1 tornado, 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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 5, 1:45 AM CST, 8 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA
145 AM CST TUE NOV 5 2002
MODELS FAIRLY CLOSE FOR A CHANGE WITH ETA A TAD SLOWER THAN AVN IN
MOVING COLD FRONT EAST OF OUR CWA...@ 3HOURS. FINALLY...LOOK LIKE
ALL ELEMENTS ARE GETTING INTO SINK FOR A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
EVENT...850MB JET UP OF 40 - 50 KT FORECAST BY AVN MODEL LOOKS ON
TRACK. LCH 00Z RAOB ALREASDT SHOWS 40KT AT 850 FOR 00Z RUN. THIS
SHOULD BRING PRECIPITABLE WATER LEVELS ABOVE 2 INCHES TODAY. 250MB
JET AXIS IS A TAD TOO FAR TO WEST AT 12Z. HOWEVER...BY 18Z AS
SURFACE BOUNDARY APPROACHES...SOUTH CENTRAL LA AND SOUTHWEST MS
BEGIN TO FALL UNDER FAVORABLE RIGHT REAR QUADRANT FOR MAXIMUM
DIFLUENCE ALOFT. WILL MENTION CHANCE OF SEVERE IN ALL ZONES MAINLY
IN AFTERNOON HOURS TO COINCIDE WITH MAX WARM AIR ADVECTION...LOW
LEVEL CONVERGENCE...UPPER LEVEL DIFLUENCE AND SURFACE BOUNDARY.
WILL ALSO ISSUR FLOOD WATCH FOR ENTIRE CWA AS FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE
VALUES HAVE LOWERED TO 0.7 INCH/HOUR IN SOUTHWEST MS AND 1.7 IN
REMAINDER OF CWA. EXPECT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM IN A
SQUALL LINE AND TRAIN NORTHEAST UP THE LINE. WITH RAINFALL RATES OF
1.5 TO 3 INCHES IN LESS THAN AN HOUR.
REMAINDER OF FORECAST SHOULD WILL BE A BREEZE THRU THURSDAY WITH
WINDS DIEING OFF THURSDAY MORNING. NEXT FRONTAL SYSTEM PROGGED BY
MODELS AND NCEP IS FOR SUNDAY/MONDAY. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS
ARE:
MCB 69/50/64/42 9200 BTR 68/52/65/43 +200
MSY 76/58/67/51 9300 GPT 73/55/68/49 9500
.NEW...SMALL CRAFT ADVZY...COASTAL WATERS OUT TO 60 NM FROM
PASCAGOULA MS TO ATCHAFALAYA BAY INCLUDING LAKES
PONTCHARTRAIN AND MAUREPAS
LA...FLOOD WATCH...LA034>040...046>050...056>070
MS...FLOOD WATCH...MS068>070..071...077000080>081LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-051800- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 600 AM CST TUE NOV 5 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI. .TODAY... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM THIS MORNING... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE WITH A FEW TORNADOES POSSIBLE OVER SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI THIS MORNING. ...A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY... RAINFALL RATES FROM THE NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO REACH ONE TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE SATURATED SOIL IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI WILL NOT HOLD ANY MORE RAINFALL. MOST RAIN THAT FALLS WILL QUICKLY RUNOFF INTO LOW LYING AREAS AND RIVERS RESULTING IN FLOODING. FLOODING... RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS MAY BE REQUIRED FOR RIVERS IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO THE EXPECTED ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL FROM THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTERS...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...MAY BE REQUIRED THIS MORNING. STAY ABREAST OF THE LATEST FORECASTS CONCERNING POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. .WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... HIGH PRESSURE WILL REBUILD OVER THE AREA TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY BRINGING DRIER AND COOLER WEATHER. A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE AREA LATE SUNDAY WITH CLEARING CONDITIONS ON MONDAY.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado destroyed one mobile home and heavily damaged another. Four other mobile homes received minor damage. Power lines were also knocked down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Louisiana in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Louisiana, 2002Warnings in Louisiana, November 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: 5321570.