Name: Damaging Wind in Mississippi, May 17, 2002
Start: 2002-05-17T14:00
End: 2002-05-17T14:00
Location: Mississippi

Where it happened

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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 May 17, 9:30 AM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 9:30 AM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA
1030 AM CDT FRI MAY 17 2002

LIX SOUNDING AT 12Z THIS MORNING INDICATED NO CAP OR NO WARM LAYERS
ALOFT WITH A CAPE VALUE AROUND 4200 J/KG. IN ADDITION...PRECIPITABLE
WATER VALUE WAS 1.67 INCHES. AN EARLY LOOK AT THE MESOETA SHOWS THE
VORT MAX ASSOCIATED WITH THE ASSOCIATED MCS OVER SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST ALONG THE LOUISIANA COAST. WITH THESE FACTORS
IN PLACE...WE WILL INCREASE RAIN CHANCES FOR THIS AFTERNOON.
OTHERWISE...MORNING PACKAGE IS OK FOR NOW.

MCB 86/62/74/49 6730    BTR 87/65/75/51 7740
MSY 85/70/77/61 5750    GPT 83/69/80/51 5750

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

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 17, 10:30 AM CST, 3 hours 30 minutes before

LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-181200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1130 AM CDT FRI MAY 17 2002

.SYNOPSIS...A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ARKANSAS...EXTREME
NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS WILL CONTINUE ALONG A
SOUTHWARD MOVING COLD FRONT THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. AN ADDITIONAL
COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...ASSOCIATED
WITH AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE...WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD
EASTWARD THIS AFTERNOON AS THE TROUGH TRACKS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS.

.THUNDERSTORMS...
AN UNSTABLE TROPICAL AIRMASS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AS
SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI REMAIN WEDGED BETWEEN
THE COLD FRONT APPROACHING THE STATE AND THE LARGE COMPLEX OF
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT
IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AS THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE
APPROACHES SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND DAYTIME TEMPERATURES WARM INTO
THE MID 80S. HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS
ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT.

.ACTIONS...NONE.

FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/LIX
(ALL LOWER CASE).

Local storm report, May 17, 12:57 PM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS, LA
157 PM CDT FRI MAY 17 2002

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

0125 PM    MORGANZA                  LA   WIND DAMAGE
05/17/02   POINTE COUPEE                  THUNDERSTORM WIND GUST
                                          DOWNED SEVERAL TREE ALONG
                                          HIGHWAY 3050 REPORTED BY
                                          POLICE DEPARTMENT

Local storm report, May 17, 1:31 PM CST, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS, LA
231 PM CDT FRI MAY 17 2002

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

0150 PM    PARISHWIDE                LA   WIND DAMAGE
05/17/02   WEST FELICIANA                 THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
                                          DOWNED SEVERAL TREES ACROSS
                                          WEST FELICIANA PARISH
                                          REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
                                          DEPARTMENT

The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Pike

When: May 17, 2:00 PM CST
Where: Pike County, Mc Comb
Property damage: $2,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 31.250, -90.467

Several trees were blown down.

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: 5299415.