1 tornado, 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 Mar 30, 2:55 PM CST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
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. 14
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
15The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 131 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:14 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Damage was confined to a few felled pine trees, broken tree tops and tree limbs. This tornado remained in Nacogdoches County, TX.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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