7, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 7, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Minnesota, July 7 to 9, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Washington, July 7, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oregon, July 7, 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: 5312302.