1 flood, 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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 30, 12:55 PM EST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 155 PM EDT SUN JUN 30 2002 WET PATTERN WILL PERSIST FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AS DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL REMAIN OVER THE REGION. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE EAST OF FLORIDA ALLOWING BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW TO VEER AND BECOME SOUTHERLY ON MONDAY. DAYTIME HEATING AND WEST COAST SEABREEZE WILL BE THE MAIN FOCUS FOR AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. DUE TO SOUTHERLY WIND FLOW PARALLEL TO THE WEST COAST SEABREEZE...COULD SEE SOME TRAINING OF THUNDERSTORMS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...MAINLY NORTH OF TAMPA TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL DROP OVER NORTH FLORIDA MONDAY NIGHT AS SURFACE RIDGE AXIS BECOMES ORIENTED EAST/WEST ACROSS THE FLORIDA STRAITS. THIS WILL ALLOW MEAN WIND FLOW TO BECOME SOUTHWEST TO WEST WHICH WILL PROMOTE LATE NIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP OVER THE EASTERN GULF OF MEXICO AND MOVE LOCALLY ONSHORE DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. AGAIN...COULD SEE SOME TRAINING OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...MAINLY ALONG COASTAL COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL SPREAD INLAND DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON TUESDAY WITH POPS REMAINING RELATIVELY HIGH. SOUTHWEST TO WEST BOUNDARY LAYER WIND FLOW WILL PERSIST THROUGH SUNDAY WHICH WILL CONTINUE TREND OF LATE NIGHT/EARLY MORNING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE COAST SPREADING INLAND DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON. THIS WILL KEEP OVERNIGHT MIN TEMPS SEVERAL DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL DUE TO FLOW OFF THE GULF. MARINE...WINDS AND SEAS LESS THAN 15 KNOTS AND SEAS LESS THAN 4 FEET THROUGH THE PERIOD. PRELIM S: BKV 072/087 073/088 3746 TPA 075/087 077/088 3756 GIF 074/089 074/089 3736 SRQ 074/087 076/088 3756 FMY 075/089 075/089 4746= TBW...NONE. OGLESBY
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Urban and small stream flooding stalled cars on U.S. 17 and in Mulberry.
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: 5304637.