1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Mar 11, 9:00 PM CST, 5 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 900 PM CST MON MAR 11 2002 WILL MAKE NO CHANGES TO THE LAST UPDATE ISSUED EARLIER. SEVERAL BANDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE FOUR STATE REGION. COLDER AIR ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM MOVING ACROSS NORTH TEXAS AND INTO THE FORECAST AREA HAS HELPED PRODUCE NEW THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS. WOULD THINK THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE BECOMING MORE POSSIBLE AS THIS SYSTEM MOVES OVER REGION. THE MAIN THREAT WOULD BE HAIL AS THE SYSTEM MOVES EAST. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MENTIONED IN CURRENT ZONES SO WILL NOT UPDATE. 06 .SHV...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
835 PM CST MON MAR 11 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0820 AM CONVERSE LA LIGHTNING
03/11/02 SABINE LIGHTNING STRUCK A MAN INSIDE
HIS HOME. THE MAN WAS REPORTED
TO BE CONSCIOUS. REPORT FROM
LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
1259 AM CST TUE MAR 12 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0030 AM TYLER TX .75 INCH HAIL
03/12/02 SMITH REPORTED BY TV
METEOROLOGIST
0033 AM TYLER TX .75 INCH HAIL
03/12/02 SMITH REPORTED BY TRAINED
SPOTTER
BASThe Shreveport radar (KSHV), 34 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:58 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning caused a fire at the 8th Air Force Headquarters on Barksdale Air Force Base. The fire burned for more than 12 hours doing major damage to the third floor of the structure.
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, March 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: 5281191.