Thunderstorm Wind, Hardee
- When
- July 6, 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Hardee County, Wauchula
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 27.550, -81.817
Roof damage to three homes with tin roofs and several trees down.
Damaging Wind in Florida, July 6, 2002
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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
- $10,000
- 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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 6, 8:50 AM EST, 7 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 8:50 AM EST, 7 hours 10 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 950 AM EDT SAT JUL 6 2002 WV SATELLITE IMAGERY DEPICTS UPPER LOW CONTINUING TO DIG INTO THE GULF. 06Z MODELS STILL SHOW VORT MAX DROPPING S OVER THE CENTRAL FL PENINSULA TODAY WITH SOME SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR AND NVA OVER THE NORTH. BUT THEY ARE NOT HANDLING AREA OF CONVECTION OVER SE GA TOO WELL RIDING ALONG SFC TROF STRETCHING FROM THE MIDATLANTIC COAST INTO THE DEEP SOUTH AND INTO THE NORTH CENTRAL GULF. OUTFLOW FROM THIS COMPLEX MAY INTERACT WITH SEABREEZE UP NORTH TO FIRE OFF SOME TSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AS MAIN CONVECTION IS HEADING MORE WESTERLY. WEAK SFC GRADIENT REMAINS OVER THE AREA. EXPECT WEST COAST SEA BREEZE TO HELP INITIATE CONVECTION AGAIN TODAY OVER THE REST OF THE AREA. MORNING SOUNDING AGAIN SHOWING SUMMERTIME ENVIRONMENT OF MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE OVER THE AREA. CONVECTION CONTINUES OVER THE COASTAL WATERS OF EASTERN GULF. FORECAST LOOKS ON TRACK ATTM WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR FOR ANY NEEDED UPDATES. MARINE...WEAK GRADIENT KEEPING WINDS AND SEAS WITHIN CURRENT PACKAGE. CONVECTION COVERED AS WELL...NO CHANGES EXPECTED. TBW...NONE. RD
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 60 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:01 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Missouri, July 6 to 9, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Nebraska, July 6, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Texas, July 6 to 8, 2002
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strikes in Oklahoma, July 6, 2002
- Flash Flood in Texas, July 6, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 6, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 6, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, July 6, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Georgia, July 6 to 7, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Texas, July 6, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 6, 2002
- Flash Flood in Texas, July 6, 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: 5303292.