1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 4, 2:20 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 320 PM CDT SUN AUG 4 2002 PRIMARY FEATURE OF INTEREST THIS FORECAST IS THE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE SPINNING IN THE NRN GULF. MODELS ARE FAIRLY CONSISTENT IN BRINGING THIS LOW NWWD INTO LA TOMORROW. STILL NOT SURE HOW MUCH OF THE PRECIP WILL REACH OUR CWA...AS CONVECTION WILL LIKELY BE CONCENTRATED ON THE ERN HALF OF THE SYSTEM. WE WILL CARRY SOME LOW CHANCE POPS IN THE SE TOMORROW...TAPERING TO 0 IN THE NW. AS MORE OF THE MOISTURE OVERSPREADS THE AREA ON TUESDAY...BELIEVE WE WILL SEE BETTER RAIN CHANCES THEN. AVN CONTINUES TO SHOW DRIER AIR MAKING A BACKDOOR ENTRANCE INTO THE AREA MIDWEEK...SO WE HAVE DRIED OUT THE EXTENDED FROM THURSDAY ON. INCREASED CLOUD COVER IN THE FIRST PART OF THE WEEK SHOULD GIVE US A BREAK FROM THE HOT TEMPS OF LATE...BUT WE SHOULD STILL REMAIN MOSTLY IN THE 90S. WENT NEAR OR A LITTLE ABOVE MAV GUIDANCE FOR TOMORROW... THINKING THAT PERHAPS MAV IS GIVING A BIT TOO MUCH CLOUD COVER FOR TOMORROW. FCSTID = 5 SHV 75 95 73 94 / 10 20 20 40 MLU 73 93 73 92 / 10 20 20 40 TXK 75 97 73 94 / 0 0 0 40 TYR 74 96 73 94 / 10 0 0 40 LFK 72 95 72 92 / 10 20 20 40 .SHV...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a home causing a fire that did considerable damage to the residence.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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