Name: Damaging Wind in Louisiana, September 19, 2002
Start: 2002-09-19T15:18
End: 2002-09-19T15:18
Location: Louisiana

Where it happened

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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 Sep 19, 2:25 PM CST, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 19, 2:25 PM CST, 53 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
325 PM CDT THU SEP 19 2002

UPPER LOW AND COLD FRONT SWINGING INTO AREA THIS AFTERNOON. WEST
WINDS HAVE OCCURRED AT PARIS. THE UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT ACCORDING TO
MODELS /250 MB DIVERGENCE...RIGHT REAR JET QUADRANT...500 MB PVA/
SEEMS TO BE FAVORING THE NW PORTION THIS EVENING...BUT IF SURFACE
BOUNDARY PUSHES THROUGH THAT AREA SOONER RATHER THAN LATER...WILL IT
LOWER THE RAIN CHANCE THERE?  OR WILL THE UPPER ENERGY FORCE ANOTHER
ROUND OF STORMS? SEVERE THREAT IS MOSTLY TO BE STRAIGHT LINE
WINDS...AND SPC AT 19Z IS NOT OVERLY IMPRESSED. WILL INCLUDE SOME
POSSIBLY SEVERE IN ALL ZONES TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ALSO IN
MOST ZONES AS PRECIP WATER IS HIGH AND TRAINING IS TAKING PLACE
ALONG THE SW TO NE ORIENTED LINES OF CONVECTION.

AFTER COORDINATION WITH SPC...THE PREFRONTAL WIND SHIFT MOVING PAST
PARIS NOW MAY EFFECTIVELY BE THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE RAIN AREA. I/LL
HAVE LOWER POPS FOR FAR NW AS CONJECTURED EARLIER...AND LEAVE IT
UP TO EVENING SHIFT TO UPDATE AS NECESSARY.

IN SUM...LIKELIES FOR THE FAR NW...80 PERCENT POPS REST OF AREA
TONIGHT...THEN SLIGHT CHANCE TO CHANCE POPS FRIDAY MORNING. DRY
FORECAST THROUGH MONDAY OF NEXT WEEK...WITH COOL NIGHTS AND
PLEASANT DAYS. TROPICAL STORM ISIDORE WILL MUDDY UP THE FORECAST FOR
NEXT WEEK THOUGH. TPC HESITANT TO COMMIT TO A DIRECTION YET DUE TO
ALL OF THE SYNOPTIC FEATURES AFFECTING US PRESENTLY. BUT IF AVN
SOLUTION VERIFIES...THE SYSTEM WILL SKIRT YUCATAN AND STALL NEAR NW
YUCATAN COAST. THIS UNOFFICIALLY REPRESENTS A PROBLEM FOR OUR
FORECAST...THUS THE LAST DAYS OF THE EXTENDED ARE LOW CONFIDENCE. 17

PRELIMS...

SHV 69/87/60/87/61 8400
MLU 73/87/61/87/61 8500
TXK 66/85/59/85/57 8200
TYR 65/86/59/87/61 8200
LFK 69/87/60/88/62 8400

.SHV...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 19, 1:55 PM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
255 PM CDT THU SEP 19 2002

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

0200 PM    2 N TYLER                 TX   WIND DAMAGE
09/19/02   SMITH                          LARGE TREES DOWN OVER
                                          CR 485. REPORT FROM
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT

0205 PM    3 S TYLER                 TX   WIND DAMAGE
09/19/02   SMITH                          LARGE TREES DOWN OVER
                                          FM 2964. REPORT FROM LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

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The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 56 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:16 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Caddo

When: September 19, 3:18 PM CST
Where: Caddo County, 5 mi N of Hosston
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 32.950, -93.883

Several large trees down along Hwy 71.

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

More

Every storm in Louisiana in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Louisiana, September 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: 5318215.