Thunderstorm Wind, Marshall
- When
- May 13, 4:00 AM CST to 4:05 AM CST
- Where
- Marshall County, Holly Spgs
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 34.767, -89.450
Several trees and power lines were knocked down.
Damaging Wind in Mississippi, May 13, 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
- $10,000
- 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 May 13, 1:26 AM CST, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 1:26 AM CST, 2 hours 34 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 226 AM CDT MON MAY 13 2002 CURRENT 88D RADAR LOOP WAS SHOWING A LINE OF TSTMS FROM NRN WEST TN SWWD INTO SRN AR. IR SAT LOOP SHOWED TSTMS ACTIVITY FROM THE OH VALLEY SWWD INTO NE TX. SFC ANALYSIS PLACED THE CDFNT FROM SE MO SWD THRU ECNTRL AR INTO NE TX. TEMPS AHEAD OF THE FNT WERE IN THE 70S WITH LWR 50S BEHIND THE FNT ACROSS NW AR. EXPECT THE FNT TO PUSH QUICKLY THRU THE FA THIS MORNING AND EXIT ERN SXNS AROUND MID MORNING. WILL ADJUST ZNS AT RELEASE TIME BASED ON THE CURRENT WATCH/POSITION OF THE TSTMS. AS THE CDFNT RACES EWD AND THE UPR LVL SW TROF MOVES ACROSS THE TN VALLEY TODAY EXPECT CLEARING SKIES THIS AFTN WITH MCLEAR COND TONITE THRU TUES AS A DRY AIRMASS WILL BE IN THE PLACE. ADDITIONAL SW ENERGY WILL MOVE THRU THE MEAN ERN U.S. TROF WHICH WILL FINALLY MOVE OFF THE EAST COAST LATE TUE WITH ZONAL FLOW SHAPING UP BY MID WEEK. A SERIES OF UPR LVL SWS WILL MOVE THRU THE FLOW DURING THE REST OF THE WEEK WITH THE NEXT CHC FOR PRECIP COMING TWD THE WEEKEND. WILL NOT CHANGE THE EXTENDED AT THIS TIME EVENTHO THE 00Z AVN APPEARS TO STILL BE FASTER THAN THE ENSEMBLES. A BLEND OF FWC/MAV TEMPS WILL BE USED. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... MEM 067/052 075/054 078 500 MKL 067/047 073/049 076 700 JBR 067/050 074/052 076 300 TUP 071/050 075/052 078 700 .MEG...NONE.
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 75 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:58 UTC.
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 Virginia, May 13, 2002
- Rip Current in Florida, May 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 13, 2002
- Flooding in Alaska, May 13 to 21, 2002
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Maryland, May 13, 2002
- Flood in Pennsylvania, May 13 to 14, 2002
- Wildfire in California, May 13, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 13, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Maryland, May 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, May 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 13, 2002
- Wildfire in California, May 13, 2002
More
Every storm in Mississippi in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, May 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: 5298598.