1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Aug 13, 1:30 PM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 230 PM EDT TUE AUG 13 2002 CURRENTLY...CONVECTION FIRED INITIALLY OVER INLAND SE GEORGIA ZONES BUT IS NOW BEGINNING TO POP UP OVER EASTERN ZONES IN FLORIDA AND GEORGIA. EXPECT THIS TREND TO CONTINUE WITH SHOWER ACTIVITY FILLING IN ACROSS MOST AREAS WITH WEAK DISTURBANCE AT SFC AND ALOFT CENTERED OVER THE BIG BEND AREA. FORECAST...WEAK TROUGHING AT UPPER LEVELS WILL GIVE WAY TO RIDGING OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS WITH A GRADUAL DRYING AND WARMING TREND EXPECTED. FLOW WILL TRANSITION FROM SOUTHWEST TODAY TO SOUTH WEDNESDAY AND MORE SOUTHEASTERLY BY THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. H5 RIDGE PROGGED TO CENTER ITSELF DIRECTLY OVER THE AREA BY THE WEEKEND WITH SURFACE RIDGE AXIS STRETCHING E-W ACROSS NORTH FLORIDA. WILL GRADUALLY LOWER THE POPS THROUGH THE FRIDAY AND HOLD THEM AT CHANCE POPS THROUGH THE EXTENDED. HIGH TEMPS WILL WORK BACK INTO THE LOWER 90S MOST AREAS...ESPECIALLY FROM THURSDAY ON. MARINE...BUOY 41012 SHOWING LIGHT SOUTHERLY FLOW WITH 2 FT WAVES. LIGHT FLOW WILL GRADUALLY SHIFT TO SOUTHEAST BY FRIDAY AS RIDGING BUILDS IN ACROSS AREA. NO HEADLINES. PRELIM... AMG TT 069/089 071/091 071 25553 SSI TE 074/087 075/088 075 25352 JAX TE 073/090 073/091 074 25353 SGJ TE 074/087 074/088 074 25353 GNV TT 073/091 073/091 073 25453 OCF TT 073/091 073/091 073 25453= .JAX... .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. CAMP/TRABERT
FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-132230- NORTHEAST FLORIDA/SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 1145 AM EDT TUE AUG 13 2002 ...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP... NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE REGION TODAY. GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. STORMS WILL MOVE NORTH AT AROUND 15 MPH. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF OVER 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE... ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. SINCE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAX. CARROLL
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Small tree down on power lines. Lightning strike set fire to lines with 4,600 customers without power.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, August 2002
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: 5311792.