1 rip current, 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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 1, 1:50 PM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 250 PM EDT MON JUL 1 2002 FORECAST CHALLENGE -- RAIN CHANCES. --SYNOPSIS-- WATER VAPOR IMAGES SHOW A RATHER CHAOTIC PATTERN ALOFT WITH MEAN TROUGHING OVER THE SERN COAST. SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT VERY LOOSE. VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW DEEP CONVECTION BEGINNING ALONG THE SEA BREEZE OVER OUR WRN ZONES. E COAST SEA BREEZE CONVECTION ALSO MAKING HEADWAY TOWARDS OUR ERN ZONES. --FORECAST-- TUESDAY...LOCAL THINKING HAS BEEN THAT THE MODELS ARE A BIT TOO AGGRESSIVE DRYING THINGS OUT. HOWEVER...AS SUPPRESSED AS THINGS ARE LOOKING THIS AFTERNOON...WE CANT DISCOUNT THIS POSSIBILITY ENTIRELY. SHORT RANGE ENSEMBLE POPS ARE LOW OVER MOST AREAS... AROUND 20%. DUE TO A LACK OF CONFIDENCE...WILL STICK WITH THESE NUMBERS...EXCEPT FOR 30% IN GA FOLLOWING ETA GUIDANCE. WEDNESDAY...MODELS PLACE WEAK SURFACE TROUGH OVER OUR NRN ZONES... WHICH COULD BE A FOCUS FOR CONVECTION. SHORT RANGE ENSEMBLE POPS ARE MUCH HIGHER...60-80% OVER MOST OF OUR ZONES. WILL START OUT WITH 40% FOR NOW...AND LATER SHIFTS CAN DECIDE TO RAMP THIS UP IF NECESSARY. FIRE WEATHER - NO HIGHLIGHTS. MARINE - NO HIGHLIGHTS EXPECTED. LOWERED WINDS SLIGHTLY IN EARLIER PERIODS AND RAISED THEM IN THE EXTENDED. EXTENDED (THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY) - UPPER WEAKNESS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER THE SERN USA THROUGH MOST OF THE EXTENDED WITH VARIABLE MEAN FLOW BELOW 700 MB. CAN NOT REALLY BE MORE SPECIFIC THAN A CLIMO FORECAST. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... TLH 070/095 070/094 2214 PFN 073/090 074/090 3214 DHN 071/091 072/090 2214 ABY 071/092 071/091 1334 VLD 068/094 069/092 2324 .TLH... .AL...NONE. .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. TJT
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A man drowned while attempting to escape a severe rip current. Reported by the Bay County EMA.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Bay | 2002-07-01 | 50 | Male | In Water | Direct |
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: 5319836.