1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Jun 18, 2:45 PM EST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 345 PM EDT TUE JUN 18 2002 LOOKS LIKE THE SYNOPTIC PATTERN WHICH PROVIDED SOME AREAS THIS MORNING WITH MORE WELCOME RAIN WILL RELAX OVERNIGHT...LEADING TO A MORE DIFFUSE RAIN PATTERN WITH A FEW TSTMS. FLOW WILL GRADUALLY TURN TO THE SE IN THE LOW LEVELS WITH TIME...WHICH WILL FLIP THE BEST CHC FOR RAINS BACK TO THE LATE AFTN/EVE TO CLOSE THE WEEK. DAILY LIGHTNING STORMS WILL BE THE RULE. MODELS ARE IN BETTER AGREEMENT TODAY AS THE AVN FINALLY LETS GO OF CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK AND ETA/NGM TRENDS ARE SIMILAR. SHORT TERM: BEST JET ENERGY LOOKS TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE N 1/3 OF THE CWFA OVERNIGHT. MORE CONVECTION...THOUGH WEAKER THAN PAST DAYS...IS DEVELOPING IN THE E CENTRAL GULF...AND EXPECT RESIDUAL EFFECTS TO PRODUCE MORE (GENERALLY LIGHT) RAINS ESPECIALLY FROM TAMPA BAY N OVERNIGHT. WILL CONTINUE TO MENTION AN ISOLD TSTM. CANT RULE OUT SOME CONVECTION FARTHER S...SO WILL RETAIN LOW PCPN CHC HERE AS WELL. WED IS THE TRANSITION DAY...SO EXPECT BETTER SEA BREEZE AND BOUNDARY COLLISIONS. WITH BEST MOISTURE ACROSS THE N WILL CARRY LKLY PCPN HERE AND SCT ELSEWHERE. TEMPS WILL WARM A BIT...BUT STILL A HAIR UNDER NORMAL AS SOME SOLAR ENERGY WILL GO INTO EVAPORATION. THEREAFTER...LOOKS TO BE A CONTINUED ACTIVE PERIOD AS 500 MB WEAKNESSES REMAIN LOCKED UNDERNEATH THE FIRST HEAT RIDGE OF THE SUMMER FOR THE EAST AND MIDWEST...A RIDGE WHICH BRIDGES OVER INTO THE WESTERN ATLC. SFC-700 MB FLOW WILL TURN SE AND PIN DEEP MOISTURE OVER THE PENINSULA INTO THE GULF. CERTAINLY COULD SEE LKLY PCPN EACH AFTN/EVE...BUT WILL GO WITH THE CLIMATOLOGICAL 50/50 PROBS RIGHT THROUGH THE PERIOD. MARINE: AVN HAS BACKED OFF ON SFC WINDS JUST A TAD THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD...SO WELL BACK OFF JUST A BIT AS WELL. THIS LIKELY RELATED TO A SLIGHTLY WEAKER BERMUDA RIDGE THAN EARLIER FCST. AFTN NEAR SHORE SEA BREEZES MAY DEVELOP...BUT THEYLL BE VERY LATE AND WILL LEAVE OUT OF FCST FOR NOW FOR THU-SUN PERIOD. FIRE WX: WITH THE RAINS CONTINUING SATURATING THE SOILS AND WETTING THE SHORT- TERM FUELS...SPRING FIRE WX SEASON MAY WELL BE OVER. NO HIGHLIGHTS. FYI...MIA/MLB/TLH/JAX/EYW...IF INTERSITE COORD FUNCTION IS WORKING... WE HAVE GFE GRIDS FOR YOUR PERUSAL. PRELIM NUMBERS: BKV 070/088 070/091 5645 TPA 073/090 073/091 5545 GIF 072/090 072/091 3535 SRQ 073/089 073/091 5545 FMY 073/091 073/092 4545 .TBW...NONE. 88/GOLDSMITH
MARINE LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
508 PM EDT TUE JUN 18 2002
TIME(EDT) .....MARINE SUBZONE.... GMZ ...EVENT/REMARKS...
......MARINE ZONE......
0840 AM TAMPA BAY 830 WATERSPOUT
06/18/02 TAMPA BAY WATERS WATERSPOUT OBSERVED 4
MILES SOUTHEAST OF MACDILL
AIR FORCE BASE IN TAMPA
BAY. REPORTED BY MACDILL
AFB WEATHER OBSERVER.
JCMThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning hit a 230,000 volt switchyard a few hundred feet from the nuclear power plant and knocked out one of the plant's dual power feeds.
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, June 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: 5298527.