2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 3, 2:00 PM EST, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 300 PM EDT MON JUN 3 2002 CURRENTLY: MOSTLY TO PARTLY SUNNY AND HOT. DURING EARLY AFTERNOON TALLAHASSEE AREA TEMPS RANGED FROM UPPER 90S TO 105 DEGREES INCLUDING AIRPORT 97...CROSS CITY 98...WCTC AND CANOPY OAKS SCHOOL 100...FSU 101...THOMASVILLE AND OAK RIDGE SCHOOL 103...AND BROGAN MUSEUM AND CAIRO GA 105 DEGREES. DEW POINTS RANGING FROM 65 VALDOSTA GA AREA TO 75 ALONG PANHANDLE COAST. HEAT INDICES SHOT UP TO 105-109 AND UPDATED ZFP TO INCORPORATE HEAT INDICE HEADLINE FOR EACH ZONE. SATELLITE SHOWS SOME CU 4-6K FROM SEA BREEZE...AND AC 10K AND CIRRUS FROM DISTANT WCNTRL GULF LOW AND THIS HAS PUT LID OF MAX TEMPS. LAST HOURLY OBS SHOW TEMPS BEGINNING TO DROP SO NO NEED TO CONSIDER HEAT ADVISORY. DISCUSSION: MID-UPPER RIDGE CENTERED ACROSS FORECAST AREA COMPRESSING HEAT AND CLOUD DEVELOPMENT ALLOWING FOR ANOTHER STIFLING AFTERNOON. CLOUDS DEVELOPED ALONG TYPE 2 (ENE) SEA BREEZE BUT SO FAR SHOW LITTLE OR NO VERTICAL DEVELOPMENT. PER VIS SATELLITE...SEA BREEZE SEEMS BEST DEVELOPED ALONG COAST FROM BAY WNW THRU WALTON COUNTY AND THIS POSES BEST CHANCE FOR LATE AFTERNOON/EVENING PRECIP AS BOUNDARY MOVES NORTH. WITH HIGH TEMPS...CAPES QUITE HIGH. SOME FORCING ALSO POSSIBLE LATER ALONG INTERIOR ERN BIG BEND BUT COVERAGE SHUD BE QUITE LOW. ALL GUIDANCE SHOWS WCNTRAL GULF LOW AND H5 RIDGE TO DRIFT EWD THRU SHORT TERM PERIOD. WEAK HIGH PRESSURE OVER GULF YIELDS TO HIGH PRES BUILDING ALONG E COAST...EXPECT ANOTHER TYPE 2 SEA BREEZE TOMORROW WITH LCL GRADS A TAD STRONGER. THIS VERIFIED BY ALL MODEL 1000-700 MB WINDS/850-500 MB RH PLOTS. THIS ADDED WWD EXTENT OF MOISTURE COMBINED WITH EWD DRIFT OF H5 HIGH SHOULD ENCOURAGE TOMORROW A LITTLE MORE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE... VERTICAL CLOUD DEVELOPMENT... INCREASED CHANCES OF PRECIP AND COOLER TEMPS. THIS CONFIRMED BY MODEL SOUNDING PWATS AND TIME HEIGHT X-SECTIONS. THIS TREND SHUD CONT INTO WEEKEND WITH MAX TEMPS LOWERING A FEW DEGREES AND POPS INCREASING ABOUT 10 PCT EACH DAY. FORECAST:WILL CONT 3 ZONE ZFP WITH FLA GROUPED TOGETHER. MODEL TEMPS IN CLOSE AGREEMENT AND WILL BLEND. STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY ABOUT FUTURE OF ABOVE GULF LOW. SOME MODEL DISAGREEMENT WITH MRF/AVN DEVELOPING THE LOW WHILE ETA LOOKS TO GENERATE A TROF BUT EITHER WAY...ANY DEVELOPEMNT WILL BE SLOW SO IMPACT ON LOCAL AREA WILL BE GRADUAL. MID-UPPER RIDGE MOVES EWD IN RESPONSE TO NEXT CONUS TROF TO REACH WRN MOST LOCAL AREA LATE FRIDAY OR EARLY SATURDAY. AVN/MRF MOST AGRESSIVE IN BRINGING TROF AND DRAGGING ASSOCD COLD FRONT WITH US. EITHER WAY...LOW LEVEL LOCAL FLOW TO VEER BEGINNING ON WEDNESDAY. THIS WILL INTRODUCE INCREASINGLY DEEP LYR MOISTURE AND MAINTAIN MID-HI SCT CONVECTION ACROSS AREA THRU AT LEAST SATURDAY. MARINE: NO HEADLINES. AFTERNOON BUOYS CONT WINDS AOB 5 MPH AND SEAS AOB 2 FEET. SEE LITTLE CHANGE NEXT FEW DAYS SO ONE ZONE FITS ALL LOOKS GOOD. FIRE WX: NO HEADLINES. RH VALUES WILL DIP BELOW 35 PERCENT ACROSS THE INLAND COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL SEA BREEZE CROSS BUT WILL FALL SHORT OF DURATIONS. PRELIM NUMBERS... TLH 071/095 072/091 0334 PFN 075/089 074/086 0324 DHN 073/095 072/090 0334 ABY 073/095 072/091 0334 VLD 071/097 071/092 0334 .TLH... .AL...NONE. .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. BLOCK
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 7 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:23 UTC.
2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Dime size hail fell at Old Bainbridge Road and Interstate 10. Reported by a off duty non-NWS employee.
Quarter size hail fell on Little Osprey Drive. Reported by an off duty NWS meteorologist.
Trees fell on power lines. Subsequent power outage disrupted water supply to the Sweetwater community. Reported by the Liberty County Sheriff.
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: 5300707, 5300784, 5300785.