1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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 Melbourne, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 2, 1:30 PM EST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 230 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002 CURRENTLY... RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE STRETCHES FROM NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO ... ACROSS THE CENTRAL FLORIDA PENINSULA AND INTO THE WEST ATLANTIC. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER...KSC...WIND TOWERS SHOWING THE SEA BREEZE STARTING TO DEVELOP RIGHT AT THE COASTLINE WHILE KSC WIND PROFILERS WERE INDICATING WEAKENING WESTERLY WINDS TO AROUND 1000 FEET. VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGES SHOWED CUMULUS FIELD FORMING OVER THE FORECAST AREA AND THE WEST COAST SEA BREEZE PUSHING INLAND TOWARD MARION AND SUMTER COUNTIES. WATER VAPOR SATELLITE IMAGERY WAS DEPICTING 500MB TROUGH COMING ASHORE U.S. WEST COAST WHICH WAS HELPING TO BUILD THE 500MB RIDGE OVER THE CENTRAL U.S.. OFFSHORE WEATHER BUOY 009 WAS RECORDING SOUTHWEST WINDS AROUND 5 KNOTS AND 2 FOOT SEAS WHILE BUOY 010 WAS RECORDING WEST WINDS 10 TO 12 KNOTS AND 3 FOOT SEAS. MODELS PAINT BASICALLY THE SAME PICTURE OUT TO 48-60 HOURS...THE WEAK RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE MOVES LITTLE CREATING A WEAK PRESSURE GRADIENT CONDUCIVE TO SEA BREEZE FORMATION EACH DAY. DAILY VARIATION OF PENETRATION WOULD DEPEND ON LOCATION OF RIDGE AXIS. TONIGHT...BASED ON VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGES AND CURRENT SYNOPTIC DATA TODAYS SEA BREEZE COLLISION SHOULD OCCUR OVER INLAND VOLUSIA ...SEMINOLE AND EASTERN HALF OF ORANGE AND OSCEOLA COUNTIES LATE AFTERNOON WITH STORMS PERSISTING INTO THE EVENING. MONDAY...HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE AXIS STAYS OVER CENTRAL FLORIDA WHILE UPPER FLOW BEGINS TO SHIFT TO THE NORTHEAST YIELDING SEA BREEZE COLLISIONS OVER THE CENTER OF THE PENINSULA. TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...RIDGE AXIS SHIFTS NORTH TUESDAY AND STAYS THERE THROUGH FRIDAY. DEEPENING EAST TO SOUTHEAST FLOW SHOULD PRODUCE LATE NIGHT COASTAL SHOWERS...AND PUSH THE SEA BREEZE INLAND QUICKLY DURING THE DAY...CONFINING MOST OF THE CONVECTION OVER THE INTERIOR CWA. THURSDAY NIGHT AND BEYOND...LOW PRESSURE TROUGH MOVES ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST AND GULF OF MEXICO AND OVER FLORIDA BY FRIDAY. AVN WANTS TO CLOSE OFF A LOW OVER SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ON FRIDAY. LONGER TERM MODELS MAINLY MRF...ECMWF AND UKMET...FORM WAVES ALONG THE TROUGH AS IT SITS OVER THE EAST COAST SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. FOR NOW...WILL NOT STRAY FROM ONGOING EXTENDED FORECAST. MARINE...WEAK WESTERLY PRESSURE GRADIENT TONIGHT AND INTO MONDAY WHEN THE RIDGE AXIS SHIFTS NORTH OF THE FORECAST AREA AND WINDS TURN AROUND TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST THROUGH THURSDAY. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... DAB BB 070/092 071/091 071 -1- MCO BB 071/095 072/094 072 122 MLB BB 072/090 074/090 074 -1- .MLB...NONE. PUBLIC/MARINE...WIMMER AVIATION/FIRE WX...BLOTTMAN
AMZ550-555-570-575-FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-141-144-147- 022100- EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 1115 AM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002 ...SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING STORMS...MAINLY SOUTHERN AREAS... ...RIP CURRENT HAZARD... A 5 TO 10 MPH WESTERLY WIND WILL DELAY SEA BREEZE FORMATION UNTIL EARLY AFTERNOON FROM INDIAN RIVER COUNTY NORTH...WHILE NEAR CALM WINDS WILL ALLOW THE SEA BREEZE TO FORM BY NOON ALONG THE SAINT LUCIE AND MARTIN COUNTY COASTLINE. SUBSIDING AIR IN THE MIDDLE AND UPPER ATMOSPHERE WILL HINDER STORM DEVELOPMENT FROM OSCEOLA AND INDIAN RIVER COUNTIES NORTH. THE BEST CHANCES FOR LIGHTNING STORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE OVER SAINT LUCIE...MARTIN AND OKEECHOBEE COUNTIES DUE TO AN EARLIER ONSET OF THE SEA BREEZE AND INTERACTIONS WITH LAKE OKEECHOBEE BREEZE BOUNDARIES. STEERING WINDS WILL MOVE STORMS IN A SOUTHERLY DIRECTION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LIGHTNING WILL BE THE PRIMARY STORM HAZARD TODAY. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE MANY MILES AWAY FROM ITS PARENT STORM AND MAKES EVERY SINGLE THUNDERSTORM A POTENTIAL KILLER. MOVE INDOORS IF THUNDER IS HEARD OR IF STORM CLOUDS BEGIN TO DEVELOP. IN ADDITION...WEATHER AND OCEANIC CONDITIONS WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE A RIP CURRENT THREAT THIS AFTERNOON. THE THREAT WILL BE GREATEST BETWEEN 200 PM AND 900 PM DURING THE OUTGOING TIDE. CHECK WITH AREA BEACH PATROLS FOR LOCAL CONDITIONS. THE GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS AVAILABLE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MLB/HWOFILES/HWOMAIN.HTML WIMMER
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines and damaged the roof of a mobile home in the Bassville and The Villages area near Lady Lake.
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: 5302804, 5302805.