Thunderstorm Wind, Harrison
- When
- July 24, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Harrison County, Gulfport
- Property damage
- $750
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 30.383, -89.083
Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree and knocked out power to about 2,500 homes.
Damaging Wind in Mississippi, July 24, 2002
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
- $750
- 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 Jul 24, 1:00 PM CST, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 1:00 PM CST, 3 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 200 PM CDT WED JUL 24 2002 MODELS SOMEWHAT SIMILAR WITH THE NGM HEAVIEST OF QPF VALUES. AVN/ETA MODELS SHOW SHORT WAVE MOVING SOUTH ALONG EASTERN SIDE OF RIDGE AND DROPPING INTO MISSISSPPI AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA THIS AFTERNOON. SEABREEZE HASNT SET UP THIS AFTERNOON. GOOD OUTFLOW BOUNDAY VISIBLE ON VISIBLE IMAGERY MOVING AT 20 TO 25 KT FROM SOUTHWEST LOUISISIANA TOWARDS LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN. ACTIVITY REMAINING BELOW SEVERE LIMITS BUT THERE REMAINS A CHANCE FOR A FEW MESOS...OOOPS GOT ONE NOW BUT TOO ELEVATED TO WORRY ABOUT. WILL KEP CHANCE OD TRWE IN FOR THIS EVENING AND INCREASE POPS TO LIKELY CATEGORY FOR THURSDAY. AS RIDGE RETROGRADES WEST...ADDITTIONAL SHORT WAVES ARE AWAITING IN THE WINGS TO DROP INTO THE 850 TROUGH ALONG THE GULF COAST. DONT SEE ANY CHANGE IN PATTERN TIL THE WEENEND WHEN RIDGE BUILDS IN FROM THE EAST AND CAPS OFF THE CONVECTION. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS FOLLOW...WILL SEE IF IFPS SPITS IT OUT CORRECTLY MCB 72 90 72 91 3634 BTR 73 91 73 91 4624 MSY 76 91 76 91 4634 GPT 75 90 75 90 4634 .NEW...NONE LA...NONE. MS...NONE.
The 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, July 24, 2002
- Hail in South Dakota, July 24, 2002
- Hail in South Dakota, July 24, 2002
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Georgia, July 24, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 24, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, July 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 24, 2002
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, July 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 24, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in South Dakota, July 24 to 25, 2002
More
Every storm in Mississippi in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, July 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: 5311240.