Texas, 2002Tornadoes in Texas, March 30, 2002
March 30, 2002 · NWS SHV · 3 events in 3 counties and zones
3 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- Heat and drought
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 6
- Property damage
- $6.2 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 30, 2:55 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 2:55 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
255 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002
WILL CONTINUE WITH SAME FORECAST TRENDS WITH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT
ACROSS NORTHERN AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF FORECAST AREA. MESOETA
CONTINUES THE HEAVY RAIN THREAT IN THIS AREA...WHICH HAS EXPERIENCED
AMOUNTS EXCEEDING 4 INCHES IN SOME LOCATIONS. EXPECT ANOTHER 1 TO 3
INCHES OF RAIN TONIGHT...MAINLY ACROSS NORTHERN PORTIONS OF WATCH
AREA....WITH PRECIP PROLONGED INTO EARLY SUNDAY MORNING WITH WRAP
AROUND FROM LOW. MODELS HAVE LOW OVER SHV AROUND 12Z SUNDAY...AND
WITH DRY SLOT MOVING IN FROM SOUTHWEST...SO EAST CENTRAL TEXAS
SHOULD BE IN CLEAR FIRST. BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON...MOST OF CWA SHOULD
BE RAIN FREE BEHIND THE DEPARTING LOW.
DRY AND MILD WEATHER FORECAST FOR MONDAY WITH HIGH TEMPS IN THE
UPPER 60S AND LOWER 70S.
WILL ALLOW EXTENDED WORDING TO REMAIN DRY...BUT TOWARD THE END OF
WEEK A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS WITH FRONTAL
PASSAGE WEDNESDAY. WARM FIRST HALF OF WEEK WITH SLIGHTLY BELOW
NORMALS END OF WEEK.
SHV 58/73/50/72 8400
MLU 56/71/48/70 8300
TXK 50/65/46/71 +400
TYR 53/69/49/73 +300
LFK 57/75/50/74 8200
.SHV...FFA THROUGH TONIGHT...
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-OKZ077-TXZ096-097-
108>112-124>126-136>138-149>151.
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In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 30, 4:40 PM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
440 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0750 AM 2 W ATLANTA TX WIND DAMAGE
03/30/02 CASS DOWNBURST WINDS OF 80-100 MPH
ON WEST AND SOUTH SIDE OF
ATLANTA INITIAL DAMAGE PATH
MEASURED 3/4 MILE IN
DIAMETER...WITH ENDING PATH
MEASURING 3.3 MILES WIDE TOTAL
DAMAGE PATH MEASURED WAS 5.1 MILES
LONG REPORT FROM NWS SURVEY
0755 AM ATLANTA TX WIND DAMAGE
03/30/02 CASS DOWNBURST WINDS PARTIALLY
STRIPPED A MCDONALDS SIGN
AWNING COLLAPSED ON A CAR
AT A TEXACO STATION PINE
TREE MEASURING 1/2 - 1 FOOT
IN DIAMETER UPROOTED A GAS
MAIN IN ATLANTA TREES ON
HOUSES ALONG HWY 251 JUST
SOUTH OF ATLANTA REPORT
FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT
0815 AM DODDRIDGE AR WIND DAMAGE
03/30/02 MILLER ROOF AND INSOLATION BLOWN
OFF A HOUSE IN THE BRIGHT
STAR COMMUNITY PORCH WAS
BLOWN DOWN NUMEROUS TREES
DOWN OVER ROADS REPORT
FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT
0855 AM SHREVEPORT LA NON TSTM WIND GUST
03/30/02 CADDO ASSOCIATED WITH COLD
FRONTAL PASSAGE AWNINGS
WERE BLOWN OFF IN PARKING
LOT AT HARRAHS CASINO IN
DOWNTOWN SHREVEPORT ROOF
DAMAGE SUSTAINED AT PARKING
GARAGE AT THE CASINO 1 CAR
DAMAGED IN GARAGE REPORT
FROM OEP
0930 AM 1 S NASHVILLE AR FLOODING
03/30/02 HOWARD INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 27 AND
TRENTON BLVD WAS UNDERWATER
REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT
15Tornado, Angelina
- When
- March 30, 7:05 PM CST to 7:49 PM CST
- Where
- Angelina County, 5 mi SSE of Diboll
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 24.3 mi
- Path width
- 440 yd
- Injuries
- 6 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $5.0 million
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 31.117, -94.767
Numerous trees and power lines broken, snapped, and pulled out of the ground along the entire track. Several barns were severely damaged and numerous homes were with missing roofs while others suffered severe roof and structural damage. South of the Ora Community one house was totally blown off its foundation and destroyed. This tornado moved into Angelina County, TX from Polk County, TX and continued into Nacogdoches County, TX and San Augustine County, TX.
Tornado, Nacogdoches
- When
- March 30, 7:49 PM CST to 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Nacogdoches County, 5 mi S of Etoile
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 7.5 mi
- Path width
- 440 yd
- Property damage
- $1.2 million
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 31.317, -94.433
Numerous trees and power lines broken, snapped and pulled out of the ground along the track. Numerous homes and business were severely damaged or destroyed. This tornado moved into Nacogdoches County, TX from Polk County, TX and Angelina County, TX then continued northeast into San Augustine County, TX.
Tornado, San Augustine
- When
- March 30, 8:00 PM CST to 8:31 PM CST
- Where
- San Augustine County, 16 mi SW of San Augustine
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 15.2 mi
- Path width
- 220 yd
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 31.350, -94.317
Numerous trees snapped and felled along the extreme western portion of the track. A few power lines were also toppled northeast of Townsend. This tornado moved into San Augustine County, TX from Nacogdoches County, TX, Angelina County, TX and Polk County, TX.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, March 30, 2002$1.1 million · F3 · 37 events
- Hail in Alabama, March 30, 2002$579,000 · 2.75 in hail · 5 events
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, March 30 to 31, 2002$161,000 · 1.75 in hail · 18 events
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, March 30, 2002$25,000 · F1 · 12 events
- Hail in Alabama, March 30, 2002$75,000 · 2 in hail · 2 events
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, March 30, 2002$40,000 · 60 kt wind · 1 event
- Tornadoes in Texas, March 30, 2002F1 · 2 events
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, March 30 to 31, 2002$11,000 · 1.75 in hail · 11 events
- Flash Flood and Hail in Louisiana, March 30 to 31, 2002$9,000 · 1.75 in hail · 7 events
- High Surf in Hawaii, March 30 to 31, 20027 events
- Flooding in Indiana, March 30 to 31, 20026 events
- High Wind in Louisiana, March 30, 2002$12,000 · 50 kt wind · 1 event
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: 5281117, 5281118, 5281119.