4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 12, 1:45 PM EST, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 145 PM EST TUE MAR 12 2002 SYNOPSIS: LATEST WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS POTENT UPPER TROUGH OVER LOWER MS VALLEY W/ H5 CENTER MOVING ESE INTO SW MS. SURFACE LOW NEAR MSY W/ WARM FRONT ENE INTO CENTRAL SC. WIDESPREAD BAND OF ACTIVE CONVECTION CONTINUES TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE UPPER LOW, AIDED BY UPPER DIVERGENCE ALOFT. REGIONAL 88DS SHOW ISOLATED SEVERE TSTMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER SE AL AHEAD OF CONVECTIVE BAND, WHICH IS ACQUIRING LINE ECHO WAVE PATTERN CHARACTERISTICS. ISOLATED DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THREAT WILL CONTINUE THRU THE AFTN AS THESE TSTMS MOVE THRU THE PANHANDLE & SE AL. OTHERWISE, WARM & MOIST SLY FLOW IN WARM SECTOR W/ TEMPS IN THE 70S. MODELS/FCST: UPPER TROUGH OVER GULF COAST STATES PROGGED TO MOVE EWD TONIGHT W/ COLD CORE CENTER PASSING OVER FL ZONES. AVN MORE ROBUST THAN ETA/NGM W/ THIS FEATURE. TROUGH EXITS THE SERN U.S. COAST WED, REPLACED BY SHORTWAVE RIDGE. A WEAK SHORTWAVE TROUGH OVER NRN MEXICO MOVES NEWD INTO LOWER TN VALLEY THU NIGHT, BUT SHOULD HAVE NO IMPACT ON OUR CWFA. SURFACE LOW & FRONT FROM MS INTO GULF MOVES EWD INTO WRN ZONES THIS EVE & EXITS THE ERN ZONES BY WED AM W/ ASSOCIATED PCPN ENDING FROM W TO E. MODELS SHOW WRAP-AROUND MOISTURE LIFTING NEWD AWAY FROM CWFA & CLOUDS DECREASING WED. WEAK HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE SETTLES OVER THE GULF WED NIGHT & SHIFTS EWD THU W/ LIGHT SLY FLOW. FOR POPS TONIGHT, WILL GO W/ LIKELY TO CATEGORICAL, BASED ON RADAR TRENDS. NIL POPS FOR REMAINDER OF SHORT-TERM PERIOD. A BLEND OF NGM/AVN MOS GUIDANCE TEMPS PREFERRED. EXTENDED (SAT-TUE): PROGRESSIVE ZONAL PATTERN W/ PACIFIC FRONT DROPPING INTO CNTRL GA/AL SAT, STALLING SAT NIGHT, THEN LIFTING N AS WARM FRONT SUN AS POTENT UPPER SYSTEM EJECTS NEWD FROM PLAINS INTO GREAT LAKES MON. WILL INTRODUCE SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS FOR AL/GA ZONES SUN. COLD FRONT SWEEPS EWD THRU THE CWFA MON-MON NIGHT W/ WEAK HIGH PRESSURE RETURNING TUE. TEMPS WILL AVERAGE 5-10 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. MARINE: NO HIGHLIGHTS. BORDERLINE SCEC CONDITIONS TONIGHT AS LOW AND WEAK COLD FRONT PASS THRU LOCAL WATERS & WIND SHIFT TO W/NW. WLY WINDS WED BECOME LIGHT & VARIABLE WED NIGHT. WINDS BECOME SLY THU & CONTINUE INTO THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. FIRE WEATHER: NO CONCERNS. PRELIM NUMBERS: TLH 055/075 048/079 8000 PFN 057/070 053/075 7000 DHN 054/073 051/077 7000 ABY 055/072 050/078 8000 VLD 057/075 050/080 8000= .TLH... .AL...NONE. .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. MAJ
ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161-122100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1100 AM EST TUE MAR 12 2002 AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE COMBINED WITH LOW PRESSURE AND A COLD FRONT FROM MISSISSIPPI TO THE WESTERN GULF WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE GULF COAST STATES DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS. AS THIS SYSTEM APPROACHES THE TRI-STATE AREA LATER TODAY...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP. THE PRECIPITATION WILL END FROM WEST TO EAST OVERNIGHT. THE AIRMASS AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY MOIST AND UNSTABLE. WHILE A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BRIEFLY REACH SEVERE LIMITS WITH DAMAGING WINDS...ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. IN ADDITION...SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. AMOUNTS ACROSS THE TRI-STATE AREA AVERAGE AROUND AN INCH...WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF TWO INCHES POSSIBLE. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED FROM TORRENTIAL RAINS OVER A WEEK AGO...HEAVY RAINS MAY CAUSE MINOR FLOODING IN THE NORMALLY FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SKYWARN SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR UPDATED FORECASTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. OVER THE COASTAL WATERS...SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-WATER LIGHTING AND ROUGH SEAS. THEREFORE...BOATERS ARE ADVISED TO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE SPECIAL MARINE WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE VIA OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TLH/ OR LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS. MAJ
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A double wide trailer was destroyed, a roof was blown off a house, and trees were toppled. Reported by the Panama City News Herald.
Dime size hail near the coast. Reported by the Bay County EMA.
Trees down at Sand Hill. Reported by the Bay County EMA.
The roof of an airport hanger was blown off and destroyed a nearby plane. A platform in front of a car dealership fell across power lines on Lafayette Street. Reported by the Jackson County EMA.
A building was destroyed. Reported by the Gulf 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, March 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: 5285639, 5285640, 5285641, 5285642, 5285643.