Lightning, Clay
- When
- July 25, 4:45 PM EST
- Where
- Clay County, Green Cove Spgs
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 29.983, -81.858 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
911 center struck by lightning and down for an hour.
Lightning Strike in Florida, July 25, 2002
1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 25, 1:30 PM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 1:30 PM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 230 PM EDT THU JUL 25 2002 12Z MODEL SUITE NOT AVAILABLE DUE TO NCEPS TEST. ONLY MM5 AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. AFTER SEEING THIS MODEL...PREVIOUS FORECAST STILL LOOKS ON TRACK. WITH UPPER TROUGH RETROGRADING AND UPPER RIDGE BUILDING INTO AREA EXPECT NEAR CLIMO POPS AND TEMPERATURES NEXT FEW DAYS. 12Z KJAX SOUNDING SHOWS TYPICAL WARMING OF AIRMASS AND DRYING ALOFT SEEN WITH THIS PATTERN. EXCEPTION WILL BE SE GA LATE FRIDAY AS WEAK PVA DRIFTS INTO AREA FROM THE NORTH INCREASING POPS TO ABOVE CLIMATOLOGY. OTHERWISE EAST COAST SEABREEZE FRONT WILL BE MAIN TRIGGER FOR PM STORMS. MAY NEED TO MENTION HEAT INDICES AS TEMPERATURES REACH THE MID 90S NEXT FEW DAYS. MARINE...WITH HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE AXIS REMAINING JUST SOUTH OF AREA...LIGHT SW FLOW TO CONTINUE. NO HEADLINES. PRELIM... AMG TB 072/092 073/093 073 04464 SSI TB 074/090 075/092 075 04464 JAX BB 073/093 074/094 074 04453 SGJ BB 075/091 075/092 075 04453 GNV BB 072/093 073/094 073 04353 OCF BB 073/093 073/094 073 04353 .JAX... .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. MZ/JH
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 58 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:47 UTC.
Event by event
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Lightning
- A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Lightning Strike in Utah, July 25, 2002
- Heat in Missouri, July 25, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, July 25 to 26, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 25, 2002
- Hail in Nebraska, July 25, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, July 25, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Idaho, July 25, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Utah, July 25, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Texas, July 25, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 25, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 25, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 25, 2002
More
Every storm in Florida in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, July 2002
Sources
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: 5306801.