1 thunderstorm wind, 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 29, 2:01 PM EST, 3 hours 44 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
301 PM EDT MON JUL 29 2002
CURRENTLY...SKIES PARTLY SUNNY EXCEPT WHERE TSTMS HAVE FIRED OFF
OVER THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST PORTION OF THE CWFA AND ALSO THE FAR
NORTH END. TEMPS UPPER 80S TO NEAR 90. LIGHT WINDS ARE STARTING TO
SHIFT TO ONSHORE ALONG THE COAST.
FORECAST...MODELS IN FAIRLY CLOSE AGREEMENT BUT AVN SEEMS TO BE
HANDLING THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEMS AND MOISTURE FIELDS BETTER SO
WILL USE THAT AS THE BASIS OF FORECAST. UPPER LOW NEAR THE FLORIDA
KEYS THIS AFTERNOON TO MOVE NORTHWEST/ ACROSS OUR GULF WATERS/
THROUGH TUESDAY BEFORE REACHING THE FL PANHANDLE TUESDAY NIGHT AND
EARLY WED. ASSOCIATED PVA AND INCREASED MOISTURE ALONG EAST SIDE OF
UPPER LOW SHOULD HELP TO ENHANCE PCPN ODDS TUESDAY BUT WITH HIGHER
MOISTURE STAYING SOUTH OF OUR CWFA AMD THE UPPER LOW MOVING AWAY
WILL KEEP POPS AT 50 TUESDAY WITH 30 INTO THE EVENING. UPPER LOW
BECOMES STATIONARY AND ELONGATES/ NE-SW/ ACROSS NORTHERN FLORIDA
THROUGH THURSDAY WITH ENOUGH MOISTURE AND LIFT FOR POPS IN THE
40/50 PERCENT RANGE WED & THU. SURFACE RIDGE AXIS ACROSS THE NORTH
END OF THE CWFA THIS AFTERNOON WILL SLOWLY SHIFT SOUTH WITH GENERALLY
LIGHT VARIABLE FLOW DOMINATED BY AFTERNOON SEA BREEZES...RIDGE AXIS
REACHES SOUTHERN FLORIDA BY THURSDAY WITH LOW LEVEL FLOW BECOMING
WEST AND SOUTHWEST...WHICH WILL SHIFT TIMING OF PCPN FROM AFTERNOON
AND EVENING TO...MORNING/EARLY AFTERNOON COAST AND AFTERNOON/EARLY
EVENING INLAND AND SOUTH. MOS TEMP GUIDANCE HAS BEEN IN GOOD
AGREEMENT BUT AGAIN WILL LEAN TOWARD MAV.
GOING INTO THE EXTENDED PERIOD...UPPER TROUGHINESS CONTINUES
OVER NORTHERN FLORIDA AS SURFACE RIDGE STAYS TO OUR SOUTH AND A
FRONT MOVES INTO THE SOUTHEAST U.S. I WILL KEEP ZONES PARTLY CLOUDY
WITH CHC PCPN AND NEAR CLIMO TEMPS.
MARINE...AS SURFACE RIDGE AXIS WORKS ITS WAY SOUTHWARD OVER GULF
WATERS VARIABLE WINDS WITH AFTERNOON SEAS BREEZES WILL GIVE WAY TO
A MORE WEST AND SOUTHWEST FLOW ALTHOUGH REMAINING AT OR BELOW 10KT.
FIRE WEATHER...NO HIGHLIGHTS.
PRELIMINARY NUMBERS:
BKV 070/091 070/090 3534
TPA 078/091 077/091 3534
GIF 076/093 075/093 3534
SRQ 075/091 074/090 3534
FMY 075/092 075/092 3535
.TBW...NONE.
09/RKRMARINE LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
316 PM EDT MON JUL 29 2002
TIME(EDT) .....MARINE SUBZONE.... GMZ ...EVENT/REMARKS...
......MARINE ZONE......
0358 PM CHARLOTTE HARBOR 856 40 KT MARINE TSTM WIND
07/29/02 BONITA BCH-ENGLWD 20NM REPORTED BY PUNTA GORDA
ASOS KPGD.
DSPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
358 PM EDT MON JUL 29 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0333 PM PORT CHARLOTTE FL WIND DAMAGE
07/29/02 CHARLOTTE MULTIPLE LARGE TREE LIMBS
DOWN AND SEVERAL BUSINESSES
HAD SIGNS BLOWN DOWN.
REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTER.
0340 PM NORTH PORT FL WIND DAMAGE
07/29/02 SARASOTA TREES BLOWN DOWN. REPORTED
BY STORM SPOTTER.
DSThe Tampa radar (KTBW), 70 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:45 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong winds downed trees and billboards, tore the roof off a mobile home, and part of a roof of a permanent home.
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: 5303426.