Name: Hail in Louisiana, March 30, 2002
Start: 2002-03-30T21:15
End: 2002-03-30T21:15
Location: Louisiana

Where it happened

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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 30, 9:05 PM CST, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 9:05 PM CST, 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
905 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002

LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH EXTREME EAST
TEXAS AND NORTH LOUISIANA AT THIS TIME. UPPER LOW SPINNING ACROSS
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING
WITH THE UPPER LOW. ACTIVITY WITH UPPER LOW SHOULD MOVE INTO THE
NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA...NORTH AND EAST OF THE UPPER
LOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. NEW TORNADO WATCH FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL
LOUISIANA AND PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL TEXAS. WILL UPDATE ZONES FOR NEW
WATCH AND LOWER RAIN CHANCES IN NORTHEAST TEXAS BEHIND LINE FROM
ABOUT IDABEL OKLAHOMA SOUTH TO NACOGDOCHES TEXAS. HEAVIEST RAIN WILL
CONTINUE WITH THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST TEXAS...AND
NORTH LOUISIANA.

.SHV...FFA THROUGH TONIGHT...
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-OKZ077-TXZ096-097-
108>112-124>126-136>138-149>151.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 30, 4:40 PM CST, 4 hours 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
440 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0750 AM    2 W ATLANTA               TX   WIND DAMAGE
03/30/02   CASS                           DOWNBURST WINDS OF 80-100 MPH
                                          ON WEST AND SOUTH SIDE OF
                                          ATLANTA INITIAL DAMAGE PATH
                                          MEASURED 3/4 MILE IN
                                          DIAMETER...WITH ENDING PATH
                                          MEASURING 3.3 MILES WIDE TOTAL
                                          DAMAGE PATH MEASURED WAS 5.1 MILES
                                          LONG REPORT FROM NWS SURVEY

0755 AM    ATLANTA                   TX   WIND DAMAGE
03/30/02   CASS                           DOWNBURST WINDS PARTIALLY
                                          STRIPPED A MCDONALDS SIGN
                                          AWNING COLLAPSED ON A CAR
                                          AT A TEXACO STATION PINE
                                          TREE MEASURING 1/2 - 1 FOOT
                                          IN DIAMETER UPROOTED A GAS
                                          MAIN IN ATLANTA TREES ON
                                          HOUSES ALONG HWY 251 JUST
                                          SOUTH OF ATLANTA REPORT
                                          FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT

0815 AM    DODDRIDGE                 AR   WIND DAMAGE
03/30/02   MILLER                         ROOF AND INSOLATION BLOWN
                                          OFF A HOUSE IN THE BRIGHT
                                          STAR COMMUNITY PORCH WAS
                                          BLOWN DOWN NUMEROUS TREES
                                          DOWN OVER ROADS REPORT
                                          FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT

0855 AM    SHREVEPORT                LA   NON TSTM WIND GUST
03/30/02   CADDO                          ASSOCIATED WITH COLD
                                          FRONTAL PASSAGE AWNINGS
                                          WERE BLOWN OFF IN PARKING
                                          LOT AT HARRAHS CASINO IN
                                          DOWNTOWN SHREVEPORT ROOF
                                          DAMAGE SUSTAINED AT PARKING
                                          GARAGE AT THE CASINO 1 CAR
                                          DAMAGED IN GARAGE REPORT
                                          FROM OEP

0930 AM    1 S NASHVILLE             AR   FLOODING
03/30/02   HOWARD                         INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 27 AND
                                          TRENTON BLVD WAS UNDERWATER
                                          REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT

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The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 55 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:17 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Webster

When: March 30, 9:15 PM CST
Where: Webster County, Minden
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 32.617, -93.283

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Louisiana in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5281274.