1 heat, 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 8, 1:00 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA ISSUED BY NWS JACKSON MS 200 PM CDT MON JUL 8 2002 FOR TONIGHT...DERIVED ANALYSES AND SATELLITE CONTINUE TO INDICATE THAT CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT SHOULD OCCUR REST OF THE AFTERNOON. STEEP LAPSE RATES AND STRONG INSTABILITY COULD SUPPORT A FEW ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS. COVERAGE SHOULD NOT BE TOO WIDESPREAD...PLAN TO CARRY 20 PERCENT POPS IN TONIGHT PERIOD TO COVER ANY LEFTOVER STORMS. ETA/AVN MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT ON EVOLUTION OF PATTERN NEXT FEW DAYS. UPPER HIGH WILL CONTINUE RETROGRESSION INTO INTERMOUNTAIN WEST REGION WHILE INTENSIFYING. WEATHER NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS WILL CONTINUE TO BE CONTROLLED BY RIDGE EXTENDING WEST/EAST FROM UPPER HIGH INTO MID MISSISIPPI VALLEY...WITH AREA ON S SIDE OF RIDGE. MID LEVEL STREAMLINE FORECASTS INDICATE THAT FLOW WILL BECOME A LITTLE MORE SE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER INDICATING A GRADUAL INCREASE IN MOISTURE. THIS WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED DIURNAL CONVECTION OVER MOST AREAS NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...WENT A LITTLE LOWER POPS NORTHERN ZONES WHERE MOISTURE SHOULD BE A BIT LESS. MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES FORECAST TO BE A LITTLE LESS STEEP NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...WHICH SHOULD YIELD A SOMEWHAT LOWER RISK OF ANY SEVERE STORMS ACROSS AREA. AS FAR AS TEMPERATURES...WENT CLOSE TO AVN MOS NUMBERS THROUGH THE SHORT TERM. WILL CONTINUE TO HIGHLIGHT HEAT INDICES NEAR 105 FOR TUESDAY. A TRANSITION PATTERN IS FORECAST BEYOND MIDWEEK...AS STRONG UPPER LOW DROPS DOWN EAST SIDE OF INTENSE INTERMOUNTAIN UPPER RIDGE. THIS WILL RESULT IN A BREAKDOWN OF CURRENT PATTERN...WITH TROUGHINESS FORECAST TO DEVELOP ACROSS REGION. WILL GO WITH CHANCE POPS MOST AREAS THURSDAY AS UPPER SYSTEM APPROACHES. UPPER TROUGH AXIS SETS UP ACROSS FORECAST AREA PER AVN MODEL...WITH NORTHERN ZONES FORECAST TO BE ALONG/N OF AXIS WITH LESS DEEP MOISTURE. WILL GO SLIGHT CHANCE POPS IN NORTH...CHANCE POPS IN THE SOUTH IN THE EXTENDED. PRELIM NUMBERS... SHV 75/95/74/92 2323 MLU 74/93/74/92 2323 TXK 75/95/74/92 -223 TYR 75/94/74/91 2223 LFK 72/94/73/91 2323 .SHV...NONE.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
Construction worker was found beside his vehicle at a construction site in Bossier Parish around 1330 CST and pronounced dead at 1430 CST. Heat stress was assumed as the cause of death.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heat, Bossier | 2002-07-08 | 44 | Male | Outside/Open Areas | Direct |
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5304786.