Name: Damaging Wind in Texas, August 26, 2002
Start: 2002-08-26T17:40
End: 2002-08-26T17:40
Location: Texas

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $5,000
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 happened

The episode as NWS LCH wrote it up.

Several trees and power lines were blown down near the Jasper county line.

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 Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 26, 1:18 PM CST, 4 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 1:18 PM CST, 4 hours 22 minutes before

SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
218 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002

AT MID AND UPPER LEVELS...A SERIES OF SHORTWAVE TROUGHS WILL CONTINUE
TO ROTATE AROUND A LOW PRESSURE CENTER IN THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN
AREAS THROUGH WEDNESDAY...MAINLY EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA. LOW COULD
WEAKEN AND SLIP DOWN INTO ALABAMA THURSDAY. A LOW LEVEL FLOW WITH A
NORTHERLY...RATHER THAN SOUTHERLY...COMPONENT MEANS DEPTH OF MOIST
LAYER WILL NOT INCREASE SIGNIFICANTLY...REMAIN AT OR BELOW 700 MB...
THROUGH THURSDAY. AFTERNOON HEATING WILL BE THE MAIN CONTRIBUTOR TO
INSTABILITY. THUS POPS WILL BE ON THE LOW SIDE...AND MOSTLY DURING
THE DAYTIME...THROUGH THURSDAY.

.PRELIM NUMBERS...
       TU    WE    TH   T W T
AEX 73/ 94 72/94 72/92 12-1-1
BPT 75/ 94 73/94 74/93 11-1-1
LCH 75/ 94 73/94 74/92 12-1-1
LFT 75/ 93 73/93 74/92 12-1-1

.LCH...OZONE ACTION DAY FOR HARDIN...JEFFERSON...AND ORANGE COUNTIES
IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOR TUESDAY...TXZ201...215 AND 216.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 26, 5:39 PM CST, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
639 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002

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

0618 PM    5 N BUNA                  TX   EST. 60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
08/26/02   JASPER                         AS REPORTED BY JASPER
                                          COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGER

0625 PM    BUNA                      TX   WIND DAMAGE
08/26/02   JASPER                         TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN
                                          ON HOUSES AS REPORTED BY
                                          JASPER COUNTY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGER.

THM

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:41 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Newton

When: August 26, 5:40 PM CST
Where: Newton County, 8 mi W of Deweyville
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 30.300, -93.883

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

Every storm in Texas in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Texas, August 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: 5317319.