Name: Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 7, 2002
Start: 2002-07-07T16:45
End: 2002-07-07T16:45
Location: Louisiana

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $4,000
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 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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 7, 2:30 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 2:30 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA
330 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 2002

RADAR IS GETTING BUSY WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS HAVING ALREADY
REACHED STRONG TO SEVERE THRESHOLDS. SURFACE CONVERGENCE HAS
INCREASED ACROSS INLAND SECTIONS OF SOUTH MS NEAR A SURFACE
TROUGH...AND OVER AREAS FROM NEAR MORGAN CITY TO THIBODAUX...ALONG
THE LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN LAKE BREEZE. MAY HAVE TO ISSUE AFTERNOON
PACKAGE WITH A /REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON/ PERIOD IF CONVECTION
BECOMES MORE WIDESPREAD AND SEVERE. OUTSIDE OF THUNDERSTORM
AREAS...HEAT HAS BECOME A PROBLEM WITH HEAT INDICES GENERALLY IN THE
100 TO 105 DEGREE RANGE.

THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOSTLY DIE OFF BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. ON MONDAY...
AN INVERTED MID LEVEL TROUGH MOVING WEST ACROSS THE GULF WILL BRING
ADDITIONAL UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT...HOWEVER...SLIGHTLY LIGHTER WIND
FIELDS ALOFT AND WEAKER PVA SHOULD KEEP SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MORE
ISOLATED THAN TODAY. TEMPERATURES SHOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM REACHING
THE LOWER 90S...BUT SCATTERED CONVECTION COULD GET STARTED A LITTLE
EARLIER. WILL BE MONITORING ANY POTENTIAL TROPICAL DEVELOPMENT IN
THE CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO...BUT THIS SYSTEM WILL HAVE NO IMPACT ON
WEATHER ALONG THE CENTRAL GULF COAST AS IT WILL LIKELY MOVE WEST
TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST MEXICAN OR SOUTH TEXAS COAST.

FOR TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...A WEAK UPPER LEVEL RIDGE TO THE NORTH
WITH WEAK DISTURBANCES IN THE EASTERLIES OVER THE GULF WILL CONTINUE
A SIMILAR PATTERN WITH SCATTERED DIURNAL CONVECTION OVER LAND AND
LATE NIGHT AND MORNING CONVECTION OVER THE COASTAL WATERS.
TEMPERATURES SHOULD REMAIN FAIRLY CLOSE TO NORMAL. ANOTHER WEAK
SURFACE BOUNDARY MAY SAG SOUTH NEAR THE SOUTHWEST MS ZONES THURSDAY
AND FRIDAY AS ANOTHER DEEP UPPER TROUGH MOVES ACROSS THE NORTHEAST
U.S.

MCB 73/92/72/91/73 24242   BTR 73/91/73/90/73 24242
MSY 76/91/75/90/76 14242   GPT 74/89/73/89/74 14242

.NEW...NONE
LA...NONE.
MS...NONE.

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The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Washington

When: July 7, 4:45 PM CST
Where: Washington County, Pine
Property damage: $4,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 30.900, -90.017

Thunderstorm winds partially removed the tin roof of a home.

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.

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The same day elsewhere

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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: 5311243.