1 lightning, 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 Jul 1, 1:39 PM EST, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 239 PM EDT MON JUL 1 2002 ANOTHER WET AFTERNOON THROUGHOUT THE FA BUT SOME PREMISE FOR A LESSONING OF POPS TUESDAY THROUGH THE BALANCE OF THE WEEK. CONSIDERABLE CONVECTION EXPECTED THIS AFTN WHICH SHOULD BE ON THE WANE MOST AREAS AROUND OR SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET DUE TO THE EARLY INITIATION OF CONVECTION TDY. NEAR TERM...ACCEPTING THE AVN MODEL SOLUTION WITH MUCH OF THE NRN 2/3S OF FA COMING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF NVA ON THE BACK OR N SIDE OF THE SHEARED 5H TROF AXIS ALIGNED ACROSS THE PNSULA. WILL STILL HOLD ONTO HIGHER POPS OVER THE SE HLF OF FA INTO TUE...NEARER THE TROUGH AXIS. THEREAFTER BELIEVE POPS WILL BE LESS THROUGHOUT THE FA AS WEAK W-NWLY BNDRY LVL FLOW SETS UP OVER THE FA AS THE SFC RDG SAGS TO THE S PNSULA. SUCH FLOW STILL PROVIDES A CHANCE FOR POPS BUT WITH LESSER AMOUNTS AND OVERALL AREAL COVERAGE. WEAK 5-10KT W-NWLY BNDRY FLOW WILL NOT BE STRONG ENOUGH TO HOLD OFF ELY LAND CONVECTION OUTFLOW AND ELY LAND BREEZE OVERNIGHT SO DO NOT ANTICIPATE NOCTURNAL OR EARLY MRNG CONVECTION TO AFFECT COASTAL FA THROUGH WED...ALTHOUGH SOME MAY HEAR THUNDER JUST 10 MILES OR SO OFFSHORE. OTHER FACTOR FOR LIMITED NOCTURNAL CONVECTION NEAR SHORE N OF SRQ WOULD ONLY 82-83 GULF WATER TEMPS. TYPICALLY NEED 84+ DEG TO SUPPORT GOOD NOCTURNAL CELL DVLPMT. BUT CAN NOT RULE OUT NEAR SHORE NOCTURNAL FOR SRN FA WITH SLIGHTLY WARMER H20 TEMPS AND NEARER TROUGH AXIS. .EXTENDED...BUT WLY FLO MAY INCREASE TO 10 KTS BY THURSDAY SO BETTER PREMISE FOR MORNING INTO AFTN CONVECTION THURS-FRI AND WITH AN AVN MODEL PREMISE FOR ANOTHER PVA IMPULSE TO DRIFT SWD DOWN THE STATE. THEREAFTER AS WK UPPER TROFFING OVER AREA ERODES AND UPPER RIDING REBUILDS OVER FA...AGREE WITH MRF FOR BNDRY FLOW TO REVERT TO E- SELY SATURDAY INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK TO SUPPORT A RETURN TO NEAR NORMAL AFTN/EVE SHWRS/TSTMS. BKV BB 068/089 068/091 070 10331 TPA BB 073/088 076/089 076 10341 GIF BB 072/089 073/091 073 10362 SRQ BB 072/087 074/088 075 10341 FMY TB 073/089 074/090 074 10361= TBW...NONE. DMR
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 23 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:44 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning caused a fire to a home on Lambright Street.
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, July 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: 5304644.