1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 20, 1:18 PM EST, 3 hours 42 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 218 PM EDT SAT JUL 20 2002 CURRENTLY...SURFACE TROUGH FROM THE CAROLINAS TO ACROSS SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND NORTHEAST FLORIDA. SHORT WAVE TROUGH DROPPING SOUTHEAST ACROSS CENTRAL GA. THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY ERUPTING ALONG I-10 IN NORTH FLORIDA. MODELS/ZFP...UNMODIFIED MORNING SOUNDINGS ALREADY SHOWED CAPE OF 4100+J AND LIFTED INDEX -8 WITH CAP OF 3 DEGREES. AFTER CAP IS BROKEN SHOULD SEE A ROUND OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. MAIN CONCERNS WILL BE THE FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING (FROM HIGH CAPE AND PW) AND POSSIBLE PULSE SEVERE STORMS. SURFACE TROUGH CONTINUES OVER THE REGION WITH SHORT WAVE DROPPING SOUTHEAST THRU SUNDAY...AND CLOSING OFF ACROSS GEORGIA AND ALABAMA. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT THAT THERE WILL BE MORE THAN SUFFICIENT MOISTURE AND LIFT TO SEE NUMEROUS MAINLY AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS AT LEAST FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. WITH MEAN 1000-500 MB WIND FLOW GENERALLY WEST OR SOUTHWEST...WILL SEE ACTIVITY FIRST FORM NEAR GULF COAST AND SPREAD EAST...WITH MOST OF THE ACTIVITY NEAR EAST COAST IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVE. HEAT INDICES ARE RUNNING 105 TO 110 DEGREES TODAY AND WILL SEE AT LEAST 105 SUNDAY. WILL HEADLINE THIS. PRELIM AMG TT 075/093 072/094 074 08464 SSI TT 078/090 077/092 076 08464 JAX TT 076/093 073/093 075 08464 SGJ TT 077/090 075/093 077 08464 GNV TT 074/093 073/093 074 08363 OCF TT 074/092 074/093 074 08353= .JAX... .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. PP
FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-202200- NORTHEAST FLORIDA/SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 1215 PM EDT SAT JUL 20 2002 ...HEAT INDICES BETWEEN 103 AND 108 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON... ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE... TEMPERATURES WILL CLIMB TO BETWEEN 94 TO 98 DEGREES IN MOST INLAND LOCATIONS...RESULTING IN HEAT INDICES BETWEEN 103 AND 108 DEGREES DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. IF ENGAGED IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES...TAKE FREQUENT BREAKS IN SHADED AREAS AND DRINK PLENTY OF NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE FROM MID-AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. STRONGEST STORMS WILL PRODUCE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MPH. ALL STORMS WILL CONTAIN LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES. SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO SELF-ACTIVATE AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAX. CARROLL
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE, FL
545 PM EDT SAT JUL 20 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0325 PM JACKSONVILLE FL WIND DAMAGE
07/20/02 DUVAL TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN
NEAR ATLANTIC AND SOUTHSIDE
0255 PM LAKE CITY FL WIND DAMAGE
07/20/02 COLUMBIA TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN
0400 PM 1NE KEYSTONE HEIGHTS FL WIND DAMAGE
07/20/02 CLAY BARN DESTROYED. ROOF BLOWN
OFF 2 SHEDS
PPThe Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:59 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Bass boat would not start as thunderstorm approached and was taken under tow by a pontoon boat. Bass boat filled with water and sank. Victim could not be located due to low visibility, wind and waves. Victim was not wearing a life jacket.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind, Putnam | 2002-07-20 | 51 | Male | Boat | 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: 5306794.