Name: Damaging Wind in Mississippi, August 19, 2002
Start: 2002-08-19T17:45
End: 2002-08-19T17:45
Location: Mississippi

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $2,000
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 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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 19, 1:11 PM CST, 4 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 1:11 PM CST, 4 hours 34 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA
211 PM CDT MON AUG 19 2002

AN UPPER AIR ANALYSIS AT 200MB REVEALED ANTICYCLONIC CIRCULATIONS
OVER OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST GULF AND SOUTH OF BIG BEND TEXAS. A VORT
MAX WAS REVEALED OVER CENTRAL TENNESSEE/NORTHERN ALABAMA. IN
ADDITION...A WEAK TROUGH...WEAK SHEAR OR A COL WAS NOTED OVER
WESTERN LOUISIANA. A SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT OF 1MB FROM THE
FORECAST AREA TO ORLANDO REMAIN IN PLACE. LIX SOUNDING SHOWED A WEAK
WIND PROFILE THROUGHOUT THE COLUMN AND H20 VALUE AROUND 1.9 INCHES.

SYNOPTIC PATTERN CHANGE VERY LITTLE THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD AS
THE NORTHERN JET STREAM REMAINS NORTH. ANTICYCLONIC CIRCULATION OVER
EXTREME NORTHEAST GULF WEAKENS AND MOVES ACROSS THE AREA AS THE
ANTICYCLONIC CIRCULATION SOUTH OF TEXAS BIG BEND STRENGTHEN AND
MOVES NORTHEAST OVER TEXAS TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. THIS WILL ALLOW
THE VORT MAX OVER CENTRAL TENNESSEE/NORTHERN ALABAMA TO MOVE OVER
THE FORECAST AREA WEDNESDAY. AGREE WITH AVN...WILL INCREASE POPS TO
50 PERCENT FOR WEDNESDAY. A WEAK LOW DEVELOPS UNDERNEATH THE BROAD
HIGH WEDNESDAY AND SLOWLY DRIFTS NORTHWEST THURSDAY THROUGH
SATURDAY. THUS KEEPING THE CHANCE OF RAIN NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE
CLIMO. MEAN RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES ABOVE 70 PERCENT ACROSS THE
FORECAST AREA WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

IN THE MEANTIME...ATMOSPHERE WILL REMAIN CONDUCIVE TO FUNNEL CLOUDS
OVER MARSHES AND COASTAL WATERS. CAPE VALUES WILL REMAIN AROUND 4000
J/KG AND WINDS LESS THAN 10 KNOTS FROM THE SURFACE TO 300MB WILL
PERSIST THROUGH TODAY. IN ADDITION...ISOLATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO
2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF THE LIGHT STEERING WINDS ALOFT.

HERE ARE SOME NUMBERS TO PONDER...

MCB 91/72/92/73 4142
BTR 91/73/92/74 4142
MSY 91/75/92/75 4142
GPT 91/74/92/74 4142

.NEW...NONE.
LA...NONE
MS...NONE

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The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Pearl River

When: August 19, 5:45 PM CST
Where: Pearl River County, Mc Neil
Property damage: $2,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 30.667, -89.633

Several trees were blown down along Interstate 59 near the Millard exit.

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

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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: 5316340.