1 hail, 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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 19, 8:30 AM EST, 3 hours 47 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 930 AM EDT MON AUG 19 2002 LATEST LAPS STREAMLINE ANALYSIS PLACES THE SFC RIDGE AXIS JUST NORTH OF THE LAKE EARLY THIS MORNING WITH SFC OBS INDICATING A LIGHT SELY FLOW ACROSS MY SRN ZONES...NEAR CALM CENTRAL...AND LIGHT S-SWLY TO THE NORTH. POSITION OF RIDGE AXIS WILL FAVOR AN EARLY ONSET TO THE WEST COAST SEA BREEZE TODAY...MOVING INLAND FASTER TO THE NORTH AND HANGING CLOSER TO THE COAST AS ONE MOVES SOUTH. 12Z RAOB DATA INDICATES FAIRLY UNIFORM PWS (2) THROUGHOUT...SO SHOULD SEE ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS/STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AS MESO- SCALE BOUNDARY INTERACTIONS TAKE PLACE. WEAK AND CHAOTIC STEERING FLOW CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ZONES WILL FAVOR STORMS PROPAGATING ALONG SEA/LAKE/OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES...WHILE FURTHER NORTH A SLIGHTLY BETTER SW-WLY STEERING WILL PUSH CONVECTION TOWARD INLAND LOCATIONS. IN ADDITION SLOW MOVING CELLS WILL FAVOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. ONGOING ZONES SEEM TO HAVE A GOOD HANDLE ON THIS SO NO UPDATES ARE PLANNED. MARINE...SFC RIDGE POSITION WILL SUPPORT LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS AND SLIGHT SEAS OVER THE COASTAL WATERS THIS AFTERNOON. OTHER THAN MINOR WIND WORDING ADJUSTMENTS TO FIT THE AFTERNOON...NO CHANGES EXPECTED. .TBW...NONE. MCMICHAEL
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 34 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:18 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous reports of dime to golfball size hail due to a slow moving thunderstorm.
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: 5310519.