Name: Damaging Wind in Texas, August 3, 2002
Start: 2002-08-03T17:15
End: 2002-08-03T17:15
Location: Texas

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $25,000
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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 3, 2:30 PM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:30 PM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
330 PM CDT SAT AUG 3 2002

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED THIS ACROSS ACORSS THE
EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA.  THISE STORMS WILL
CONTINUE TO DRIFT WEST SOUTHWEST...AND WILL DISSIPATE BEFORE
SUNSET.  WILL PLACE THE BEST POPS IN THE SOUTHEAST FOR TONIGHT...
WITH LOWER POPS AS YOU GO FARTHER NORTH AND WEST. WITH WILL
ALOS NEED TO RE-INTRODUCE LOW POPS ACROSS THE SOUTH FOR
SUNDAY...AS DAYTIME HEATING....AND LITTLE OR NO CAP...ALLOWS
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS.  THERE CONTINUES TO BE A GREAT DEAL
OF UNCERTAINTY CONCERNING THE DEVELOPMENT AND MOVEMENT OF
TROUGH/LOW IN THE GULF OF MEXICO. WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH TEXAS THROUGH MIDWEEK.

FCSTID = 58
DFW   76  98  76  97 /  10  10   0  20
ACT   73  98  72  97 /  10  20  10  20
PRX   73  96  73  97 /  20  10   0  20
DTO   74  98  74  97 /  10  10   0  20
TKI   75  97  74  97 /  10  10   0  20
DAL   76  98  76  98 /  10  10   0  20
TRL   76  98  74  98 /  20  10   0  20
CRS   75  98  73  97 /  20  20  10  20
TPL   72  98  71  97 /  20  20  10  20

.FWD...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 3, 2:38 PM CST, 2 hours 37 minutes before

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-041000-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
338 PM CDT SAT AUG 3 2002

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST
AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS THROUGH THIS EVENING...GENERALLY
EAST OF A LINE FROM BONHAM...TO WACO...TO TEMPLE. WHILE THESE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE...THEY WILL BE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED TO DIMINISH SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET.

NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED ACROSS NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT.

The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Bell

When: August 3, 5:15 PM CST
Where: Bell County, Temple
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Property damage: $25,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 31.100, -97.350

High winds blew a tree down on a 1929 Mercedes.

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: 5311583.