1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. 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 25, 1:30 PM EST, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.
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
FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-252200- NORTHEAST FLORIDA/SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 1130 AM EDT THU JUL 25 2002 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP TODAY ACROSS THE AREA. HOWEVER...THE COVERAGE OF STORMS WILL BE LESS THAN IN PREVIOUS DAYS. THE PRIMARY IMPACTS WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. IN ADDITION...WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MPH AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE IN THE STRONGER STORMS. MOVEMENT OF THE ACTIVITY WILL GENERALLY BE TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. MARINERS ARE URGED TO SEEK SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY IF HAZARDOUS WEATHER APPROACHES. ISOLATED STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...AND SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO REPORT INCIDENTS OF FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAX. HESS
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 72 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:12 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Large trees down on house and power lines down. Crosby Lake Subdivision. Trees down crossing 160th 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: 5306799.