1 lightning, 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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 28, 8:00 PM EST, 25 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 900 PM EDT SUN JUL 28 2002 CURRENTLY...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY WINDING DOWN. A FEW PULSE STRONG STORMS OCCURRED THIS EVENING. 00Z TBW SOUNDING STILL RELATIVELY MOIST AND UNSTABLE WITH PW AROUND 1.85 INCHES...AND CAPES NEAR 3000 J/KG. NW/SE SFC RIDGE AXIS RUNS FROM N FL/S GA...SE TO NEAR DAB...THEN OFFSHORE INTO THE ATLC. WEST COAST SEA BREEZE STILL SITTING NEAR COAST...AND MAY SPAWN ISOLD SHOWERS FOR NEXT HOUR OR SO. --REST OF TONIGHT--- EXPECT STORMS TO BE MOSTLY OVER BY 10 PM. AN ISOLD STORM OR TWO POSSIBLE BETWEEN 10 PM AND MIDNIGHT GIVEN INSTABILITY AND PRESENCE OF LOW LEVEL BOUNDARIES. WILL ISSUE UPDATE TO REMOVE EVENING POPS WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. --MARINE-- ANY CONVECTION THAT MADE IT TO THE E GULF SEEMED TO DIE RAPIDLY THIS EVENING. NO BIG CHANGES EXPECTED FOR EVENING UPDATE AS WINDS REMAIN LIGHT. WILL TRY TO PIN DOWN WIND DIRECTION TONIGHT INSTEAD OF GOING VARIABLE. .TBW...NONE. MORALES
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
907 PM EDT SUN JUL 28 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0450 PM RIVERVIEW FL WIND DAMAGE
07/28/02 HILLSBOROUGH SEVERAL LARGE OAK TREES
WERE KNOCKED DOWN...TWO ON
A MOBILE HOME AND ANOTHER
ON AN AUTOMOBILE. CARPORT
AND PORTION OF A WOODEN
FENCE ALSO DAMAGED.
REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC VIA
FOX NEWS 13 AND BAY NEWS 9.
JTDThe Tampa radar (KTBW), 26 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:25 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck and disabled a vehicle on I75 near the I275 interchange.
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: 5303314.