Name: Funnel Cloud in Florida, June 12, 2002
Start: 2002-06-12T11:55
End: 2002-06-12T11:55
Location: Florida

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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

Open the live radar over this ground

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
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 Jun 12, 8:40 AM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 8:40 AM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
940 AM EDT WED JUN 12 2002

PUBLIC...UPPER TROF CONTINUES PARKED ACROSS THE SE U.S. COAST AND
INTO THE S GOMEX. DRY AIR ALOFT OVER MOST OF THE CWA THIS MORNING.
WK LOW (AT THE SFC THRU AT LEAST 5K FEET) PLAYING HAVOC WITH
LOW-LEVEL WIND FIELD...AS WELL AS PRODUCING CLOUDS AND SHOWERS NEAR
THE CENTER. ONLY MODEL TO REALLY PICK UP ON THIS CIRCULATION IS THE
AVN...AND IT SHOOTS IT OFF TO THE NE LATER TODAY. STILL DONT SEE
MUCH MOVEMENT IN LOW...SO THIS WILL REMAIN A FLY IN THE OINTMENT
THRU MOST OF THE DAY. WILL BUMP UP POPS AND CLOUDS A BIT FOR NE FL
COAST...OTHERWISE LITTLE CHANGE.

MARINE...MAY NEED TO SPLIT GROUPS DUE TO SFC LOW POSITION AND ITS
EFFECT ON FLOW. NO CHANGE IN SPEEDS AND PRECIP EXPECTED.

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

CARROLL

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 12, 10:45 AM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes before

FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-122200-

NORTHEAST FLORIDA/SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1145 AM EDT WED JUN 12 2002

...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY...

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THIS
AFTERNOON...MAINLY OVER NORTHEAST FLORIDA EAST OF INTERSTATE 75.
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY SOUTHEAST OF A
JACKSONVILLE BEACH TO PALATKA LINE. HOWEVER...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS
EXPECTED TODAY SO SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAX.

CARROLL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 119 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:56 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.

Funnel Cloud, Flagler

When: June 12, 11:55 AM EST
Where: Flagler County, Mantanzas
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 29.471, -81.293 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

2 Funnel clouds sighted.

What these are

Funnel Cloud: A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Florida in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Florida, June 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: 5300874.