Thunderstorm Wind, Rapides
- When
- March 26, 12:30 AM CST
- Where
- Rapides County, 5 mi E of Pineville
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- UTILITY COMPANY
- Coordinates
- 31.317, -92.350
Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 26, 2002
Trees and power lines were downed.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $5,000
- 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.
Trees and power lines were downed.
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 Mar 25, 8:20 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 8:20 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 820 PM CST MON MAR 25 2002 SVR TSTM WATCH UNTIL 1 AM FOR PORTIONS OF SE TX AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. STRONG COLD FRONT HAS MOVED THROUGH LFK WITH TEMPS FALLING INTO THE UPPER 40S...SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY TEMPS ARE IN THE 70S ATTM. MAIN THREAT LOOKS TO BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND WINDS. TALKING WITH HOU THE VIL OF THE DAY LOOKS TO BE AROUND 45. ZONES HAVE BEEN UPDATED. .LCH...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY GMZ450-455-470-475 .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AEX 52/63/40/68/43/75 500000 BPT 53/68/45/70/51/75 400000 LCH 54/68/45/70/50/75 400000 LFT 60/68/45/70/49/76 420000 K. KUYPER
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 25, 11:57 PM CST, 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES,LA
1157 PM CST MON MAR 25 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1153 PM MARKSVILLE LA HAIL
03/25/02 AVOYELLES DIME AND NICKEL SIZED HAIL
WITH LIMBS DOWN.
DMLThe 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
- Winter Storm in Ohio, March 26, 2002
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, March 26, 2002
- Flooding in Pennsylvania, March 26, 2002
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 26 to 27, 2002
- Winter Storm in New York, March 26, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, March 26, 2002
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 26 to 27, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, March 26, 2002
- Winter Weather in New York, March 26, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 26, 2002
- Ice Storm in New York, March 26, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, March 26, 2002
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, March 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: 5286245.