Thunderstorm Wind, Lee
- When
- March 8, 3:00 PM CST to 3:05 PM CST
- Where
- Lee County, Tupelo
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 34.267, -88.717
A couple of trees were knocked down.
Damaging Wind in Mississippi, March 8, 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
- $1,000
- 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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 8, 4:00 AM CST, 11 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 8, 4:00 AM CST, 11 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 400 AM CST FRI MAR 8 2002 ACTIVE WEATHER SITUATION SETTING UP. HIGH OVER THE CAROLINAS AND A LOW OVER SE CO COMBINING TO INCREASE WINDS FROM 15 TO 25 MPH TODAY WITH HIGHS GUSTS. STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT AND INCREASE MOISTURE AT ALL LEVELS. A SQUALL LINE WL LIKELY HIT THE MIDSOUTH AFTER MIDNIGHT INTO SAT MORN. SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE GOING TO BE SEVERE. MAINLY WINDS AND MAYBE A TORNADO. A COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP THROUGH STARTING EARLY SAT MORNING AND EXITING SE CWA BY MID- AFTERNOON. TOMORROW NIGHT WILL BE MUCH COLDER. .MEG...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
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, March 8 to 9, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, March 8 to 9, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, March 8, 2002
- Ice Storm in Iowa, March 8 to 9, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, March 8 to 9, 2002
- Winter Storm in Iowa, March 8 to 9, 2002
- High Wind in Kansas, March 8, 2002
- Damaging Winds and High Wind in Oklahoma, March 8 to 9, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, March 8 to 9, 2002
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, March 8 to 9, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, March 8, 2002
- High Wind in New Mexico, March 8, 2002
More
Every storm in Mississippi in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, 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: 5286630.