Thunderstorm Wind, Columbia
- When
- April 17, 9:00 PM EST
- Where
- Columbia County, 5 mi SW of Lake City
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 30.133, -82.700
4 150 foot tall live oaks felled.
Damaging Wind in Florida, April 17, 2002
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $1,000
- 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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 17, 7:50 PM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 7:50 PM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 850 PM EDT WED APR 17 2002 PUBLIC...AFTN/EVENING TSTM ACTIVITY ENHANCED BY PVA AND SEABREEZE INTERACTION...WITH THE MAIN FOCUS OVER W AREAS. ACTIVITY HAS DIED DOWN CONSIDERABLY...BUT WITH SOME UPPER SUPPORT...A FEW TSTMS ARE STILL ONGOING OVER THE SUWANNEE VALLEY. WILL HOLD OFF ON ZFP UPDATE UNTIL CONVECTION DIMINISHES. SOME AREAS ALONG THE ALTAMAHA AND SUWANNEE RIVERS RECEIVED MUCH-NEEDED RAIN. WILL REWORD CLOUD WORDING SLIGHTLY...OTHERWISE LITTLE CHANGE. MARINE...LITTLE CHANGE. .JAX... .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. CARROLL/ZAPPE/BOONE
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, April 17 to 18, 2002
- Hail and Heavy Rain in Tennessee, April 17, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, April 17 to 18, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, April 17 to 18, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, April 17, 2002
- High Wind in Iowa, April 17 to 18, 2002
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, April 17, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, April 17 to 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 17, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 17, 2002
- Hail and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, April 17, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Massachusetts, April 17, 2002
More
Every storm in Florida in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, April 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: 5290447.