Name: Damaging Wind in Texas, September 19, 2002
Start: 2002-09-19T12:15
End: 2002-09-19T12:15
Location: Texas

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $2,000
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 Sep 19, 11:39 AM CST, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 19, 11:39 AM CST, 36 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1239 PM CDT THU SEP 19 2002

UPDATING ZONES TO LOWER POPS WEST AND CENTRAL AND PARTS OF THE EAST.

FCSTID = 59
DFW   82  62  85  59 /  20   0   0   0
ACT   83  63  86  59 /  40   0   0   0
PRX   81  59  82  56 /  80  30   0   0
DTO   80  57  84  57 /  20   0   0   0
TKI   81  59  83  57 /  20   0   0   0
DAL   82  62  85  59 /  20   0   0   0
TRL   82  61  83  58 /  40   0   0   0
CRS   83  64  87  59 /  80  30   0   0
TPL   83  63  86  59 /  40   0   0   0

.FWD...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 19, 9:53 AM CST, 2 hours 22 minutes before

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-192100-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1053 AM CDT THU SEP 19 2002

THE SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NOW EXISTS THROUGH EARLY
EVENING...GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST OF A PARIS...CANTON...CORSICANA
...CAMERON LINE. THIS INCLUDES THESE CITIES...AS WELL AS SULPHUR
SPRINGS...EMORY...CANTON...ATHENS...AND PALESTINE. THE MAIN THREATS
ARE FROM DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.  THE THREAT OF TORNADOES IS
MINIMAL.

THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED FOR THE DALLAS FORT WORTH
METROPLEX...AS WELL AS FOR THE WACO AND TEMPLE AREAS.  A FEW
LINGERING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD AFFECT THESE AREAS...BUT
THEY SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS.

EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTER GROUPS WITHIN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA
MAY BE ACTIVATED FROM THE LATE MORNING...INTO THE EARLY EVENING
HOURS.

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 143 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:16 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Henderson

When: September 19, 12:15 PM CST
Where: Henderson County, Athens
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Property damage: $2,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 32.200, -95.850

Trees and power lines were blown down west of Athens.

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, September 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: 5320717.