1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 5, 9:02 AM EST, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI 1002 AM EDT MON AUG 5 2002 BLOCKING PATTERN OVER CENTRAL U.S. WILL KEEP SYNOPTIC PATTERN GENERALLY THE SAME THROUGH TOMMORROW. SOME DIGGING OF EAST COAST UPPER TROUGH WILL SUPPRESS SURFACE RIDGE SLOWLY TO THE SOUTH OF THE AREA DURING NEXT 48 HOURS WITH A CORRESPONDING SHIFT TO A MORE NORTHWESTERLY STEERING ALOFT. CURRENT WEAK STEERING FROM THE SOUTHEAST ACROSS AREA WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR A FEW MORNING SHOWERS ALONG THE COAST WHICH WILL SHIFT TO INTERIOR SECTIONS THIS AFTERNOON. 12Z SOUNDING FOR MIA NOT AVAIL THIS MORNING SO LOOKING AT EYW DATA WHICH SHOWED SIMILAR PARAMETERS TO YESTERDAY. PWAT AND EL WERE ESSENTIALLY THE SAME AS YESTERDAY AS WELL AS LIS AROUND -8 AND CAPES NEAR OR SLILGHTLY ABOVE 4000. ONE SIGNIFICANT CHANGE WAS LAPSE RATES 850MB-500MB WAS 27 WHICH WAS QUITE A BIT GREATER THAN YESTERDAY. CURRENT PUBLIC AND MARINE FORECASTS LOOK ON TRACK AND NOT EXPECTING ANY CHANGES FOR THE MORNING UPDATES. .MIA...NONE.
The Miami radar (KAMX), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:17 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A 28-year old man working on a roof at the Admiral's Cove subdivision was struck by lightning and mortally injured. He was holding roof flashing and a metal tray when the lightning struck.. He was transported to the hospital where he died 9 days later.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning, Palm Beach | 2002-08-14 | 28 | Male | Other | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5308025.