Name: Damaging Wind in Florida, July 4, 2002
Start: 2002-07-04T16:30
End: 2002-07-04T16:30
Location: Florida

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $2,000
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 4, 2:30 PM EST, 2 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 2:30 PM EST, 2 hours before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
330 PM EDT THU JUL 04 2002

VORT LOBES DROPPING SOUTH ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND
AROUND BROAD UPPER LOW...HELPING TO ENHANCE GULF COAST STORMS. WEAK
NVA OVER CWA...CAP...AND PREVIOUS MID LEVEL CLOUD COVER (WHICH
DELAYED SURFACE HEATING) HELPED DELAY CONVECTION. BUT WSR 88D
SHOWING THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY ERUPTING FROM DAYTONA TO THE SUWANNEE
VALLEY. LATEST RUC KEEPS NVA OVER THE AREA THIS EVE...BUT FEEL GOOD
LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE AND INSTABILITY SHOULD OVERCOME THE NVA AND
SHOULD SEE A ROUND OF SCATTERED STORMS MAINLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON
INTO THIS EVE. MESO-ETA INDICATING BEST CONVERGENCE NEAR I-95 THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVE AND THIS WILL BE THE MAIN FOCUS FOR STORMS.
HOWEVER STEERING WINDS ARE LIGHT AND STORMS WILL BE SLOW MOVERS
RESULTING IN TRAIN ECHOING OF CELLS...OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES...AND
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. CANNOT RULE OUT POSSIBLE WET MICROBURSTS.
NOT MUCH CHANGE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...UPPER LOW CONTINUES DRAPED
JUST EAST OF THE AREA WITH MID LEVEL IMPULSES DROPPING SOUTH. A WEAK
SFC LOW DOES FORM IN FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND MOVES WEST. SHOULD SEE A
CONTINUATION OF MAINLY DIURNAL CONVECTION NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS WITH
BEST CONVERGENCE FROM AROUND FLAGLER TO VALDOSTA. ON SUNDAY...NVA
MOVING IN FROM NE AND WIND SHIFT TO SE SHOULD HELP SUPPRESS STORMS
IN SE GA AND EXTREME NE FL SO WILL LOWER POPS THERE. WILL KEEP
HIGHEST POPS NEAR GULF COAST.

PRELIM
AMG BB 070/092 070/090 070 08453
SSI BB 072/088 072/087 072 08343
JAX BB 070/090 071/091 071 08453
SGJ BB 073/088 074/089 074 08453
GNV TB 070/089 069/090 069 08464
OCF TB 070/089 069/090 069 08463=

.JAX...
.GA...NONE.
.FL...NONE.

PP

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 4, 4:30 PM EST, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE, FL
530 PM EDT THU JUL 4 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0530 PM    ST AUGUSTINE 10 W         FL   WIND DAMAGE
07/04/02   ST JOHNS                       POWER LINES DOWN DUE
                                          TO HIGH WINDS NEAR
                                          I-95 AND SR 207

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, St. Johns

When: July 4, 4:30 PM EST
Where: St. Johns County, 5 mi W of Vermont Hgts
Property damage: $2,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 29.800, -81.483

Large trees down on power lines.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

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The same day elsewhere

More

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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: 5306608.