Name: Damaging Wind in Texas, August 21, 2002
Start: 2002-08-21T17:56
End: 2002-08-21T17:56
Location: Texas

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $15,000
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 Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 21, 2:07 PM CST, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 2:07 PM CST, 3 hours 49 minutes before

SOUTH PLAINS AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
307 PM CDT WED AUG 21 2002

PERSISTENT MID LEVEL CLOUD COVER CONTINUES A SLOW EASTWARD DRIFT
ACROSS THE CWA TODAY. A FEW SPRINKLES ARE ALL THAT HAVE OCCURRED
WITH THIS MID LEVEL MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY THUS FAR. AREAS TO THE
EAST ARE UNSTABLE WITH THE CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURE JUST BEING
REACHED. AT LAST LOOK A FEW CU WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP FROM GAIL
NORTHWARD TO CHILDRESS. OTHER AREA OF POTENTIAL RAIN IS LOCATED NEAR
WEAK SURFACE CONVERGENCE GENERATED FROM SLIGHTLY COOLER AIR PUSHING
EASTWARD AND BACKING WINDS ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH PLAINS/BIG
COUNTRY. IF THIS AREA OF CONVERGENCE CAN PERSIST WE MAY SEE
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP FROM TAHOKA TO SILVERTON. ONE LAST
AREA WHERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP WILL BE ON THE HIGHER TERRAIN
OF NEW MEXICO AND SURFACE TROUGH THAT IS LOCATED NEAR THE TX/NM
BORDER. WITH ALL THIS SAID IT LEADS TO THE POTENTIAL FOR SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE ENTIRE CWA. SURFACE TROUGH SHOULD PERSIST INTO
THURSDAY WITH ONLY ISOLATED CHANCES ALONG IT. UPPER LEVEL HIGH
PRESSURE WILL SLIDE BACK TO THE SOUTHWEST AND STRENGTHEN THROUGH THE
WEEKEND. THIS SHOULD KEEP RAIN CHANCES TO THE TOO LOW TO MENTION
CATEGORY. WEAK SURFACE FRONTS WILL MOVE TOWARDS THE AREA AS
DISTURBANCES MOVE NORTH AND EAST OF WEST TEXAS IN THE EXTENDED BUT
BELIEVE HIGH PRESSURE WILL KEEP ANY CONVECTION TO A MINIMUM AND WILL
NOT MENTION ANY CHANCES AT THIS TIME.

FRIONA      67  94  66  95   /  30  20  20   5
TULIA       68  95  69  96   /  40  10  10   5
LUBBOCK     71  96  71  97   /  40  10  10   5
BROWNFIELD  69  96  71  97   /  40  10  10   5
CHILDRESS   72  98  73 100   /  40   5   5   5
ASPERMONT   75  99  76 100   /  40   5   5   5

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Dickens

When: August 21, 5:56 PM CST
Where: Dickens County, Spur
Property damage: $15,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 33.483, -100.850

Thunderstorm winds blew power lines down and the roof off of a house in Spur.

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: 5314213.